New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
"With skillful manipulating of the press, they're able to make the victim look like the criminal, and the criminal look like the victim.
"Right now in New York we had a couple cases where police grabbed the brother and beat him unmercifully -- and then charged him with assaulting them. They used the press to make it look like he's the criminal and they're the victim. This is how they do it, and if you study how they do it [t]here, then you'll know how they do it over here. It's the same game going all the time, and if you and I don't awaken and see what this man is doing to us, then it'll be too late. They may have the gas ovens already built before you realize that they're hot.
"One of the shrewd ways that they use the press to project us in the eye or image of a criminal: they take statistics. And with the press they feed these statistics to the public, primarily the white public. Because there are some well-meaning persons in the white public as well as bad-meaning persons in the white public. And whatever the government is going to do, it always wants the public on its side, whether it's the local government, state government, federal government. So they use the press to create images. And at the local level, they'll create an image by feeding statistics to the press -- through the press showing the high crime rate in the Negro community. As soon as this high crime rate is emphasized through the press, then people begin to look upon the Negro community as a community of criminals.
"And then any Negro in the community can be stopped in the street. 'Put your hands up,' and they pat you down. You might be a doctor, a lawyer, a preacher, or some other kind of Uncle Tom. But despite your professional standing, you'll find that you're the same victim as the man who's in the alley. Just because you're Black and you live in a Black community, which has been projected as a community of criminals. This is done. And once the public accepts this image also, it paves the way for a police-state type of activity in the Negro community. They can use any kind of brutal methods to suppress Blacks because 'they're criminals anyway.' And what has given this image? The press again, by letting the power structure or the racist element in the power structure use them in that way."
~ Malcolm X, February 14, 1965
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Genre
Jazz
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Airbreak | ||||
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Bill Evans Trio | Peri's Scope | Portrait in Jazz | Riverside (Waxtime) | |
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Dizzy Gillespie | Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac | The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie | Verve (original) | |
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Jayne Cortez | For the Poets | Before Columbus Foundation Poets Read | Folkways | |
Airbreak | ||||
Lester Bowie | St. Louis Blues (Chicago Style) | Rope-A-Dope | Muse | |
Richard Pryor | Bicentennial Nigger | Bicentennial Nigger | Warner Brothers | |
The Last Poets | Run, Nigger | The Last Poets | Douglas (original) | |
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie | Shaw 'Nuff | Bebop | New World Records | |
Freestyle Fellowship | Convolutions | To Whom It May Concern | Sun Music | |
Airbreak | ||||
Horace Tapscott & Everett Brown, Jr. | At the Crossroads | At the Crossroads | Nimbus Records | |
Lenore Kandel (Dee Dee Bridgewater & Reggie Workman) | Love in the Middle of the Air | (Heiner Stadler) Brains on Fire Vol. 2 | Labor | |
Sylvia Plath | Ouija | Sylvia Plath Reads Her Poetry | Caedmon | |
Sylvia Plath | The Beggars of Benidorm Market | Sylvia Plath Reads Her Poetry | Caedmon | |
Sylvia Plath | Sculpture | Sylvia Plath Reads Her Poetry | Caedmon | |
Airbreak | ||||
John Tchicai | Kirsten | Cadentia Nova Danica | Freedom (Japan) | |
Stanley Cowell Sextet | Earthly Heavens | Brilliant Circles | Freedom (Japan) | |
Noah Howard Septet | Queen Ann | The Black Ark | Freedom (Japan) | |
Carl Sandburg | Prarie Waters by Night | Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry | Caedmon | |
Carl Sandburg | Southern Pacific | Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry | Caedmon | |
Carl Sandburg | Prayers of Steel | Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry | Caedmon | |
Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy | Azure | Sempre Amore | Soul Note | |
Airbreak | ||||
Karin Krog featuring Dexter Gordon | Shiny Stockings | Some Other Spring | Storyville | |
Clark Terry & Red Mitchell | Shiny Stockings | To Duke and Basie | Enja | |
Bill Evans | Peace Piece | Everybody Digs Bill Evans | Riverside |