I usually avoid watching documentaries about Slavery or the Civil War because; they have the potential to evoke feelings that can be emotionally destructive.

 

One evening I unapologetically watched the story of Emmett Till. I couldn’t help to have those uncomfortable feelings at the conclusion of this program toward the Ku Klux Klan. Immediately following this documentary the local news caster cut in with, “three teens are dead and two more are injured as two rival gangs had a shootout...On another story, …a young man’s life is taken at a local mall- a victim of a robbery for his gold chain….And a student at a local high school has been taken to the hospital after being beaten unconscious by three other students. These stories and the weather, when we return”.

 

This immediately brought me out of my anger for the Klan and their inexcusable racist act toward Emmett Till. Yet, I started to think about how many young black lives have been senselessly taken all over the country on this one day.

 “Hell, we don’t need the Klan no more. We’re doing a much better job of eradicating black people than Klan could ever dream.  As a matter of fact, if I had my choice, I’d rather deal with them than what I have to be concerned with today.

I am 10 times more likely to be gunned down at the corner store by someone who looks like me or someone that I know than a Ku Klux Klan member.

I am probably more than 15 times likely to be a victim of a strong armed robbery, a carjacking or a home invasion, than an act of a Klan member.

We don’t need the Klan no more because the deaths for which they are responsible, as it concerns black people, are virtually miniscule to the lives taken during the past twenty years as a result of black on black crime.”  I don’t blame all the ‘acts of black on black crime’ on the current Rap- Artist. Yet, there is a direct correlation in the increase of these crimes and the change in our music. Innocent children have fallen victims to the Law of Correspondence as a result of the music they are being fed.

( Vx R = C ).   

 

I went into the studio ( The Red Room )  the next day told my band members  ( The Generation )  of my experience watching the Emmett Till documentary and the local news following the program.

We decided to collaborate on the theme ‘We Don’t Need the Klan”. They all went to their own corners of the room and came out when it was their turn on the mic and three hours later it was done.