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National Black Leadership Alliance Memo to the Black Community June 5, 2017 It’s About Music And Mind Control And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? Genesis 34: 31 Summer is approaching and we fully expect the nations streets, parks and gathering places to fill once again with people seeking reprise from the heat and boredom that accompanies sultry summer weather, and in the nations urban centers the summer threat of violence remains as prevalent as in the preceding years. Let’s be clear, nothing has been done to change the conditions that entrap Black underserved communities, the progressive movements have been focused primarily on protest demonstrations and watching and evaluating Donald Trump. In underserved Black communities income inequality, dysfunctional schools, record levels of unemployment, mass incarceration linked to the prison for profit industry all remain intact with Attorney General Sessions calling on federal prosecutors to incarcerate more people for longer periods of time, a move that will certainly increase revenue for the prison for profit industry. In Black underserved communities nothing has changed. The structural inequalities that have been codified into the American political and economic system remain unchanged and unchallenged. In December of 2016 the New York Times described Chicago as a city besieged by gun violence that had skyrocketed since the previous year. The Times article went on to say that “the brutal cold of a Chicago winter has not been as reliable a deterrent of violence as it has been in the past” While nothing is done on a policy level to change the condition of the people, the city looks to the weather for help. Not only are the concrete needs of underserved Black communities ignored, we are encouraged to tolerate the increasing assault on the Black community while expecting miraculous results. In early December 2016, the National Black Leadership Alliance argued that there is a very real link between the increase in vicious and murderous behavior prevalent in the streets of Americas underserved communities which now includes an increase in violence against woman, and the increase in vicious anti Black music that targets African American youth with messages that encourage murder, denigrates Black woman reducing them to harlots, and then the acting out of that behavior in real time on the streets where we live. Additional research has revealed that we are indeed what we think, our character and behavior being the complete sum of all our thoughts. What resonates in your mind does indeed influence your behavior. Neuroscience research has shown that negative feelings activate a region of the brain called amygdala, which is involved in processing emotions like fear and anxiety. It is helpful to understand that music as a conveyor of emotions is significant because the basic physiology of our bodies is rhythmic in nature, therefore we are strongly affected by external rhythms, which are an essential component of music. Kamal Chemali a neurologist who directs the Sentara Music & Medical Center. Norfolk Va. states that our brains are hardwired for music, therefore music, more than any other form of art, actually activates the neurons in most of our brain. Research from the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has shown that the amygdala recovers from a threat more slowly in some then in others, in short, negativity can prevent us from quickly bouncing back from hardship and stress. Consider this, the constant flow of threats and negative thoughts into the mind on a daily basis can make it impossible for the brain cells to recover and return to a normal healthy function. That brings us face to face with the vicious anti Black content of “killer rap” which urges black people to prove their worth by displaying their willingness to kill other Black people in order to get from “nothing to something” Every song threatens assault and murder. While at the same time a global movement fueled by young people sets out to change the world on their own terms, Black youth are urged to accept inequity and find a place within a corrupt society in order to get rich or die trying. And so we have appealed to iHeart Radio, the owner of most of the anti-Black, anti-woman, killer radio stations in the United States to modify the music they present to African American youth, which is most often different then the music offered to white youth even when performed by the same artist. They not only refuse to consider our concerns and make any adjustment they also continue to censor out the conscious rap of artist like Lupe Fiasco, Dead Prez, and Talib Kweli, and new music by Gladys Knight, Anita Baker, Gerald Austin, Mavis Staples, Dennis Edwards, Music Soul Child, Herbie Hancock, in other words the total Black experience in sound, has been completely removed from the market place. We appealed to McDonalds the primary sponsor of these killer radio stations to not support such offensive anti Black media. Unlike the sponsors who withdrew their support from Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity choosing not to risk offending white women, where Black women are at issue however, McDonalds, who receives enormous support from Black consumer dollars refused to make adjustments to their advertising saying to us that when it comes to advertising they have an obligation to employees, franchisees, and shareholders to reach their customers as effectively as possible. The McDonalds customer satisfaction representative, someone identified only as Caroline, no last name, went on to say “We regularly review programming where our advertising messages appear and strive to associate out message with programming that is relevant, entertaining, speaks to our customers and supports our brand values.” Where Black women and their youngsters are concerned McDonalds brand values become quite muddled. Therefore on Monday, June 19th, the day we celebrate Juneteenth we call for one day of outrage and economic discipline, one day of absence, on that day, June19th, stay out of McDonalds. Let them operate without black consumer dollars. It is not how readily you spend, but when you control your spending that you demand respect.

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