State of the Art | Kraig Blue

State of the Art | Kraig Blue

We’ve been primed for Oppression

Kraig Blue

I’m a Creator. I am an illustrator, a fine artist, sculpturist, I do photography and I make music.

I’m currently working on a floral project with the RiverBank State Park GreenHouse, due late April. I am a percussion player and I’m working with K and L productions in Harlem on music. It encompasses hip-hop, jazz and funk.

I’m also developing a documentary with a company called El Guapo Films in California. This project surrounds my experiences as a black surfer. I plan to include and visit New York, California, Jamaica, Africa, Brazil, Hawaii, Tahiti and Iran. There’s a stereotype that black people don’t have a relationship with the water. From my research, I’ve come to find the following: It’s been documented by Portuguese and English sailors that off of the coast of Africa -from Ghana to Angola- indigenous people were using their boats and planks to ride and play with the water. This was the 1640s, which predates the 1770 Hawaiian recorded instances. African people did have a strong relationship with the ocean! I also intend on speaking with the families of surfers and their experiences with the water.

I went to the New York Institute of technology in 1985 to study architecture but by 1989, I was enrolled in the Illustration program of the Fashion Institute of Technology. From 1991 I started pursuing art with the tools that I’ve been given in school. In 2015 I got my degree from the Laguna College of Arts and Design and then I got my masters in Studio Art from the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2019. My intention is to increase my value and to obtain residencies, grants and to be a professor.

Art has been therapeutic to me because it is the absolute expression of freedom to me. I do what I want regardless of whether people like it or not. Fortunately people enjoy my work! It comes from a place of pure inspiration and as long as I’m grateful, opportunities will continue to come.

Through art, I will continue to teach children how to think critically and how to research. For example, I stopped pledging allegiance to the flag long ago and my students would ask me: why do you do that? I’d tell them: so let’s see who we are pledging allegiance to. A country that enslaved our ancestors? Did the police kill another person of color? Does this mean I’m pledging allegiance to a government that doesn’t chastise, fire or imprison officers that kill black and brown people? Do I feel good about that?

Now concerning the pandemic; after careful observation, my friends and I began looking at the totality of things and realized something was wrong with the narrative. Based on people like Dr. Lee Merritt, Dr. Dolores Cahill, Michel Chossvdovsky and even Robert Malone (the inventor of MRNA), who were posing a different view on what our governor and mayor were saying. I started to think critically about this and I knew something was wrong. Magical vaccinations are created by questionable pharmaceutical companies that are now going to save the world? That brought me a little closer to my conclusion.

In my book of anti establishment- revolutionaries: The Black Panther Party- Che Guevara- Malcolm X- Muhammad Ali. Any of our leaders, activists and revolutionaries would not condone taking this vaccination from this government or the pharmaceutical companies.

Most societies, and communities, have been primed early on with fictional narratives. I don’t celebrate American holidays because I’m a direct descendent of enslaved Africans, so Christianity brings me no solace. It hasn’t changed anything, it hasn’t made white supremacy any less tolerable, it hasn’t made it disappear. What am I actually symbolically celebrating? The colonization of indigenous and enslaved African people. I don’t condone or subscribe to these things because I want to live in reality.

Once you convince society of these fictional narratives, lie to them, give over your power it’s only a matter of time until fear based narratives are put into your mind. Then it spreads nationally, or globally, and they can convince us of anything! We are continually convinced that we’re a sick population with diabetes, heart attacks, high cholesterol, high blood pressure etc. You need drugs to make yourself better, not health initiatives or good eating habits. “Take a drug, it will make you feel better”. Once this is placed within the national narrative and ideology, they can convince us of anything!

With 911, it was about our freedom being attacked and the antagonist was Al-Qaeda and the Islamic religion. Bush stole the election, collapsed the economy and was a horrible leader. Yet, all of a sudden in the popularity ratings people supported him in going to war. This was based on a claim of weapons of mass destruction. There were none, but underneath they wanted oil and strategically based military presence in the Middle-East. After which they soothed the public’s consciousness and spirit by electing the first so-called African-American president. He had swagger and was eloquent! Everybody lost their sense of place and their anger. We forget, he destabilized and destroyed an African nation called Libya and assassinated their president.

Then we get Donald Trump out of nowhere, we should’ve known that a critical shift was about to happen if he was vetted to become president. Enter the pandemic.

In the rush of picking someone ‘better’ we chose between two evils and went for Joe Biden, who in 1994 was one of the main authors of the crime bill under President Clinton. This bill caused the privatization of the prison industrial system. Joe Biden would’ve lost to Donald Trump if Kamala Harris hadn’t been selected. During her tenure in California, she incarcerated hundreds of thousands of underprivileged brown and black people. When you begin connecting historical dots you see that the population was primed, even my own family members, were primed to be scared into a situation. Into a decision that they didn’t fully understand.

Americans, and their ideological arrogance about being the greatest country in the world, causes us not to admit that we didn’t have all the information about what is being injected into our bodies. This is an experimental vaccination and it involves mRNA (messenger RNA), it deals with genetics. For me that’s a red flag! For a person that’s afraid and believes in their

country and government, all of these narratives and ideologies primed the average person around the world to do something as ridiculous as taking an experimental vaccination. We were not properly informed of the long term side effects. What’s this going to do ten years from now? What is it going to do to our children?! That’s diabolical.

See, over the last ten years new thoughts about eating have been introduced into the American consciousness with documentaries like Forks over knives, What the health and similar films. High blood pressure, diabetes, dementia, autism can all be affected by what you eat. People started to think about treating things naturally instead of pharmaceutically.

Why are these three major pharmaceutical companies suddenly gods in their industry? They say we can’t have socialized healthcare in America because it increases taxes and we don’t have enough money. Then Joe Biden comes out and says we are pulling out $1.9 billion to get everybody vaccinated! If you have that kind of money why isn’t there a socialized healthcare system, money for housing or hunger? Why can’t you forgive student loans? Fix the infrastructure? Pfizer made 38 billion dollars. All of the politicians are going to get some cut back on this because they’re invested in fortune 500 companies. The population is expendable. People should be rioting but we are confused. Politicians do not have our best interest at heart; they care about the bottom line.

Now they’re lifting the mandates. You don’t have to use your vaccination card. Why would they do that? Because their quota has been met! Not to mention, the long-term side effects that will not be related to the vaccination -but- you have sick people for at least two or three generations who now need more pharmaceutical drugs! Let’s ask ourselves: why did they do this? They want people to be sick in the future. Over 62% of Americans have been vaccinated. From their point of view, ‘they did pretty good!’

By definition this was not a pandemic. They convinced us of it through fear and got people to inject themselves by holding their jobs and livelihood hostage.

Take religion for example. If I scare you into thinking that your everlasting eternal soul could go to hell, then your critical thinking goes right out the window!

People want to discuss Black History Month with me? Well, you shouldn’t have taken the vaccination because Muhammad Ali wouldn’t have taken it, neither would Malcolm X. I don’t think Martin Luther King would’ve taken it! He was a freedom fighter.
His platform was peaceful resistance based on the writings and practices of Mahatma Gandhi. What is not talked about are his speeches on reparations before he died. He had such a following amongst all races of people and would’ve gotten increased support for his updated ideologies! Malcom X was easy to demonize, even amongst black people, because he was a Muslim. MLK was a Christian and a reverend who was beaten and imprisoned; he solely used his words and policy. The topics of equal pay/ housing and reparations were definitely not supported within the white racist power structure. He had to go!

Do we think the Black Panthers would’ve been like: “Yes! Vaxx me up!” They would never have taken a vaccine from a corrupt government nor the corrupt pharmaceutical companies that are only about profit.

If an African American person tells you they’re woke, run the other way! It doesn’t need a label, it needs action! I’ve become skeptical of the Black Lives Matter movement. I think they started from a good place but have somehow been co-opted. BLM was for a new generation which I’m totally about- it’s great. However, the strategy of protesting only works for a certain part of the

resistance. The next part, and true change of policy, comes with non-compliance. I don’t have to be in the streets to be non-compliant!

The strategy of protesting worked at a certain point in history, but governments around the world realized that they should let us protest, be angry and hold up our signs. Nothing will change! They will feel good about it though but tomorrow they will all be back at work.

How about we don’t go to work when a murder happens or legislation that affects the population negatively? How about we don’t send our kids to school? Imagine there are no nurses in the hospital, no service employees anywhere. It’s the people that help the system run! That’s a deeper, more impactful message.

Our government lets the police kill people with total autonomy? How about we don’t show up and shut the system down until we get policy change- today? You do have power, you go to work for a company that enhances, promotes and perpetuates the system. When you take that away, you understand your power.

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