Belly of the Least Privileged: A Video Drive Through Baltimore Hoods Blightmare - “the day-to-day obscenery within the waking dream of those entrapped knee-deep within the heart of the ghetto”

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Turdistan – any ghetto, ‘hood or “community” that’s a crime-ravaged shit-hole, hell-hole and economically disenfranchised, inner city war zone. In Turdistan shit goes down every minute but only lives go down the toilet while the same old shit stays afloat as social and economic programs s(t)ink due to budget cuts and widespread fratricide. “…for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own shit.” Turdistan is a state of mind, and then the condition and position of your ass. Free your kind and the mass will follow. Free your ass, and no one will mind (or question) what you follow.

transplantation – Black folk’s travel from the cotton fields of the plantation to the killing fields of the ghetto.

blightmare – the day-to-day obscenery within the waking dream of those entrapped knee-deep within the heart of the ghetto. A blightmare isn’t something you wake up from—but constantly wake up to. (See: Capital Punishment)

Fishbowl – a metaphor for the attrition of daily life, the ubiquity of oppression, violence, police brutality and the daily instances of repression and information suppression, especially in urban centers with a high percentage African-American population. 2) the combined inimical forces endlessly conspiring to cloud your bowl and make your life shitty in a million different ways each and every day for the majority of the world’s population, especially for those living in urban centers within developed nations and those relegated to squalor in underdeveloped nations. The fishbowl is a metaphor describing the accumulative effects of cultural imperialism on those subject to and victimized by its power and sway. While back up in Baltimore, I swam through the backup in Baltimore—swirling around, cloudy grey and brown, settling down on the rocky bottom of the fishbowl. Just because you’re in the dark, doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. If you take the stance, to just sit and wait it out, you also become the bait without a shadow of a doubt. The Fishbowl is equipped with a DPS device—deep political shit—domination duty. You just can’t seem to get away, and the market has made you the catch of the day! “We don’t know who discovered the ocean, but it certainly wasn’t the fish, because an all-pervasive environment is all but undetectable and beyond perception.” ~Marshall McLuhan. There for all the world to know—what we do, where we go, and with who. It’s all-out control, tell me do you feel exposed? Welcome one and all to the fishbowl! The fishbowl symbolizes an environment and existential condition that you can see your way out of, but the very seeing becomes the impediment for actually getting out because just the thought of leaving the place wherein you live and have your being is a scary revolutionary and seemingly-suicidal means to freedom—yet it is the only way to be free. While some must jump bail, others must have the courage and dignity to ‘jump free.’ “Living in a fishbowl. Life seems so small and cold—in a fishbowl. Now everywhere I seem to go, they already know in a fishbowl.” ~Jahiti & Brother Ooh (of BrownF.I.S.H.) “How could the fish not jump immediately from dry land into water when the sound of water from the ocean of fresh waves springs to his ear?” ~Rumi. Now, you see me and I see you too. Can’t hide nothing, you see, because it’s all see-through. (See: MEDIA, Surveillance, Culture, Propaganda, Hollow City, Colonization, Public Relations, Politics, Propaganda, Impropaganda, Orderlies, Police, Prison Industrial Complex, Oppression, Imperialism, Overlords & Rat Race)