January interview with sociologist Mimi Sheller on her book "Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene" from Duke University Press. Suggested by Jenica and Chuck.

2021 FAVORITE: Mimi Sheller / Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene

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Democracy Now! Friday, January 14, 2022

It is September 4th/2022 and I just learn that  Skelly from Israel Vibration passed away.  A couple years ago I wrote for Israel Vibration.  I like to share it with you. It’s called, From The Bush: Israel Vibration True Black Disabled Brotherhood

From The Bush: Israel Vibration True Black Disabled Brotherhood

Verse1
From the bush, they came like Moses
With dreadlocks but with no socks
From the school of hard knocks
They grew from the concrete like roses

Chorus
Before DJ Kool Herc    
Jamaica in the fifties Polio infected the island
Skelly, Wise & Apple are Israel Vibration
got kicked out of Mona Rehabilitation Center cause their religious beliefs in Rasta
homeless, poor & disabled
began to sing on the streets
now they are the Fathers of Reggae

Verse 2
Held onto their Rastafarian faith
Seeing them on stage
Three Black disabled men gave me faith
Their story got my inside boiling over with rage

Verse 3
Israel Vibration true Black disabled brotherhood
From Kingston to the Bronx
Roots Reggae gave beats to Hip-Hop
Three sets of crutches provided break beat like clip-clop clip clop
 
Chorus
Before DJ Kool Herc   
Jamaica in the fifties Polio infected the island
Skelly, Wise & Apple are Israel Vibration
got kicked out of Mona Rehabilitation Center cause their religious beliefs in Rasta
homeless, poor & disabled
began to sing on the streets
now they are the Fathers of Reggae

Verse 4
Today I’ll say
Israel Vibration please come my way
Show us that mirror that looks like us
From the streets to the stage in their story what’s on the next page

Outro
From the bush, they came like Moses
With dreadlocks but with no socks
From the school of hard knocks
They grew from the concrete like roses

Israel Vibration true Black disabled brotherhood
From Kingston to the Bronx
Roots Reggae gave beats to Hip-Hop
Three sets of crutches provided break beat like clip-clop clip clop

Today I’ll say
Israel Vibration please come my way
Show us that mirror that looks like us
From the streets to the stage in their story what’s on the next page


From the bush, they came like Moses
With dreadlocks but with no socks
From the school of hard knocks
They grew from the concrete like roses

Israel Vibration true Black disabled brotherhood
From Kingston to the Bronx
Roots Reggae gave beats to Hip-Hop
Three sets of crutches provided break beat like clip-clop clip clop


By Leroy  F  Moore Jr.
Remake for Skelly
Photo by @leeabelphotography
9/4/22

From The Bush: Israel Vibration True Black Disabled Brotherhood

I want to share it
Let me be your cupid
Shower you from up above
Nothing like Kripple love

In every position
Make it accessible need some lotion
So smooth take you to the moon
On the wings of a dove is Kripple love

I want to share it
Let me be your cupid
Shower you from up above
Nothing like Kripple love

Cerebral palsy is the destination
The g spot it’s your hand no more masturbation
The right speed is all i need
Love song in my CP speech

Hey you, girl
Welcome to my world
Bump n grind
It’s about time

You so fine
Candlelight dinner with red wine
Getting freaky under the moonlight
Until the sun rise

I want to share it
Let me be your cupid
Shower you from up above
Nothing like Kripple love

Cerebral palsy is the destination
The g spot it’s your hand no more masturbation
The right speed is all i need
Love song in my CP speech

Hey you, girl
Welcome to my world
Bump n grind
It’s about time

You so fine
Candlelight dinner with red wine
Getting freaky under the moonlight
Until the sun rise

By Leroy F. Moore Jr.
12/27/22

Kripple Love (Slow Jam)

This week we speak to Program Manager for KGNU Community Radio, and founder of the decades strong Hip Hop group Council of Word, Dave Ashton about the legacy of David Jolicoeur aka Trugoy the Dove, who passed away last week, and his groundbreaking Hip-Hop group De La Soul. 

We also have ‘Choice Words’ about this year’s Super Bowl.” We got ‘Just Stand Up’ and 'Just Sit Down’ awards to Ron DeSantis for banning books and being an awful governor and person and the U.S. alpine ski team for their climate change-themed uniforms they put out, bringing awareness to such an important issue. 

David Ashton 
https://councilofword.bandcamp.com/album/indignorance

Zirin, Why People Don’t Even Trust the Super Bowl
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/super-bowl-rigged-trust/

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Remembering David Jolicoeur aka Trugoy the Dove

Kripping The Kirriculum From The Roots

All this talk, pedagogies and books
Using rhymes and hooks
Can’t grow if you don’t get to the roots
Hip-Hop are the leaves of this tree

Teachers want to see pride
They might have to feel uncomfortable at times
Have to deal with their own racism & ableism
Because we know that most teachers are White

All this talk pedagogies and books
Using rhymes and hooks
Can’t grow if you don’t get to the roots
Hip-Hop are the leaves of this tree

Way before the birth of an industry
When the circus were not animals but humans
Behind bars and in cages
Don’t try to control the student’s rage

Let them feel their ancestors anger
That lead to a lot of creative answers
How they made a career
The moans of the Blues let them hear

Talk about Black respectability politics
That pushed out Black disabled men
From the church to the streets, it’s no trick
This is only the beginning and there’s no end

You can’t go pass Jazz
Way before Bluegrass
Al Hibbler marching with MLK Jr
Protest music in another era

Young, old don’t care about your age
Everybody was hip in the Jazz age
People thought Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a freak
So he rap it in Freaks For The Festival

