Bro said "plantation of the mind" ⛓👇 When appropriation is the default, right? In this powerful 1978 interview, Archie Shepp reflects not only on nostalgia, but on how Black music was born from struggle, and then sold back to us diluted. He names what too many fear to say (and what we say all the time about MSM): that the mainstream appropriates and defangs Black sound. Cooptation is when art that once cried freedom gets rebranded as background music for brunch. Shepp reminds us that jazz was n