The C.O.W.S. Gil Scott-Heron THE LAST HOLIDAY Part 4

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the 4th study session on Gil Scott-Heron's memoir, The Last Holiday. A poet, author, musician and victim of White Supremacy, Scott-Heron died in 2011. He wrote and performed music that explicitly addressed black lives and how the System of White Supremacy brutalizes black people. Iconic selections like "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and "White on the Moon" encourage many to list Scott-Heron as one of the founders of hip-hop music. Last week's session described how Gil's mother adjusted to being diabetic and how his mother's health scare made him leave his interview for the exclusive white high school in New York. Gil was accepted to the new school and declared that not one of students or faculty was Racist. He did take time to vividly detail a White instructor who hoped to have Scott-Heron tarred and feathered, or at least stuck with a week of detention, for playing "boogie woogie" music on the expensive school piano. After high school, Gil matriculated to Lincoln University, an HBCU in Pennsylvania. With a White president at the helm, the school became coed one year before Gil's 1967 freshman year. Gil said he was partly motivated to complete his first book, The Vulture, so that he could showoff to all his black classmates, friends and family members - corroborating Mr. Neely Fuller Jr.'s concern about the prevalence and worthlessness of showing off to other black people. We'll compare The Last Holiday to the other biographies covered on our book club - Maya Angelou, Assata Shakur, Malcolm X. #AnswersForMiriamCarey INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/GusTRenegade CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE 564943#