Blackface, White Mask; 'I GOT A LETTER FROM THE GOV'T" w/host Professor Griff Blackface, White Mask; w/host Professor Griff
Blackface is a term used to describe a performance practice, primarily by non-Black individuals, who use makeup, costumes, and exaggerated features to imitate and often mock or ridicule people of African descent.
Black Faces, White Agendas
“Certified uncle toms”
The State Department’s role in destabilizing Black movements, and the use of Black music and Black figures to control the minds of the masses. It’s all tied into the comparison of Chuck D and General Michael Langley:
Chuck D & Michael Langley: Black Faces, White Agendas
In the struggle for Black liberation, both on the continent and in the diaspora. History has shown us a brutal pattern of those who rise in the name of the people are often flipped, flipped by power, flipped by proximity to whiteness, flipped by the State. In this dangerous game, the oppressor has learned that co-optation is more effective than confrontation, and thus, it gives us NeedGrows like General Michael Langley and Chuck D, two Black men propped up and elevated by the empire, tasked with neutralizing the very revolution they once stood next to or now pretend to lead as they Cozplay there way into history as traitors of the revolution.
Michael Langley, the first Black four-star general to lead AFRICOM, is not a victory for Black people, it is a strategic placement. AFRICOM is a neocolonial military apparatus designed to destabilize Africa, militarize its governments, plunder its resources, and crush revolutionary uprisings before they threaten U.S. and European interests. Langley is not liberating Africa, he is locking it down under the guise of “security.” His presence provides the illusion of progress, while African nations remain fractured by coups, conflict, and covert U.S. influence. His uniform is not armor for Black sovereignty, it is a badge of betrayal.
Chuck D, once the sonic weapon of Black consciousness, now plays a quieter role in the State’s long game of mental warfare. Where Langley’s betrayal is physical and militarized, Chuck’s is cultural and psychological. The same system that assassinated the voices of Malcolm, Huey, and Fred has figured out how to buy the voice of rebellion. Today, Chuck D walks a fine line between icon and informant, not necessarily to law enforcement, but to the State Department’s deeper agenda: to control the minds of Black people through their cultural heroes.
We must never forget the State Department’s covert investment in controlling Black consciousness.
This isn’t theory, this is documented fact. Since COINTELPRO and beyond, the U.S. intelligence apparatus has used music, media, and celebrity as tools of mass manipulation. When the bullet failed, they used the billboard and there economic hit men. When revolution surged, they responded with a record deal. And when artists like Public Enemy once spoke the raw, radical truth, the system waited them out, bought them out, or boxed them into irrelevance.
Now, Black music is the new plantation. Artists pushed to glorify hyper-consumerism, violence, misogyny, and nihilism, while conscious voices are defunded, blackballed, or domesticated, and those who know better, but stay silent? They are just as dangerous. Chuck D, by refusing to challenge the hijacking of hip-hop and aligning with the very forces he once condemned, has become a gatekeeper of false progress. His silence is not neutral, it is compliance.
The psychological warfare waged on Black people through our own music is devastating. It rewires the values of our youth, poisons our relationships, commodifies our pain, and turns our artists into tools of empire. This is mind control dressed in rhythm. This is spiritual warfare masked as entertainment. And those who once held the megaphone of truth, like Chuck D, now hold it with the volume turned down and the corporate logo turned up.
Langley drops bombs. Chuck drops silence. Both serve the same master. One destabilizes Africa’s soil. The other destabilizes our soul.
We are not fooled by Black faces in white systems. Representation without revolution is just recolonization in disguise. Until our artists, generals, and influencers sever ties with the machine and realign with the grassroots, they are not allies, they are agents of delay. Our liberation will not come from those who are allowed to speak, but from those who are willing to lose everything to speak the truth.
Revolution is not nostalgic. It’s now.
Professor Griff Minister Of Information
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