Professor Frank Wilderson was at Sankofa Books in Washington, D.C. Saturday February 5, 2011 to discuss his books Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid and Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. He read from Incognegro which is about his time as a member of the armed wing of the African National Congress in South Africa’s liberation struggle. It was this work that had him described by Nelson Mandela as a threat to national security for his “post-apartheid” support of Chris Hani, communism and protracted armed struggle until actual and genuine power was achieved. We were there to capture the event and allow others to see/hear for themselves the discussion that took place with this scholar and freedom fighter. See Part One below!
Our Anti-Black World: The U.S. of A. to the U. of S. A. from VoxUnion Media on Vimeo.
Click HERE to see Part ONE.
Click HERE! to see Part TWO.
Thanks again to everyone for the event last night! The Fanon Project, ABPSI, Sankofa Book and Frank Wilderson, Mark Bolden and Todd S. Burroughs.
Thanks for taping this!
Hello, I wanted to alert you that are not aware that not ONLY is the US gov’t a hypocrite when it states that it supports democratic ideals in OTHER countries, as black people, we should know 1st hand that IN THIS country, it has continually and systemically failed to support it and has more often than not, conversely BLOCKED true democracy–so let me alert you to a not-so-new phenomena that I’m an unfortunate newer victim of—organized gangstalking & remote neural monitoring–both part of a on-going and what I and others believe is a recent ramp up of what amounts to crimes against humanity—secret and wholly INVOLUNTARY mind control pogrom. Now I know secret mind control pogroms may sound like science fiction to most but if you research, the govt’s Mk-Ultra program has been in existence since at least the 70′s and perhaps prior to that. Bad publicity (like Co-intelpro’s) forced the govt to publicly disavow the pogrom, but we ALL know that just means it went even further underground. So what do I mean when I say “mind control”? I mean to proclaim ( and I know this will lead a lot of people to think me mentally ill, but believe me, it’s truth), that the US gov’t and other gov’ts as well have in their possession technology that can read “sub-vocalized thoughts”–in short, you know when you are talking to yourself and not out loud? well those thoughts can be translated and “read” via technology. Yes, I know it sounds like I’ve been watching too many sci-fi movies, but believe me it’s real and if you seek out the info online, you will come across many people JUST like me who have never met, have no connection to one another besides the fact that we have been randomly targeted for what amounts to nazi-like involuntary human experimentation BY the gov’t JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN. I am no terrorist, political activist nor threat to the national security of the US, yet I Am an average poor,black woman, and this, as we know historically, is one of the favorite demographics that the US loves to experiment on and oppress in any way they can. Now, I’m not saying they are only using minorities as guinea pigs in the name of “amoral” scientific uses; but again, historically black and poor communities get the brunt of anything diabolical the US gov’t happens to have up it’s duplicitous sleeve–can you say Tuskegee? (it seems other favorite targets for this program seem to be homeless, gays & lesbians, jews, among others, but if you don’t belong to any of aforementioned groups, don’t despair, b/c I believe those currently being targeted are just the beginning–eventually I believe the plan is to unleash this technology on the entire population). This is a historical and factual truth. If you want to educate yourselves on this phenomenon, pls google the terms: organized gangstalking & remote neural monitoring and also pls visit a site dedicated
to targeted individuals, such as: http://www.areyoutargeted.com , they will give further credence to my assertions. Again, this phenemona is not new, yet it seems it has been expanded imo since the Patriot Act has given the gov’t vast leeway in whom it targets basically for what amounts to systemic torture: 24/7 surveillance, harrassment, voice to skull electronic transmissions, directed energy attacks, stalking where ever the targeted individual goes, etc. Again, it sounds like science fiction but it’s real and it’s the biggest human rights abuse story that’s yet to be told. I’m telling my story b/c I have nothing to lose and I refuse to suffer in silence, but again, there are many, many more like me, and the only way I know how to fight is to tell my story and to sound the alarm, particularly in the black community that this is going on and YOU could be next. Not b/c of anything you do, but b/c the US Gov’t has become so contemptuous of humanity and
it’s “stated” goals, that anything goes—if it’s possible that it can lead to a firmer grip on power at any cost or if the possibility of making money is there—the gov’t will DO anything to not only foreign populations (Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, etc, etc, etc) but again, as history has CLEARLY shown—it won’t hestitate to act in kind against it’s own citizens.
Hi Jared and everyone on the site, I was wondering if Professor Wilderson was also on We Ourselves and if you all were going to post it? Was looking forward to hear you all have your exchange and it wasn’t posted so I figured I’d ask.
Thanks for posting this, always wonderful to hear from Professor Wilderson!
Hi Zari… Wilderson was on with us for We Ourselves, but since it was during a pledge-drive and didnt really include too much of an interview I figured I wouldn’t post it. But… stay tuned, Ill clip some good parts and put it up within a few days. Now that you mention it Im sure there were a few gems in there. Thanks for listening and checking us out here!
And I will be posting part 2 of the Wilderson lecture at Sankofa next week too. There is much, much more on that coming… that was a great event.
and don’t forget, you can also hear Wilderson here:
http://www.voxunion.com/?p=2789
and here!
http://www.voxunion.com/?p=2531
and certainly don’t miss his first visit to the program here!
http://www.voxunion.com/?p=878
Part TWO is posted!
http://www.voxunion.com/?p=3428
and here is the discussion we had on radio last week with Frank, Todd, Tom Porter and Katea Stitt!
http://www.voxunion.com/?p=3439
Awesome! Thank you so much! I heard each of his previous interviews, but thanks for the thorough response
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Sure! And thanks for doing all that listening!
Oh yeah, voxunion is a weekly must!! BTW, this is Zari from People of Color Organize, if you want to include the interview that we did with Frank as well to compile a type of audio library, here is the link.
http://www.peopleofcolororganize.com/general/watershed-debut/
Do you mind if we post your interviews to POCO?
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yes, Zari, of course, and thank you. We will share and are happy to have you post what we do on POCO! Its an honor. We offer what we have to whoever can use it. The more the better. And we are looking forward to your visit to our show in a little while too!