Space Is The Place-Sun Ra

Sun Ra had some very er....'unorthodox' solutions to a very painful reality for many people living in America in the post civl rights era.

Hey you guys-

I wanted to shed some light on a comment that Sun Ra made in this 7'd sci-fi movie, Space Is The Place.

He was at the time very conflicted and disillusioned about American race relations, and many Black artists were shunned is they did not asopt a separatist or nationsalist satnce back in the late sixties and seventies. It was more manipulation by forces who thrive on division, un my opinion.

I do apologize if anybody found what he said to be divisive, as anyone who has seen my videos knwos that I see music as the force to unite the people of the world.

Here is what Sun Ra has to say about his earlier flirtations with nationalism:

Sun Ra and black culture
According to Szwed Sun Ra's view of his relationship to black people and black cultures "changed drastically" over time. Initially, Sun Ra identified closely with broader struggles for black power, black political influence, and black identity, and saw his own music as a key element in educating and liberating blacks. But by the heyday of black power radicalism in the 1960s, Sun Ra was expressing disillusionment with these aims, and he denied feeling closely connected to any race. In 1970 he said:

I couldn't approach black people with the truth because they like lies. They live lies … At one time I felt that white people were to blame for everything, but then I found out that they were just puppets and pawns of some greater force, which has been using them … Some force is having a good time [manipulating black and white people] and looking, enjoying itself up in a reserved seat, wondering, "I wonder when they're going to wake up