Paper rights with blood splatters over them.

The new Rorschach test.

What do you see?

I see black empowerment.

I see Strange Fruit

falling

from the tree of Ubuntu.

I see blue is the new black.

What did I do to be so black and blue?

I see Tumi

singing

“My black president does me wrong”

I see them

singing

the song of days long gone

now our freedom’s gone for a song.

— colony

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  • Adam Haupt writes about film, media, culture and copyright law. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town and is the author of Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion (HSRC Press, 2008) and Static: Race & Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media & Film (HSRC Press, 2012). In 2010, he was a Mandela Mellon Fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

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Adam Haupt

Adam Haupt writes about film, media, culture and copyright law. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town and is the author of Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop...

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