My blog has transitioned to mainly music these days. Well, most of the time. But today, I turn back to the political.
Truth be told, this post is still about music—because the songs I write and even some of the covers that I do are rooted in a space where certain political and moral ideas are central.
There’s a guy named Royce White. If you know basketball, you recognize the name and maybe know a bit about his story. He was a force on the court, but he’s become a much bigger force off the court. The hardwood could not contain his breadth and boldness.
Unlike most white liberals with their BLM signs planted on their lawns, White actually walks his talk, rather than merely engaging in virtue signaling. And even better, can connect all the dots and indicts the kind of neoliberal dreck that most of you members of the so-called liberal/social justice crowd imbibe nightly via your censored news sources like CNN, MSNBC, the dreaded Facebook and its “fact-checkers,” the ‘gram.
The brother channels Malcolm X and all the great warriors standing for truth. And TPTB continue to try to censor and marginalize him. This might be a good point of entry into the realm of Royce White. He understands how “divide and conquer” works, as do I. I wrote a song about it and populist music addresses the topic quite extensively.
And because of what Brother White has been talking about (and I’ve been listening), I now know what he means when he says, “free the Uyghurs!”
For your edification, I’ll post this video (audio portion) of a talk that is more than 50-years-old, but still relevant to this discussion and the times we are living in. I recognize the definite similarities between black leaders like Malcolm X and Royce White.
Now, let’s tie this into music in closing.
There are a host of musical artists that sadly, I’ve followed and supported by buying their records and seeing their shows. I thought they had something to offer and even say to me. I was wrong. Most of them are effete liberals who use their platform for little that edifies and builds up. But, boy, are they good at the signaling of how virtuous they are. That’s a pretty good indicator that they are not. Patterson Hood of the Driveby Truckers would be one. Portland’s woo woo politics seems to have poisoned him. Jeff Tweedy of Wilco would be another. There are plenty of local artists, too, that are down with serving the dominant narrative and furthering the agenda of TPTB. I’ll leave it at that.
It’s easy to criticize and not put forth any solutions. White offers up a pretty clear path forward for the black community. These are also things that white people ought to focus on, too.
White states in an Instagram post that “Economic tyranny of the elite should be the number one focus of Black America. Next is the crony capitalism in government, of which the scope has grown far too big. In our own communities we must address family, crime and nationalism through a spiritual and philosophical renaissance…Not through gender and sex politics.” To that I say, “amen.”
In closing, so many people who constantly bleat “the science…the science,” in fact, don’t give two shits about the science. Case in point. Those denying and denigrating anyone who talks about natural immunity. Why isn’t this being discussed? Because it doesn’t further the agenda of Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden’s handlers, and the transhuman crowd like HHS secretary, Xavier Beccera) who want us all to be injected with an experimental shot that’s not had ample time to prove that it’s effective and more importantly, safe.
Here’s some science for you from Rand Paul (courtesy of Royce White’s IG page).
Better yet, I’ll post the video because I’m sure the snakes running IG will take this down.