Arthur Jafa on Michael Jackson as Self-Loather, Shape Shifter & Classically Black

black American position survivability because with all the ramifications and problematics and pluses and minuses I mean Evo's are not apparent and I philosophical traditions because the ethos didn't survive they made different sets of choices now jump a father vdr korean actually he said the culture that's been surviving the futures of culture that you can carry around in your head and I was I like the black American community is such a profound example because if you look at where we're strong with strong or precisely the air that's willing to carry the cultural my nervous and meaning in the Middle Passage if you look at traditional East wrong oratorical II dance music right and it's not to say that you know had his profound a rich and deep traditions on continent around other types of expressive stupid particular material expressive sculpture painting on these other kinds of things but those things are things that are like relatively speaking underdeveloped in the context of black America and this because you know you can't carry our protection on your back when you're on the slate you can't here materials nice things we got we not only didn't have access to until we were wrong we will objects not subject so that undergirds everything else that kind of now so I mean to say so I think like when you see like to be like I think the prime example of survival and the cops was in fact Michael Jackson's father Joe Jackson who Michael say was the genius he said Joe Jackson was a genius even late in his life and I think Joe Jackson was changed some questions what kind of genius you know we tend to motivate the geniuses of musical expression these kind of stuff I think oftentimes we don't why it's hard to get it get a grip on the gene that the ontological genius genius of being genius applying genius to survive in this kind of stuff so I think Joe Jackson made some really kind of profound strategic moves and decisions in relationship to his family sort of transform I know if you don't been to Gary Indiana but it's definitely no meaning kind of proposition you know and so the whole idea that this guy was working in a steel factory to take like 10 more kids it's just I miss unfairness in the lights like to me I think that there's a novel as deep within in Sir Michael Jackson it's a story Michael Jackson you know and the choices and decisions that he made and all the ramifications choice I mean I think classically speaking in terms of black America philosophical traditions I don't think ontologically speaking that black people have done situated being in the body I mean as much as you knew our bodies circumscribe Americans think of our bodies our bean I mean we might obsess fucking's bodies because I think these bodies dictate how we can maneuver in the society for like say for example black Americans don't have a problem with the idea of a black person who has a non black can say for example a black person has a Japan we just see them as a black person because we know it's not about the body you know so I think when you see somebody like Michael Jackson there's a kind of asymmetry in terms of how we deal with each of the individual of the kinds of terms the criteria that we project onto here in terms of comes illusions about what his impulses were or what he was trying to achieve with the kind of movements that he made I mean it's really clear that and I think mostly anybody were disputed they're thinking that you're ugly thinking that you're glad I'm not in this I mean so he profoundly felt that he was not attractive but he was always baffled when people say I think the more proper of the another area to look at to dictate or determine was he was just like I mean right

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Length: 7min 31sec (451 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 06 2010