This 2004 Swedish movie, which was released in the U.S. in 2008, is one of Catherine’s favorite movies. It tells a story of how music can serve as an investment in the spiritual health of a community and, by so doing, create transformative power. This is a movie that evokes a sense of meaning that will strike a chord with all those who’ve been struggling with “the nothing.” Time to come back to our power.

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  2. Funny I was thinking, we need some theme music to gain the strength and power to fight this coup d’etat. As a young man in the urban environments of New York City in the late 70s, a new burgeoning musical form where kids would take their parents record players and loop over the instrumental portion and then add some vocals over it, which later became known as Hip Hop was very inspiring to me. At first it was just the creativity, the vibrations, the sounds, then later came artists who taught me about Malcolm X at a time when my generation had no clue who he was prior to the 90s.

    Between rap artists such as Chuck D who taught my generation who Malcolm X was and myself witnessing as a teenager the Philadelphia police department drop a canister explosive on the home of the Africa family on Osage avenue live on the news, it helped shape my initial politics and understanding of the world.

    One of the most underrated African-American organization in the history of the United States is and always has been the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Here is an organization of Americans who took the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence and turned it into the foundations of their organization’s principles and all most people can conclude about a group they have studied nothing about, is that it was a police hating or cop killing bunch. What an insult to all things American to make such an incoherent and uninformed conclusion, you cannot get more American than the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.

    Anyway, if it had not been for music, in this case, Hip Hop music, I would probably not have evolved into becoming a Solari subscriber today.

    Unfortunately, Hip Hop music has now been co-opted, a term I learned from the Black Panther Party. So today, you will find me listening to songs such as country music artist Aaron Lewis and my favorite, “Still got my God and I still got my gun”. That could be a member of the BPP saying that. Make the connection?

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