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I guess its because I'm a guy, raised in the urban environment of Detroit, who promptly graduated into Virginia's prison system at the age of 20, then subsequently experienced everything the Commonwealth of Virginia pined for in its pursuit of all that is backwards and regressive as memorialized by E. Pollard in his LOST CAUSE, that I casually ignored that every fact of the existence of human life is correctly and accurately representative and as emphatic as what the Physics of Chaos and Fractals instructs of the environment and which Dialectical deconstruction handles so well. RESPECT, the movie on Sistah Aretha Franklin's, Life didn't sharpen my focus because of the Detroit connection, nor did her Iconic existence that had been, a take for granted backdrop to my entire existence, do it either. But when I noticed that from start to finish, beginning to end, even more so than the dummy us down "aw shucks" of Forrest Gump, RESPECT was one seamless panorama of Americana, I paid attention and saw not just Sistah Aretha's story but all the inflections of cunning reaction and where there is the reactionary narrative, also will we find its negation potential, which simply is the work of reform. I BEGIN: RESPECT, has resonance for all male, female and all in between. It ridiculously and boldly flips convention on its head, when with the opening scenes we encounter Forest Whittaker, playing Aretha Franklin's Preacher Dad, C.L. Franklin, having under his roof all that a type of religiosity would sanctimoniously badger as being "the world", as if, The World is some sort of alien environment, but Which we are honestly reminded by the movie, that a Preacher's living room IS the world. Whether C.L. Franklin, Aretha's Dad deliberately pursued the assemblage of the practical subjects and objects of his anticipated sermons in his living room, is besides the point, but what it does maturely identify is, that natural political condition of the social-Citizen irrespective of relationship terms with the Social Contract, which we are quickly reminded that the organic condition of Aretha's existence is inferior and subservient to that which exist outside of the walls of her Father's living room, which has to be so extremely existentially dire to her and theirs, that her Preacher Father would rather tightly embrace them and their heresies under his roof than have them subjected to whatever insufferables lurked outside. There is another germane statement, to the movie depicted dichotomy of the religious embrace of its purported antithesis, evidenced by Aretha's Dad, which is, the terms and its systemic and generalized circumstance of Black American life and existence were more of a characterization of religious sin than the whitewashing of that contradictory generalization of again religious invidious sin. This display is the exact same narrative nature of the imprisonment scheme in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the work of its reform. Just as Aretha's life as depicted in the movie RESPECT, heightens our understanding and perception, we see reaction by the Virginia Prison Official, their Republican and Conservative allies and Virginia Corporate and mainstream media shills also sharpening our recognition in their revealed corruption in critiques our ancestors, in anticipation of our work of reform and holding accountable governance and the Government Official in its form of the Virginia Prison Official have given and provided us as being irrefutable and unimpeachable analysis that such is the nature of the anti-accountability mind and its presumptions of being above the law and its impunity.
By William Thorpe
I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982
