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 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 Subversion (HSRC Press, 2008) and Static: Race & Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media & Film (HSRC Press, 2012). In 2010, he was a Mandela Mellon Fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
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