Black Communications Project (1967)

[Music] black spre spring of 1967 the black students union of San Francisco State College moved through chairman Jimmy Garrett to bring ryer Leroy Jones to San Francisco to participate in what came to be known as the black communications project the black student the black man in White America making himself known knowing himself in the face of all kinds of enemies he strives to find his own this is true for all black people the communications projects were designed to move educate and Delight black people in the west the project brought together the black student union the brothers working at the black house and black Arts West these groups formed a working hole known for that time and for all times to come as the Black Arts of lion black Communications to cut through the gauze of devilish blankness raised around us in America to penetrate with black truth to Black brothers and sisters because we are all bogged down in the muck of White America white people many times speak through our people's mouths we need black Communications to speak to get through to get through to get through the black artist must recreate black people in the image of their strength and beauty but also recreate the devilish Network that entangles them and defeats them temporarily tell it like it is but also tell it like it ought to be no matter who don't like it see that brother beginning to dig [Music] itself all the heavy black folks digging heavy black folks Reginal locket poet Trish artist black white Sonia Sanchez Fox poet big Chuck or orer in heavy black [Music] man the US Center in Los Angeles led by Marana Ron Kinga Kinga the Nationalist Black Culture from ages ago LED back to us and us to it to re-embrace our Blackness seeking all that we are and all we will to be raise the cup brother drink all that truth in black people are watching you and learning who they are we are here to participate in and witness the sacred ceremony of marriage which has been since the time of the first born a means of establishing the house the [Music] main but black folks are working for what they want some of them anyway our commitment is to Blackness the strength and beauty we will walk this Earth proud again as masters of it wherever we are to get through to Black them surrounded by host of the Devil by Devils themselves we make ourselves we recreate ourselves in Blackness we will go back into Blackness and be our own judges we make our own Society we will evaluate and protect and rebuild ourselves in Blackness swah wed us CER Los Angeles resided over by Marana Kinga what we do has the rhythm of the universe the unchanging beat of Natural Energy animating it the US Center is the keeper of black history Alive Black tradition yes for sure this is one of our heaviest traditions this is part of our being for sure part of our being fine black women fine fine Soul sounds watched over by God's Heroes the god of Blackness if we will Embrace that gu and follow the urgings of its Prophet black art had better be where black people are so in the streets where a lot of us always be the black artists better be there too dealing with flesh and blood run it down [Music] brother this has Ben calwell the first militant preacher the communications project black Communications moved all around California Los Angeles San Francisco Oakland San Jose this is Berkeley California Street [Music] Theater free and black and black and beautiful black Communications to change the distorted image of the world flooded Upon Our Heads in this open source called America what the black artist must do is re-erect a nation for black people so that they will evolve black art the destruction of disease where black people are Blackness will be but we want in need is strength and truth truth truth truth [Music] Allah [Music] [Music] soul is the collective you have none of us without all of us black folks you see the way we act beating everything in the spirit black art go all through you back on in the time into the sorrows and hopes of our black ancestors riding back to us yes got the spirit the spirit have you got good religion assalam alikum I say have you got good religion certainly do certainly certainly Lord the Heavenly tones of Los Angeles California as black men and women we are sick and tired and tired of being sick and tired we do not believe the white racist government of America is morally mentally physically financially and religiously capable of giving black people absolute freedom justice and equality therefore we declare our independence from the United States of [Music] America we are not American citizens we have never been treated as American citizens we have no desire to become some [Music] [Applause] americ black folks expected other ones other ways maybe also expected of something else yes definitely something else to move to educate black people people but what they have to do go on back free and black go forward to it go forward to it free and black you know what that [Music] means are [Music] [ __ ] a black lady dying of men leaving Nick hearts beating them down stuck PS and they are useful with they shoot come at you love what you are breathe like wrestlers or shutter strangely after peeing we want live words of the hit World SL Flesh and coursing Blood heart brain Soul sping fire we want poems like fist beating [ __ ] out a hate as per or dagger poems in the slimy bellies of the owner Jews black poems to smear on girle Mama MTO [ __ ] whose brains are red jelly stuck between Elizabeth Taylor's toes thinking H we want horns that kill assassin horns horns to shoot guns horns that wrestle cops into alleys and take their weapons leaving them dead with tongues pulled out and sent to Ireland dop selling WS or sliit half white politicians airplane [Music] PS setting fire and death to white ass for the Jew cles Thro there's a negro leader put to a b school and eyeballs Ming in Hot Lane another negro lead on the steps of the White House one kneeling between the sheriff's size negotiating coolly for his people put it oning naked to the world another bad M scen por and gas on be and green gr clean out the world for virtue and love Let There Be No Love fors written so love can exist freely and cleanly let black people understand that they are the lovers and the sons of lovers and warriors sons of Warriors poems poet all belov here in the world we want a black poem and a black World let the world be a black poem and let all black people speak this poem silently loud I told you to say it on a no dirty do to no [ __ ] white man M never [Music] Queen rehearsal of Jimmy Garretts We Own the Night directed by Leroy Jones his actress Judy Simmons getting it together enough power to blow up Hollywood Broadway and any other swamp black house was a center of Black Culture in San Francisco through which men like nazam El fitan eldrid Cleaver Ed bullins and Willie Dale moved and made things out of energy in route to the uh convention tonight a few schedules are planned for me and one of them uh was coming by and see uh my black brothers and sisters here in the ghetto who's catching hell daily and reason the reason I know that you're catching [Music] the communications project was moving carrying this message all through people [ __ ] we've always wanted peace and still want it but we have things to do to make it Sal Communications know who you are and you will know what to do fuy Newton defense minister Black Panther Party for self-defense that as you very well know America is making an Assa upon people of color just we are sh she very strong said that well I'm not going to attack you but to continue your thought on my tell brother I'll have to use some sense I'll be for [Music] [Applause] to historically someone invented a fear they went around cing everyone so finally someone she and then they went so afraid anymore the blacku has developed a that make the power and the technology of This Racist country n and Bo all praise to [Applause] [Music] our the blue Heroes which we need which we need cuz our heroes ain't nothing but a l bunch of hunkies like George Washington who had slaves Abraham Lincoln who didn't know nothing about human beings and was fighting to save this country not black people of Our Heroes run the gamut from tazan yeah dig him you know to uh Roy Rogers or Hopalong Cassidy and we don't have any black Heroes the only people that us read in school the Booker T Washington super um George Washington Carver and he was ignorant Super he was so stupid he found the peanut and gave it to white folk all the all the peanut butter factories today are owned by white folk now they let us read about these people for two reasons because they want us to be like them but now missing from us are heroes people like Nat Turner people like Denmark VY yeah people like Malcolm X yeah Malcolm X H rap Brown new chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee introduced for the first time to black people in the west by stokeley carmichel black Communications Fiore Auditorium San Francisco this brother just got out of jail for disturbing the peace what peace Salam black [Music] [Applause] power the evil will perish we know this our people have always said this we are ready now to make sure get it together Brothers move to take and reshape our world to reestablish Beauty on this this planet it is essential that black people reanimate the world with their wisdom and their rhythm allahar [Music] [Music] I [Music] be cultured is to be conscious with that no man can claim culture no black man unless he is consciously black and EDI black Communications of where and who we are and which way we will move this is the Triumph of our lives and it will be actual black power this is our cry we know what we want and how we have to move get it together you will be greater and Godlike when you do black people when you control your own lives embrace your Blackness Embrace and be it be the thing you need black Communications black art to cleanse our people's senses so that they can see so that they will know black Communications about black power get to that get it together brother black communication the beginning of the project to free ourselves yes free our black Sal [Music]