It is often said, “If you want to hide an important message from Black folks, put it in a book”. Today, if you want to hide the continued struggles of Black America, your response to Kendrick would be, “I did not understand a word you said.” We are still looking for love in all the wrong places!

His message is so important, the NFL has barred me from showing you the link that explains Kendrick Lamar’s half-time show at the Super Bowl. His message is that important to black, brown people and our youth. The NFL is requiring you go to YouTube so they can get paid for the views.

It is important that you check out his message, and I promise you will come away a “WOKE” person. See the link description below on YouTube, where his 13-minute message is explained in 17 minutes. He beat the NFL at its own game! ‘Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Performance Explained: Hidden Messages and Cultural Commentary‘.

The response reminded me of how African Villages communicated and stayed a step ahead of white slave hunters via the drum. Slaves brought to America communicated via gospel hymns. It took them decades to understand the messages sent by the drum and gospel hymns.

Kendrick Lamar is selling out NFL and MLB stadiums on his American tour. Someone must understand what he is saying!

During his performance at NW Stadium, I discovered Kendrick had taken rap to another level.

His 2017 album Damn won five Grammys, including Best Rap Album, and became the first non-classical or jazz work to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He’s won 37 BET Hip Hop Awards, 11 MTV Video Music Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

“Not Like Us” exposes the on-going Crabs in the Barrel, Player Haters, envy and jealous mentally that keeps us in the back of the bus. Common sense is no longer common in our community.

His storytelling throughout his performances portrays the complexities of modern Black American life.

His half-time Super Bowl performance was the most viewed in NFL history. The show was seen by 133 million viewers, surpassing Michael Jackson and Prince’s performances. I attended his concert at NW Stadium in Prince George’s County, Maryland, home of the NFL Commanders.

He is without a doubt the GREATEST RAPPER in the World. The 1% has tried to impose Critical Race Theory (CRT) in our education system, barring Black History from being taught in our schools.

If you listened closely, you would learn Kendrick’s messages are delivered in his choreography and lyrics. He has borrowed from the ‘Original Rappers’ Oscar Brown, Jr, Curtis Mayfield, Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Marvin Gaye, Muhammad Ali, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (Wake Up Every Body).

Kendrick Lamar has taken the teaching of Black History to another level, via rap music, lyrics and choreography on stage and in social media.

Too many black adults are caught up in the profanity and his ongoing feud with rival rapper Drake, it is nothing new. All of that is a camouflage for his REAL message.

Kendrick explains, the charade of promises never kept, “Forty-Acres and a Mule. The context of the phrase in the performance was part of a larger commentary on social justice and racial inequality in America”. 

Kendrick’s performance at NW Stadium included other symbolic elements, such as a distorted American flag, a prison yard set design, and references to gaming and mass incarceration. His lyrics and choreography reinforced the theme of systemic oppression and the fight for liberation. 

If you thought the NFL owners and Roger Goodell had a clue to his 13 minute presentation, he would have never got in the stadium. I think Jay Z has booked his last half-time show for the NFL.

Kendrick is saying, “You can run, but you cannot hide from the TRUTH”!

The best example: The Black Farmer has been cheated and bamboozled out of his promised of 40 Acres and a Mule since 1865. Those promises were made and never kept.

The baton was passed on to the modern-day slave owner, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. He was appointed by Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden to sit at the door and block the Black Farmers’ progress. Millions of dollars designated by Biden to help rescue the black farmers never reached them.

The funds for them went directly to the white farmer. The Black Farmer was required to fill out an application of 40 pages, plus 10 to qualify. The white farmer’s funds went directly to his bank.

The Congressional Black Caucus sat on the sidelines and gave the Black Farmer a “HEAD FAKE LEFT” while they went to the RIGHT for a, “Party Over Here and Party Over There”, during Caucus week ends.

Today’s exceptions: There are ‘NEW’ sheriffs on The Hill, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), llhan Omar (D-Minn), Jasmine Crockett (D-Tex) and the only man with balls to say “No Mas”, Al Green (D-Tex).

One sheriff, Jasmine Crockett, threw her hat in the ring to replace the late Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia as ranking member on the House Oversight Committee. She withdrew her candidacy after receiving only 6 votes within the Democratic party. She needed 150 votes to secure a decisive victory.

Crockett summarized her withdrawal, saying, “It was clear by the numbers that my style of leadership is not exactly what they were looking for, and so I did not think it was fair for me to push forward.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was thrown under the bus by Adam Schiff (D-Cali) for suggesting impeachment for President Trump after he bombed Iran without getting approval from Congress.

This is political player-hating at its best. She refused to play the game, smile, bow down, and kiss every jackass she encountered. In the meantime, black and brown people are treated like criminals and carted off to jail, and little children’s blood flows in our streets. This is no time to be young, gifted, and black in America.

In 2009, U. S. Attorney Eric Holder, as a cabinet member of the Obama Administration, addressed a Black History Month forum at the Department of Justice. He dropped a bomb as it related to racism in America.

