What Makes Jesse Run?
July, 1988
What Makes Jesse Run?If Atlanta is the capital of the African American Nation in the black-belt South, then Chicago is the capital of black America. Hot is always preferred to cold in the African aesthetic. Yet Chicago is so famous for its bone-shattering, paralyzing cold that it is cited as the site of the African god Oba, whose history transformed him into an icy, death-cold wind, the hawk. And from most accounts, Chicago is his present home.I mention all this to explain, in part, who Jesse Ja...