Nightly collections of my R.E.M dreams. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is unintentional and purely coincidental.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Somebody stole my jacket...! con't..

Huey Newton in his Black Panther garb. This was more the "Mika" in my dream. Though I am not as outwardly militant as this..I like his jacket better.

Militancy has its dark side as the story of Huey P. Newton tells. He founded the Black Panther party. He tried to do alot of good in the African-American community and succeeded at some of this...but later the party was disbanded has the Panthers got into many fatal encounters with the police. Federal forces infiltrated the Black panther party in the form of a program called "Co-intelpro"( Counter-intellegience). Some of the members of the Black Panthers are still around but Huey was killed in Oakland (where I am living now). Huey failed to drugs (crack cocaine) and it was said he was killed by these drug people in a drug deal gone bad. Its the dark side and it reflects some issues in my life i'm dealing with...How do you help your community, without killing yourself / or being killed in the end? The struggle probably brought Huey down. But maybe it represents a part of my dream also.

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