My question is simple yet complex ..If you were an artist, like I am, and you wanted to create a mural in the community similar to the wall of respect, who would you select to be important portraits and personas to include in the image and why?

Funny you should ask that, there’s a major mural going up in my Hood, right up on King Dr. It’s a damn orgy of Integrationism. It’s a damn shrine to Non-Violence (ie: Anti-Self Defense). It’s a another Fetishization of all of the failed and treasonous leaders and ideologies that have been plaguing us for the last half century or more. It has the Usual Suspects: Obama, King, Mandela, and Malcolm X (who has no business along side...

What are your views with many African Americans believing protesting or marching has been successful at getting justice? What are your views with protesting being a form of changing the institution inside like Obama?

I guess if we can believe in God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost; believing in other fictions like securing Justice/Liberation through protesting, marching, and reforms isn’t such a stretch. (I know this is yet another cheap shot at religion, but fuck it, you gotta get cho shots in where you can.)The only way to destroy an Institution from the inside is when it was your intent to do so from the get go; you can’t change institutions from the...