#572 My History- Toure

#572 My History- Toure

This story is pure fantasy. It’s a list bullet points invoking many of the racial injustices and black leaders from the American experience; and instead of listing the awful things that happened, Toure reverses them. For example:

-Hiphop never becomes materialistic and commercial, and continues as Black America’s CNN, putting knowledge on the street, building the political consciousness of a generation…

-Muhammad Ali wins a Nobel Peace Prize for his anti-Vietnam War efforts.

-Basquiat survives heroin—Sly survives coke—Pryor survives himself.

-Stevie Wonder is named Poet Laureate.

Some them are socio-political, some are pop-culture. As a whole is seems at first like a childish exercise, a little naïve even, but given the entirety of the list, by the end it hits home in a way that is both powerful and depressing.

Rating: 7-8-8-7 Total= 30