Love, love and treat your neighbor as good as you would love and treat yourself. Truth, to speak too any underlying issue; speaking truth to it, acknowledging it and learning from it. Justice, standing up for way is right; standing up for those being treated unjustly; holding a light in the face of oppression while showing love without conditions.
This is what coming from a jazz and blues people is about. Jazz being the creative expression that covers the underlying oppression. The blues being how one feels, expressed lyrically: this is how I feel and this is why. Being able to reveal the truth through our love for the arts has always been apart of the black folk tradition.
Love and Justice: "Justice in part is what love looks like in piblic; because when you love folk no matter who or what they are, you hate the fact that their being treated unfairly, you loe the fact their being treated unjustly, you got to do something about it, it flows out of you, there;s so much care and love coming out of your heart, mind and soul, you can't stay still. (Dr. Cornel West)" This is what love and justice is about. Having the strength, fortitude, and will to care about the treatment of others in the face of the oppression or supreme majority, at the human level, even if their ideology may differ from yours.
Caring about one another despite religious differences, cultural differences, socio-economic differences, sex-based differences, and race-based differences. Keep it funky. Where there's funk there's truth; and where truth lay, love and justice will sustain itself.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment