Editorial: Calling Today's Black Artists to Take Positive Pages From History.

Editorial Note: The following is part essay, part poem, part editorial. Get whatever you can from it.

Words By Raymond Tyler

ART...is IMPORTANT.

If it is your goal to make no difference?

Then Please....

go into 

CONSTRUCTION.

I hope that every other painting

 I PRODUCE...
ENCOURAGES MY SISTERS TO TAKE OUT HER HAIR RELAXER AND ENJOY HER
AFRO
BUZZ CUT

OR
BALD HEAD.

I am not calling for images

that are

 un real

un rough

or squeaky clean.

I want to see 

BROOKLYN

looking
ROUGH

But In a way that makes

Brooklyn Better than Before You Added Your Art.

I am 

TIRED

of images

of movies

of poems

of hip hop

That makes me

TIRED

of being
BLACK

I want more stories

more pictures

that make me want to tell

my stories

show my pictures

so that someone will

want to 

tell their stories

show their pictures

I AM CALLING
PAUL ROBESON

Calling Singers with more to say in the interview

than 

COP MY CD THIS TUESDAY

What If Every

Artists Work Leads to 

FREEDOM

OR 

SLAVERY?

Then where is your art taking us?

Have You Chosen

Freedom

Have YOU Chosen

Slavery

Has The CHOICE
been made 

FOR YOU

Have You Let The Dollars

DECIDE

Calling 

HAZEL SCOTT

and 

Black Women That Can Smile For The Camera

Black Women That Can Put On A Show

With Out

The Fake Drama for more 

 Twitter Followers

With out The Sex Tape

to Get Interviews

Calling

The HAZEL SCOTTS

Off Broadway

and At Open Mics

And Blogging for The Thousands

Because The Millions Only Want You When You

Stereo Type

Yourself

NEGATIVELY

YOU ARE NEEDED ON STAGE

IMMEDIATELY

ART...

MATTERS...
You Could Set In Motion a Movement

that starts people to starting

BEFORE
THE SHOTS ARE FIRED

OR
You Could Set Us So Far Back 

THAT KIDS ARE SHOT
JUST FOR DRESSING LIKE YOU

ART HAS CHANGED THE WAY WE EDUCATE
OUR SELVES
MY
SELF
CREATED DIFFERENT WORLDS

I Know That Many Artists

Will Let

The Dollar Make Their Choice

 Let The Lime Light and Media Take Out

Make Their Choice
And I can not
DEMAND
that you CHOOSE
FREEDOM

Freedom

can be scary

can be lonely

can be unfair

can be un appreciated

But if You Have The Back Bone

to Bring Back
The Back Bone

I am calling YOU to the stage...

You are LONG OVER DUE FOR YOUR CLOSE UP

and some of us are READY...