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The movie Belly came along in 1998, rather late in the game, after DC's homicide rate had peaked in the early 90's. The screenplay was written by Hype Williams and Nas.

If that million dollar crib in Belly was the Belly, what might Jonah have learned as he fled from Africa in that whale, or Moses in that basket? By 1998 and certainly by 2010, Jonah must have learned like W.E.B. duBois that a sweepstakes won by duBois' Talented Tenth who can succeed in a white majority circus maximus might earn a million dollar crib but without fulfilling important natural and cultural yearnings. W.E.B. duBois gave up because the untalented nine out of ten do not get the million dollar crib and because the Talented Tenth have to avoid mentioning any uncomfortably police-military-keynesian-commoditized difficulties which the allegedly untalented ninety percent may be having or even to express uncommoditized but vital culture. I eat weeds, you eat spinach. Talented Tenth still have a nameless invisible face left behind with the allegedly untalented ninety percent, and this has been called the schizophrenia of the comfortably commoditized.

In 1990, a few blocks south of the US Capitol building, I found a CIA flyer which included the phrase,"Drug gangs are the beginning of economic and political enfranchisement for the black man". Again we see the million dollar crib offered to commoditize W.E.B. duBois' Talented Tenth like Bilderbergers held out the White House to Barack Obama.

Talented Tenth like W.E.B. duBois and Stokely Carmichael can leave Belly, the million dollar crib, biblical prosperity of fools that as a home alienates by commoditizing, fractures a person into two more deeply than the usual marketable social politeness, and go back to Africa as Belly.

The allegedly untalented nine out of ten who have tried the corner life are in 2010 still living with their mothers, that Belly. Mother and Africa have something to say, and if the market denies you a million dollar crib as a failed narcissistic infantilist brother killer, try another Belly or two for your self-image and one-one for all; try a Belly that is neither a zero sum game or winner-take-all sweepstakes.