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Article: Generation next, or the future of bad hair: text for a film by Greg Tate and Arthur Jafa. (authors; Black unity)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 1997
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Mama Tate says there are fifty black people in the world who know how to read and write, and they all know one another. Granddaddy Henry Grinner said no matter where you go in the world and no matter what you see, somewhere up in there you will find a negro.
As we saunter into the millennium the question arises, just whose black culture is it anyway? Who will define the terms of blackness for the next century? Our educated and privileged elites or our toiling masses and grassroots politicians? Our Fortune 500 companies or our hiphop nation? (If they aren't one and the same by the time you read this.)
Let's talk about Black, Inc. Who owns it, who ...