Paper rights with blood splatters over them.

The new Rorschach test.

What do you see?

I see black empowerment.

I see Strange Fruit

falling

from the tree of Ubuntu.

I see blue is the new black.

What did I do to be so black and blue?

I see Tumi

singing

“My black president does me wrong”

I see them

singing

the song of days long gone

now our freedom’s gone for a song.

— colony

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Adam Haupt

Adam Haupt

Adam Haupt writes about film, media, culture and copyright law. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town and is the author of Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop...

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