Art Review

Hebru Brantley is a artist from Chicago's South Side who has a new gallery up in Seattle (intresting city) called "Lions Disguised As Lambs". Hebru does walls, illustrations, and paintings and is widely coveted for his ranges in style and skill, and implementing his ethnic roots in his works. Several of his wall pieces are up at the store Leaders, I've had the oppurtunity to see them multiple times. A lot of his drawings are inspired by Japanese techniques such as magma. There is substance in mostly all of his works, dealing with race, culture, and value. His range of talent is unparallel to the majority of artists I've experienced. He had a gallery at the Zhou. B Art Gallery previously dubbed "Afro Futurism (Impossible View)" . Check him out, support local artists, ecspecially ones that are good.
http://www.hebrubrantley.com/illustrate.html

We Have The Right

We have the right to demand a more transparent and open government in most instances. We have a right as consumers to know everything about what we eat. We have  the right to a open organ market, to several things that would run on and on if continued. There needs to be a Sean Bell street in every major city in America for police brutality awareness and to commemerate a loved one. Police should only patrol areas they live(d) in. There should be a anti-FBI month every year to look at travesties comitted. If there's a war there should be a requirement for the amount of elected officals family going to the war. etc

McCarthy's Birthday Week

Happy belated birthday from a belated blog entry.I have enjoyed the class and have learned a lot from it

X Is Known

Malcolm X is revered as one of the most influental people and greatest minds of the 20th century along with the likes of Che Guervara, MLK, Huey Newton, and so many others. One thing all of the people I named shared a central belief/goal; they all fought for equality of their people and people in general. We need more men like that in the world now, ecspecially with the turmoil we see aroound us; the political oppression and uprising in Libyia, massive economic problems, exploitation in so called "3rd world countries." There will always be problems but to me it shows how vital Malcolm X and these men were, and it's intresting that the government was somehow involved in all of their deaths. (They all were spied on by the US government and many believe the government had a hand in all of their deaths: CIA helped capture and kill Che and FBI created lies to turn black leaders against eachother in the case of Huey Newton) It just seems that there is not many great leaders left in our world than eras past, and I wonder how drastically diffrent our world would be today if all of these great inspirational men were alive today. I sometimes think one conversation with any of them I would learn more than all of my years of school. RIP to these leaders