This poem is for my peoples
No textbooks field trip to a freakshow
This is the the original Crip walk so let’s go
Tookie told me the truth

I can’t & don’t stand for the pledge of allegiance
Give me Colin Kaepernick
And F coons like Jay Z
Can’t make it to last letter in the alphabet, put me to sleep zzzz

Let’s get back to the subject
Krippling The Kirriculum
Evicting all White women
From special education

This is my creation
Kripping PE Fight the Power
To Fight Black Ableism
Got read of the White gaze
But Black people why r you still in a haze

What Black disabled man can’t be the teacher
All of you are internalize haters
We don’t need the White man
He played the old game, divide and conquer

Got us hypnotize
It’s not a surprise
When the pain becomes a 9 to 5
Even after Covid back to the old times

No not trump’s old time
While Apple kicks us into virtual future
Mother Nature was healing during Covid
No need for college campus everything is on zoom

Welcome to Kripdome
Once again
Kripping PE’s Welcome to the Terrordome
Krip-Hop is not your friend

Give out grades
And you all flunk
You just got punk
Still in a haze it’s called Krip-Hop funk

From the roots
Stumping with our steal braces
In our steel toe boots
Mace in your face

Can’t truss it
Watch your step
King Kunta with one foot
Got a bone to pick

Krip-Hop class
Taught by Mr. Glass
Looking sharp
While he kills your ass

Leroy, why you went dark
I learn by swimming with sharks
You, put me off of Norah’s arch
It’s what you did to me from the start

By The Black Kripple

Krippping The Kirriculum

Was it an inside job
Was it an undercover White man name bob
Did the Ford Foundation turned it into a 9 to 5 job
Was it academia or the mainstream media
Was it White disabled women
Did certain people get paid off
Was it divide and conquer
Did it explode from the inside out
Why nobody called it out
Was it that hush hush money
That split the community
Now it has been pimped out
By everyone except for Black and Brown
It’s even at the White House
Caught with the cheese trap like a mouse
Is it too late to save
They got Stacey on a quarter
She is shouting, “nooooo” from the grave
Who didn’t killed Disability Justice
Even the people who ate off of it
But remain silent
While the abuse ran rampant
Just sit back and watch the slaughter
Killing each other
Disability Justice is a corpse
Left to rot
Who who was it you
The question will never be answered

By The Black Kripple
11/17/23

Who Killed Disability Justice?!!

Dear Ancestor, Cedric Robinson,

First thank you for your work! I have learned so much. As a Black disabled man I have questions. I listened to your seminal book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition and I wonder what are your thoughts are about the Black disabled body and mind? I realize you are arguing against Karl Marx and Marxism so I wonder if you share Marx’s view on the disabled body and the social model of disability? I know in your time (1940-2016), the disability movement only started in the 1970’s. Knowing that you grew up in Oakland, California, I wonder did you know about the disability rights movement? You knew about the Black Panther Party so I wonder if you knew of Brad Lomax and the involvement in the disability movement? It’s interesting that you attended UC Berkeley in 1963 and were involved in campus activism for Black studies and advocating for Malcolm X to speak on campus because only a couple years later after your attendance came a White disabled young man, who organized a group of disabled, Rolling Quads (which I think they started out all White) and Ed Roberts of 1969. Interesting connection.

I want to return to your book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. I have noticed that Karl Marx had thoughts about the disabled body relating to capitalism. I won’t go deep into his perspective on the disabled body in capitalism, but in short because the disabled body was seen as a “non-worker,” his writings on the disabled body are basically seen as a result of pushing the non-disabled body until it becomes disabled through unsafe working conditions. Knowing that the social model of disability was created by a White UK man, as I have written in my thesis, I wonder how disability would be seen through the lens of the Black Radical Tradition? This is my work, to try to put your ideas into conversation with today’s growing Black disabled politics, activism, art, music and radical and academic thinking. By writing and organizing in the Black community, and in academia, my aim is to bring Black Studies together with Disability Studies with the radical goal of disability justice for Black and other marginalized communities worldwide.

R.I.P. Cedric Robinson

Dear Ancestor, Cedric Robinson

We speak with author and philosopher Joy James about their forthcoming book, Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons. The work is a compilation of essays and articles that looks at this phenomenon of militarized policing in urban areas and suggests ways to organize against it.

Due out in August from Pluto Press.

Joy James: Beyond Cop Cities

Like everything, things must come to an end so this is Krip-Hop Nation’s last episode in a series that we call Disabled & Black/Brown With/Striving For A Ph.D. Doctor, we interview Wilford Gomez is a Ph.D Student in Criticism and Culture at the University of Cambridge, Christ's College. He completed undergraduate studies at Haverford College. His research interests center disability, hip-hop, cultural, and performance studies to examine questions of identity, politics, representation, and self-expression.

Krip-Hop Nation Ph.D. Series Gomez from the UK

Black Kripple here with news, views, music, poetry, story-telling of people with disabilities from around the world and from myself and the latest from Krip-Hop Nation especially from Black and Brown people with disabilities.  Come get some of this!



Krip-Hop's Mission is to educate the music, media industries and general public about the talents, history, rights and marketability of Hip-Hop artists and other musicians with disabilities. Krip-Hop main objective is to get the musical talents of hip-hop artists with disabilities into the hands of media outlets, educators, and hip-hop, disabled and race scholars, youth, journalists and hip-hop conference coordinators. Krip-Hop Nation’s public education has many avenues i.e. Internet magazine’s columns, workshops, Internet radio show, publications and our famous mixtape series to name a few reporting on the latest news about musicians with disabilities.

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