Aldo Tambellini with poster “Black Is the Color, Space is the Place”, poster from the European Media and Arts Festival in Germany, 2010.

Again I sit in Autumn’s rain and fog feeling betrayed by the human’s capacity to destroy, to cause indescribable pain, to remain indifferent, opportunistic and quite deliberately blind to the suffering of others.

War, poverty and other predatory scripts are not fixed, but mutable – as vulnerable to annihilation as any sickness. The last evolution asks only that we become truly decent.

My parents were Black Southerners who met at Hampton Institute (now University) in Virginia. They were dedicated students. My father, Clifford R. Snellings, was an agriculture student, but he desired to attend medical school. He was an outstanding football player and all around athlete. My mom, Nancy was quite artistic, studied Home Economics, and sang in the then famous Hampton choir…