Dr. Jared Ball and Head-Roc returned as Capitol Resistance this week first at the Yakima, WA. Students of Color Conference and then HERE at Highline Community College’s Unity Week. After a brief discussion of I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto, the theory and philosophy behind mixtape radio, Head-Roc demonstrated the analysis and, of course, dropped his own!

Really interesting piece, it was only marred by the distraction of the flag pin Head-Roc was wearing. What was that?
Great lecture/presentation – as always! I’m impressed you were able to break all of that down in so short a time.
great presentation lots of information and many usable quotes from many great minds, but i couldnt hear head roc when he stepped away from the podium. im sure i missed many jewels from him. next time hook him up wireless!!!
Great presentation. It was surgical precision. 25 minutes, and political economy was demystified.
Always important to remember your words, “Hip Hop is an attack on Black People.” And everyone loves to attack Hip Hop! It’s the “quintessence of evil”, as Fanon would say.
I like the point you made about the number of Black and Brown folks killed in 2012, it’s America trying to find it’s equilibrium in a time of financial crisis. Trayvon wasn’t an anomaly, it was a therapeutic act. Mumia said it best, “power is the ability to enforce your will”, it’s painfully obvious who has the power.
Keep up the good work Jared and Head-Roc
correction, your words were “An attack on Hip Hop is an attack on Black People.”
That’s extremely subjective.
Actually, it’s very objective if you understand the euphemisms that this system uses to describe Black people: “urban” means Black, “War On Drugs” means war on Black people, “Law and Order” a phrase that came out of the Nixon administration as a direct response to the Black Liberation struggles in this country at the time.
So you can just add Hip Hop to this list of euphemisms, nothing subjective about it all. When politicians talk about being “tough on crime” they are talking about putting the smack down on Black folks, does Willie Horton ring a bell.
Also, to understand what Dr. Ball fully meant, and not just read my interpretation of the point he was trying to make (it’s my fault for the misinterpretation because it isn’t a direct quote), please listen to Drawing Some Political Lines: Ideology in Hip-Hop, available here on Voxunion, what I was referring to occurred approximately 55 minutes into this panel. Instead of me confusing the issue, return to the source, to get the complete understanding of what Dr. Ball’s point he was trying to make.
What is the source of the Sylvia Wynter quote?
Wynter source:
Proud Flesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness, Issue 4, “Proud Flesh Interviews Sylvia Wynter”