"The task of the artist is determined always by the status and process and agenda of the community that it already serves... As a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible." Toni Cade Bambara
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous