Thursday, July 17, 2014

"Accompanied" or NOT, Child immigrants are Refugees!








Dear friends,

When a lost and confused Christopher Columbus was "discovered" by the indigenous people of a Caribbean island, then invited ashore, along with his fellow thugs, and treated well, who would've thought that over five centuries later the descendants of America's indigenous people would presently be both murdered, tortured, and imprisoned for traveling around the land upon which their predecessors have been doing so for thousands of years?

Moreover, now fleeing violence, why are children regardless of whether or not they are "accompanied" being treated as if they are unwanted criminals as opposed to being dealt with in the same way as the refugees who came here from Ireland, Poland, and Italy and whose descendants for the last four or five generations lie about being blood relatives of the original Pilgrim group?

G. Djata Bumpus
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Matthew Saad Muhammad passes...












Dear friends,

In this photo taken 7/26/24, I am holding up the boxing trunks that WBC world light heavyweight champion Matthew Saad Mohammed gave to me prior to a two-rounds exhibition fight that we had before a packed house at the old Martin Luther King Arena, 46th and Market streets in West Philly, back in the fall of 1980… It was my final public appearance as a professional boxer.

"Love loves forever!" - Stevie Wonder

G. Djata Bumpus
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Monday, July 14, 2014

Should Art be for Art's sake?

Dear friends,

This excerpt from a James Baldwin speech is only five minutes-long, but deeply thoughtful. Especially in an era when singers, actors, and hip-hop people often call themselves "artists", at least to me, those just mentioned need to understand that first and foremost one must be "human" (and all that that implies) in his or her artistic expression, in order to be an artist. After all, nonhuman animals and other creatures have no use for art.

Still, most of what is being passed off as "art" in this society is simply "pander" and has nothing to do with art. Cheers!

G. Djata Bumpus

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