Acknowledgments are in order for those who have stood up against the tumultuous blaring of the pied pipers’ propaganda and who in spite of unpopularity have gone a separate way; those who have taught me the right way to resist.
Bullet-prooflove is extended to Muhammad Abdullah and the Islamic Liberation Army, the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika, the Spear and Shield Collective, and all the forces involved in the New Afrikan independence movement to free the land.
Bullet-proof unity is extended to Ice Cube and Da Lench Mob, Public Enemy, X-Clan, Blackwatch, KRS-One, BDP, Paris, Operation from the Bottom, Digable Planets, Tupac Shakur, Ice-T, Kris Kross, and Bone from Athens Park Bloods.
Bullet-proof appreciation is extended to Bill Broyles and Karen Jensen-Germaine from ABC Productions for their invaluable help and inspiration with my project; Léon Bing for writing about us when it was unpopular to do so; Thomas Lee Wright for his incredible eye for detail and all-around friendship; and my agent, Lydia Wills, for her never-ending determination to go forward. Teflon bullets are sent to the sellouts.