Since my good brother @the6thtrumpet has know me, he has seen the side of me who uses arts as a social change tool. He has known me since I have been using my poem “Poetry that Gives Birth to Revolution” of which he helped turn into a spoken word song called “Poetry Revolution.” It has been my mission to turn poetic words into songs or stand alone poems aiming at all of the poisonous isms that have made us all ill in some shape, form, or fashion. Just recently I went to Portland, Maine and used poems to add to the resistance movement focused on pushing back at racism, sexism, etc. I am better as an artist or as a human when I am performing or recording this kind of content. I am thankful @the6thtrumpet and I have been on this journey together. His music compesition and my rhymes and poems make for a perferct match as we both use art to tell stories or to describe the human condition.
In these tumultious political times we need revolutionares; we need new Gil Scott-Herons, Amiri Barakas, and new Nikki Giovannis. We need solutions to age old problems and politics that have done any of us no good. The policies that are placing many of us in thesame boat is destroying us at the same time. We are not aligned – it is this political party or this political party – especially on the left. Where is a central movement for equity, justice, and harmony? A left leaning powerful arts movement where we call out everything but also learn to work together is what will get us to where we need to be.
The work continues; the work brother @the6thtrumpet and I continue to make happen rolls on. The collaborations writers and music makers is needed for a collective breath in these times. We regularly communicate and exchange ideas to remain relevant and motivated. There is a lot of work to be done. We run on with the magic we possess to impact and empower. The Arts are alive, are full of energy, are coming from speakers on phones, visual arts on murals in cities like Chicago and Philadelphia, can be heard at poetry slams and open mics, can be viewed at dance shows and recitals in Harlem or in Baltimore. We must continue to make it happen. This is our route, our Underground Railroads to freedom, to truth, to safe spaces. The arts will remain a tool for social change for me as long as I am breathing.
