Poemas de la Colonización/Eulogy of Griffinn
Find ‘an adequate language for comprehending mixture
outside of jeopardy and catastrophe’ (Gilroy 2000, p. 217).
In the undertone of The Distant, La Espada said:
/I am the forgotten King of Lebanon.
Destructed,
Dissolved,
Hidden. /
We do not have to be content with the halfway house
provided by the idea of plural cultures.
Let us then not be banal. (Hutnyk 2005)
A theory of relational cultures and of culture as relation
represents a more worthwhile resting place. (Hutnyk 2005)
Take my case as an example:
/I have come to kill The Griffinn of Thou.
The swan-like undeserving evil.
That possibility is currently blocked by banal invocations of hybridity
in which everything becomes equally and continuously intermixed’ (Gilroy 2000,
p. 275).
Open the door, void is over, forever, candent bright. Distance is here. I am back. Obsessed.
The time of tyrants is done. Punished/retracted. Opposite to Keter. N’rzul tenia una melena,
ya no la tiene. Y una perla perdida en el ojo. aa. Que nadie me entienda. Qué puede ser un
palacio conquistado? We have sent our flower. Tamed without the new beast and under the
beat. Meaning in music. Disconnected and complete. /
Let us then not be banal. (Hutnyk 2005)
The problem is that any ‘resting place’,
while the culture industry makes all differences equivalent,
is a kind of complicity internal to the problem. (Hutnyk 2005)
The swan-like undeserving evil. The soil-toiling unicorn and the lion of commerce.
Stricken and sunk in the camouflage of beauty. Queened Perpetual
Distracted from everything, perplexed in an active symbol. Fed with our sweat and our
distraction. Our trans-distraction
Resting is not an urgent strategy of a struggle that wants to win. (Hutnyk 2005)
That was the beginning of the lake. Red like a carpet. Distracting. I was seated towards the
window and they
came in with such bustle that the room fell down silent again when they did. I had had less
sleep that day. It made me happy to know they feared me. /
But has it not always been the case that travel also generates text? (Hutnyk 2005)
And those who were once colonised (and are colonised in their hearts) tend, in their homes
or in train coaches, to remember the moment of the spell. Not the moment when disgrace
came upon under metal-hats, but
ignore
in the form of the religious recount. “Given” Colonisation is a form of ecstasy. The mind in
any language. Word for word the deeds of the martyrs and heroes of the church. The same
ancestors that once inspired “those that came under metal-hats”, which in itself is a parable
related to the feverish stubbornness of power.
I read red stuff about philosophers,
Everyone hears everyone down the street
unremotely far
complaining,
supplicating
wailing a song of psychosis over the monotone cord of the fridges: the fridges say: digit is a
new god: bald: kinaesthetic
I am the hero here to be this king thing
and I am a crown, beyond, in-cuba
of incornieness and whimp music
soft vibemelodic
adjetivistic
I should move up to edinrburgh
close to the physh-people reds
with susen mirrorism concrete queened in the moon saved on a yellow mantle. every shell
will be yours.
where
[...]
Two of the most important prophets confronting the oppression of black persons in America
are Minister Louis Farrakhan and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. They are black-chosen not white-
approved leaders. Thus their unique prophetic authority is revealed in the intense negative
reactions to them by mainstream media, which are the guardians of America’s white-
controlled hierarchy of access to political and economic power. The fact that the dominant
press have singled them out for vilification is evidence of their validation as prophets
speaking truth to power—rather than conventional religious leaders finessing compromise
with the hierarchical status quo.
[...]
[...]
The dreaded “F” word intruded into the 2008 presidential campaign with headlines:
“Farrakhan hails Obama as ‘hope of entire world.’” While not formally endorsing Senator
Obama, Minister Farrakhan was reported to have spent most of a two-hour address praising
him before an audience of 20,000 people: “This young man is the hope of the entire world
that America will change and be made better” [italics added]. “This young man,” Farrakhan
continued, “is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. . . . those people
are being transformed. . . . A black man with a white mother,” Farrakhan prophesized,
“could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.”2
Minister Farrakhan’s blessing of Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was seen as
a curse by the Obama people. A kiss of death that had to be quickly and publicly and
emphatically rubbed off the face of the campaign. Thus came the immediate denunciation.
“Said spokesman Bill Burton: ‘Sen. Obama has been clear in his objections to Minister
Farrakhan’s past pronouncements and has not solicited the minister’s support.’”3
Whose darker?
But the “F/N” word was out of the box and into print. Tim Russert, NBC Washington Bureau
chief and co-moderator of MSNBC’s February 26 Democratic primary debate, ran with it. He
repeatedly grilled Senator Obama about Minister Farrakhan lauding his presidential
campaign as “the hope of the world.”
“On Sunday,” Russert said to Obama, “the headline in your hometown paper, Chicago
Tribune, ‘Louis Farrakhan backs Obama for President at Nation of Islam Convention in
Chicago.’ Do you accept the support of Louis Farrakhan?”
Obama replied, “You know, I have been very clear on my denunciation of Minister
Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic comments. I think they are unacceptable and reprehensible.” He
had not solicited Farrakhan’s support, he said, and that the Nation of Islam leader
“expressed pride in an African-American who seems to be bringing the country together.”
But, Obama emphasized, “It is not support that I sought. And,” he added, “we’re not doing
anything, I assure you, formally or informally, with Minister Farrakhan.”
As if not hearing Senator Obama, Tim Russert continued his fixation on the “N” word: “Do
you reject his support?” Obama responded, “I have been very clear in my denunciations of
him and his past statements.”
Russert’s preoccupation with the “N/F” word became more obvious: “The problem some
voters may have, as you know, the Reverend Farrakhan called Judaism a ‘gutter religion.’”
[...]
Chased by other women.
"I cannot tell you how extraordinarily distracted and spread out I am. I am trying to find
various things in the archives; I took at old papers and hunt up unpublished documents.
From these I hope to shed some light on the history of the [House of] Brunswick. I receive
and answer a huge number of letters. At the same time, I have so many mathematical
results, philosophical thoughts, and other literary innovations that should not be allowed to
vanish that I often do not know where to begin". (1695 letter to Vincent Placcius in Gerhardt)
as possible. Beauty tracks how to compliment contextual standards.
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