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We’re One Year Away From The 100th Anniversary Of The Harlem Renaissance
There’s only one year left, and Black people’s excellence is more important than ever before.
And now, some words from the intro of Busta Rhymes’ 1997-recorded album Extinction Level Event that speak directly to the idea that we’re in desperate need of a rejuvenated Harlem Renaissance-style era in American life.
I’m afraid the end time is near. The cataclysmic apocalypse referred to in the scriptures of every holy book known to mankind. It will be an era fraught with boundless greed & corruption, where global monetary systems disintegrate, leaving brother to kill brother for a grain of overcooked rice. The nations of the civilized world will collapse under the impressive weight of parasitic political conspiracies which remove all hope and optimism from their once faithful citizens…Bloodthirsty renegade cyborgs created by tax-dodging corporations wreck havok. Pissed off androids tired of being slaves to a godless & gutless system, where the rich get richer, and the poor get…