He declared, “Americans wrongly consider the United States a melting pot. In things racial, we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards and bullies.”

It took a whole lot of balls to make that statement as a black man and politician, but it was the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In 2025, Donald Trump made him a prophet.

We have a bunch of clowns in social media with podcasts; they don’t have a clue. The biggest fraud and con artist is Stephen A. Smith. He is the hollering and screaming clown you can find on ESPN’s “First Take.”

I played football and basketball for the legendary basketball coach, Clarence ‘Bighouse’ Gaines at Winston-Salem State in Winston-Salem, NC. In 2007, the Alumni Association paid tribute to Bighouse in Chicago. I was awarded the first ever, Bighouse Gaines Community Service Award.

Big Man on campus, Clarence ‘BigHouse’ Gaines & HB in Chicago.

After the tribute, we were sitting around in the lobby reminiscing about days gone by. My teammate and roommate, Barney Hood, brought up the name of Stephen A. He asked Bighouse what kind of player he was, Bighouse didn’t miss a beat, his response, “He could not play dead”! NBA players seem to think along those same lines. Stephen A. and his 1.5 college basketball average are laughing all the way to the bank.

Podcast talk show host Roland Martin, and Black Farmer supporter Corey Lea had different opinions on how to support Black Farmers.

The breakdown in communications with Martin and Lea seems to be personal. Martin refused to interview Black Farmers in the field, trying to save their farms, or to Lea, who was in and out of courtrooms around the country, trying to get the funds Vilsack refused to make available.

John Boyd, who seems to be living in the lap of luxury, was Martin’s mouthpiece on the Roland Martin Podcast, with head cheerleader and wannabe, Scott Bolden, another fraud.

Whoever said, “Black Don’t Crack” has not visited ‘The Hill’ lately. There are three women, who are our warriors and risk takers. They don’t sit on the fence and wait to see which lane is safe to travel. They travel in the Right Lane above the speed limit.

When Ocasio-Cortez was disrespected on the Capitol steps by a white Congressman, she called a meeting of her colleagues to discuss the matter. Al Green was the only Black MAN to show up!

In the meantime, too many Black Farmers have lost their lands and lives waiting for Black Leadership to lead! The leadership that has become null and void.

My friend and Spingarn High School football teammate, Lawrence Lucas, has been on the front lines in this struggle for almost 30 years. He joined John Boyd and Corey Lea in the 1990s. He has been the leading voice for the ‘Black Farmers for Justice’.

1957, the teammates are still in the struggle. Lucas No. 55 standing on the back row, left, and HB on the back row with a helmet under my arm.

After college Lucas worked abroad in Addis Ababa, the Capitol of Ethiopia for the Mapping and Geography Institute from 1965-1970. After that assignment, he returned home and became a speech writer with the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

Lucas, has worked closely on behalf of the Black farmer with Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont), and Corey Booker (D-NJ). Many black farmers today feel that black leadership failed them. There is little or no togetherness, their eyes are not on the prize–EQUALITY.

Kendrick is 38 years old and hails from Compton, California. I was introduced to his rap choreography and lyrics by musician King Shaza in 2019. Shaza is known as the Godson of Rap. In the 60s and 70s when the legendary Gil Scott-Heron went on the road for live concerts, King was his opening act.

I find it amusing that Black folks are still trying to interpret Kendrick’s message (especially black adults). More than likely, they are waiting for Ken Burns ‘The Keeper’ of Black History on PBS to produce a documentary on rap music. He would then interpret Kendrick’s message to them for them!

Muhammad Ali-Harold Bell-Gil Scott-Heron & Kendrick Lamar, saw something and said something!

Email from Dr. Harry Edwards (2014), Dr. Edwards was leader of the 1968 boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City.

H,

CONGRATULATIONS!  Your archives are valuable and should be given the broadest exposure. Have you thought about offering discs of your programs to the new Smithsonian Institution NATL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE (NMAAHC). A wing of the NMAAHC WILL BE DEDICATED TO THE STRUGGLE IN SPORTS AND WILL BE TITLED “LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD”,  Your work was a major force over the years in leveling the playing field, especially, in terms of the struggle to define and “PROJECT OUR TRUTH”.

I will send you a contact involved in putting the NMAAHC together.

Great job over the years,  great timing in reprising that legacy now.

The best wishes of me and my family to your wife-she is in our thoughts and prayers.

Dr. Harry Edwards Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 30, 2014 at 3:05 PM

Meet the press: H Rap Brown-Tommie Smith-Dr. Harry Edwards & Stokely Carmichael in DC 1969.

THE DEFINITION OF COURAGE: WHEN A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS!

NOTEWORTHY: Meet Zohran Mamdani, Keeping Hope Alive on the Breakfast Club. This is the kind of politician who will give all Americans hope. We must stop rewarding and honoring crooks and thieves. And those who go along to get along. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mb_i6o50oU

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