Gulfography was inspired by an exhibit called Privately by Shammi Samano in Dubai, which showcased the photographs of female Emirati college students. The exhibit was praised for being a “remarkably honest and spellbinding” look at lives of young women in the UAE. Wanting to continue to share the journey of Privately, we decided to get virtual and create an on-going global exhibit that can cross geographical and even ideological boundaries.
I found this short piece about women artists in the UAE and the lives of young women. It is a great example of how art can be used to communicate both the tortured present and a future with greater liberty. A future I for one wish to see in the Middle East. The performing and visual arts can be very powerful means of communication. It is something I wish we would do more of in the Conservative/ Liberty community.
Today I want to give over the space in my blog to a good friend Rob Gaudet who has worked tirelessly to help CL Bryant with his movie Runaway Slave.
C. L. Bryant is an incredible conservative and was brought into the movement by Gaudet in early 2009. The movie is currently being shown in Bossier, LA and they need conservatives to show how committed they are to supporting the movie in wider distribution.
Rob has been content to work for years in the background so others can shine, and I thought his request most eloquent and wanted to reproduce it in full here.
Please do anything you can to help with BUY OUT BOSSIER and then do what you can to bring Runaway Slave to your community.
If you’re tired of Michael Moore, who hates America, getting the attention when he does a documentary. We need your help!
Everyone agrees that the Runaway Slave has the capacity to change the hearts of people that we otherwise could not possibly reach and we need to generate buzz.
My little town in North Louisiana, Bossier City has become ground zero for how well the film Runaway Slave by Rev CL Bryant does nationwide. It has been showing exclusively here for a week now and we had tepid success last weekend with one sold out show. This coming weekend, July 13-15th, is critical that we fill all seats.
Our campaign is called BUY OUT BOSSIER (#BuyOutRunawaySlave) and are asking grassroots citizens across the country to buy at least one ticket even if they can’t go.
Distributors are watching this coming weekend closely to determine how many theaters across the country they will play it in.
We MUST get at least seven sold out showings. The great thing is that not all ticket buyers have to be here, even if you can’t go, you can still buy a ticket on Fandango.com (area code 71111), sat or sun showings preferably. If anyone has capacity to buy a block or a whole showing, even better.
Here in Bossier, we have an uphill battle and need some national help, that is why I am writing to all of you.
The movie is competing with big releases such as Spider Man, it is in an older theater in Bossier City which is the smaller of two sister cities, Shreveport being the other.
Enjoy this radio spot we are running this 75 times beginning tomorrow in the market over 4 days for weekend of July 13th-15th, feel free to share this.
Kudos to Teri Cristoph and ShePAC for taking a stand on the left’s war on women.
This video, their first effort, is fantastic and needs to be watched and shared until it goes viral. It documents Bill Maher’s disgusting comments HBO about Sarah Palin and her daughters as well as other conservative women. Don’t forget to use #waronwomen when tweeting.
Breitbart.com has made headlines once again by revealing a video of Barack Obama at Harvard speaking in favor of the views of Derrick Bell, whose scholarship was influential in creating and promoting the field of Critical Race Theory.
Critical Race Theory, like any critical theory project, uses the tenets of Neo-Marxist thought to examine Race in a specific time and place, which for Bell’s purposes is contemporary American life.
Luckily for us, Professor Bell, took the time to pen a short story “Space Traders” which provides us with an allegorical version the his views of race relations, as seen through the lens of Critical Race Theory. It is this view of society that the then editor of the Harvard Law Review was endorsing in the video.
The title “Space Traders” allows for an easy slippage into two other terms on which the allegory is based: “Race Traders” and “Race Traitors”. As this is a racial allegory the terms serve to define the two races as depicted within the movie.
“Race Traders” of course is a euphemism for “Slave Traders” and is the focus of the first part of the film. This segment of the movie focuses on the offer of the “aliens” who chose the face of Ronald Reagan to present the offer of an American utopia of no debt, unlimited clean free energy and a cleaned up environment to the America’s political representatives, in exchange for dark skinned blacks. While the movie posits itself as happening post 1998, Bell uses contemporary Republican names from 1994 to smear the Republican party as racist slavers. It references both a “Vice President D’Amato” a reference to then siting New York Republican Senator Alfonse D’Amato and a “Secretary of State Buchanan” an obvious reference to conservative commentator Pat Buchanan who had run for President in 1992 against George Bush, on a conservative platform that was often attacked as racist for his desire to secure the border and halt illegal immigration by the construction of a border fence. It also mentions a “President Taylor” which is a probable reference to Congressional Representative Charles Taylor of North Carolina’s 11th district, who in his first term was a member of the “Gang of Seven” that exposed the House Banking Scandal as well as the House Post Office scandal, both of which showed the then Democratic leadership of the House as corrupt and helped to lead to the Republican Revolution of 1994.
The scene shifts from the initial beach scene where the offer is made, to the bunker where President Taylor and his racist administration sit around a large circular table and discuss the offer. The offer while initially referenced as “crazy” is quickly justified based on the economic benefits of the reduction of government programs such as welfare and food stamps. While the military objects based on a loss of manpower, their objections are quickly overcome by the promise of bigger weapons possible with the prospect of unlimited energy. Indeed, the trade is seen as a form of a “draft” of black America to provide for the future of the country via patriotic service. The elimination of the black electorate is also seen as a “benefit” by the administration. All the faces are making these arguments are white, with the exception of one, a “Professor Golightly” who appears to be an lifelong Republican economist who has argued against affirmative action and racial preferences. Based on the depiction of the individual and the time period it is most likely a reference to the great Thomas Sowell. The Professor argues against the trade based on a moral objection to either banishment or annihilation, but no one ever argues for the inherent worth of the individual. Rather the only problem seen is one of spin control, and a whether the aliens can deliver on their promise. With proof of the ability to deliver the administration decides to set up a phone poll, (via MCI) to decide the fate of Black America.
This first segment serves as the depiction of the institutional racism that Derrick Bell believes exists at the heart of our country. My next post will examine Bell’s depiction of the response of the “Race Traitors” in black community and civil rights movement to the offer.
