Eyes Watch
Kins seen
In between
Oz and Ox

From Belly
Hun smell tree
Roastin
Cheef's Potion
Be Potent

Death is nice
Next life

Deep Stroken
(in Eve's Ocean)

Kin's ol tank (top)

Tribe

Thanx tha dank

Cheef refrains

from ya crank.

I love the

Skunk

I aint got

No shank

O No pump

Gist an ol tank

Ken is Zen

Ken is Zen

than he's evah been

This nerd deserves

Jenny from the Jeffersons

Kick it like karate

Get lifted

Like a Marley

Mam,

Even Dan

Agrees Cheef's

The man

With the Thundah

And

Since Ken's

Tribe survived the tundra

Land

Of Alaska

Its no wondah

This Bastah

Has tah

Splash ya

Ken is Zen than he's evah been

The nerd deserves

Jenny from the Jeffersons

Kin Camell Peace Lord

Peace Lord

Cheef wars

With bliss

And greed whores

So his soul

Is consoled

By n!ce

Key boards

My dope notes

And waves amaze

Like sea shores

My steez pure

I be sure

Night and Day

Why detour ?

The way I write's

My right of way

Supplies thee cure

A solution

To the pollution

Be fore

We snore

Eternally

Kin's Journal speaks

Life Reflecting Sketchings

Ken Camell ll

Oct 6 2019

Afram 26

Critical Response Essay #1

The importance of leaving a written or verbal narrative is imperative to ensure melanated people will no longer be removed from history (Eurocentric perspective of time) or our story (Asiacentric perspective of time). To share our story is too resist.

On page 30 of Black Culture and Black Consciousness author Lawrence Levine clarifies "slave music regardless of origin was a distinctive cultural form and it was created or constantly recreated through a communal process". With this statement Levine clearly explains slave songs served as a Melanated social commentary or as I like to call them "Life Reflecting Sketchings".

Resist failing to voice the U.S and the Western World consistent  socio economic atrocities which ravage the quality of life for the majority of the Earth's human population. Resist staying silent about the blood sweat and tears Melanated people lost while building Colonial plantations and maintaining the U.S labor force ( chattel slavery, convict leasing, 3 strikes) .

Despite having ample reasons to stay pessimistic , songs expressing resilience while acknowledging the everyday struggle of surviving represents an organic form of resistance. Providing people with hope and reason to hold on to the possibility of rising above whatever obstacles hindering  progression is invaluable. Songs of upliftment convey spiritual support in times of despair (the valleys) and in times of joy (the peaks). It doesn't matter if its hectic work week or you are experiencing the loss of a loved one.

Whether in the form of art & entertainment (music ,film, sports)  or politics to defy the status quo through "distinctive cultural forms" (unconventional) expression is the epitome of resisting. These rad expressions are representations of how one person can make a difference and change people's perspective. Radical Melanated people such as ; Jack " The Galveston Giant" Johnson , W.E.B Dubois  ,Paul Robenson, Mahailla Jackson, Odetta , Billie Holiday, Leotyne Pryce, Lauraine Hainsberry, Paulie Murray , Nina Simone , Curtis Mayfield Bobby Seale & Huey Newton , Thommie Smith & John Carlos , Shirley Chisolm, Spike Lee ,Mae Johnson, Ryan Coogler, Kolin Kaepernick and Ava Duvernay are all testaments of resisting.

Levine reminds the readers that " the slaves oral tradition , their music and their religious outlooks served as a cultural refuge from the slave system".

Levine concludes the 3rd chapter with emphasizing the fact that  slave songs and spirituals are independent cultural forms therefore the reader can connect the dots between the blues , jazz , soul and hip hop and also understand how powerful music is.

Kin Camell Damn Right

Damn ,

Write

To

Rise

In

Battle

And

Life

Is us

Kins up

And tends

Tah give a fuck

Yall,

I'm no prostitute

All

My lines

Yah gots tah salute

No twenty one

Gun

Kin hes the son

Of a bum

A brotha

Unda massive

Drastic

Tactics

So Camells

The Bastid

To Unveil

Magic

Damn

Right

To

Rise

In

Battle

And

Life

Kins deep melanin

Try keep

tellin them,

Thy deep mel a nin

Ya Eye,

peeps reflection

When

My ex,pressions

Bend,

(Repeat chorus 3x)

the hands of time

since,

Tribes' expectin

Wins

And im

Sketchin gems

Despite

Pestilence

Cheefs

Fresh again

And mam

Deaths been

Testin Kin's

Testicles

Its best ya know

Try keep

tellin them,

Thy deep mel a nin

Ya Eye,

peeps reflection

When

My ex,pressions

Bend,

Cheefs' sketchin

With a number two

Ya cant test

The Number won

Der fol