From: grisso@TheAfrican.Com
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:06:53 -0500
To: PAUL GRANT 
Subject: Re: The Matrix

Hi Paul,

Thank you for taking the time to write.  I do appreciate the
feedback and the encouragement.

I think you make a good point that the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar
really should have been all Black.  That would have made a
point, wouldn't it?  But you and I both know that that would
never happen in this world as we know it.  Not even Spike Lee
would have been brave enough to do that.  And of course, I
would argue that the film makers have in any case another idea,
which was the point of my article.

About Cipher, I think you are right that betrayal presupposes
trust, and it is usually one of our own who gets into such a
position.  So in the real world of the African liberation
movement, it is sad but true that betrayals, when they come, 
come from our own.  They are called "sellouts", and their
asking price can be shockingly low.  But if it is true my 
contention that the movie is in code, and the very name Cipher
used in the movie is the signal that there is indeed a message
in code hidden in the movie, then a Black character in that
role would have messed up the message for them.  I think.

I have a brother in Toronto that I visit from time to time,
usually around Caribana.  I am very interested in networking
with brothers of like mind, so let's keep in touch regardless.
I'm not (yet) on the lecture circuit, but that's something
I would welcome.

Thanks again for taking the time to write.

Peace,
Grisso