Thursday, February 4, 2021 • The buLLeTIN
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ceive our various identities as people — you
are a very dangerous community member. If
you think that you can simply write a check to
donate some funds, if you think you can go to
a soup kitchen one time, if you think you can
give somebody five bucks, if you think that
you can simply put up some Facebook posts, if
you think that you can simply join a cause or
buy something from a nonprofit or whatever
— as a finite action, as an all-in good action,
you are entirely missing the point around this
deeper ethical investigation. If you are truly an
ethical person, you are constantly questioning
and unsure of whether or not you are doing
enough to be clear about what your ethical
stance is.
“YOU GONE BE OK,” J MEAST
J Meast has been a fixture of Bend’s hip-
hop scene for nearly a decade, splitting his
time between the city and California. He re-
cently released “4 the Mob 4,” the conclud-
ing installment of the “4 the Mob” EP series,
and is working on a sequel to his 2016 EP,
“Sip on This.” Look for a new single with
Philthy Rich coming soon.
“You Gone Be OK” is from “4 the Mob 3.”
ALL THINGS MUSIC
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What are your feelings on Black History
Q:
Month in general, and the tokenism as-
pects that come up with it?
I guess you could say as a Black person
A:
I’m appreciative that they would set aside
a whole month for us. I guess it does kind of
bother me a little bit that we get the shortest
month of the year, but it is what it is I guess. At
least it’s appreciated and it’s talked about and
honored. That’s the good and that’s the beauty
of it. As far as Black History Month, I mean,
it’s Black History Day for me every day. But to
have a month that just honors Black people,
that’s appreciated because I feel like we deserve
that.
As far as the Black Lives Matter move-
ment, I’m also appreciative of that as well. It’s
something that’s needed and it’s something
that needs to continue. I wish that people
would understand that it doesn’t necessarily
mean that we’re just trying to push every-
body out and say, “Oh, it’s only about Black
lives.” At the end of the day, I feel that it’s
more or less Black people trying to be heard
and trying to get a valid point across and
just be respected and be treated equal. … It’s
more or less to let people know that we want
the violence to stop towards Black people.
I’m a Black man in America, so it’s just
A:
the same with me every day. I have a son.
When he gets old enough, I have to install that
in him and let him know how to carry himself
as a Black man in America. He’ll have to do
the same when he has kids. … I’m not saying
that every day I’m singled out or I’m experi-
encing racism every day. I have definitely ex-
perienced racism, and I’ve experienced a lot
of those things. But I still have to carry myself
properly every day and be safe and make sure
that my family is safe.
MARIA JACKSON
Submitted photo
Singer Maria Jackson recently moved to Bend
and started a collaboration with guitarist Maya
Hendrix.
It’s not needed. If you want to make an ar-
rest, make an arrest, but killing somebody
in the process of making an arrest is just not
OK, and it happens a lot to Black people.
Do things feel different now with Black
Lives Matter coming to the forefront last
year?
Q:
A newcomer to the Central Oregon mu-
sic scene, singer Maria Jackson is originally
from Baltimore, Maryland. She works as a
traveling nursing assistant, including in Or-
egon for the past couple of years. In the last
few months, she has made Bend her home
base.
After diving into the local karaoke scene,
she teamed up with her best friend, guitar-
ist Maya Hendrix, to form a duo and work
on original music. They have no record-
ings yet, which is why this playlist is miss-
ing their track, but you can check out live
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