I wanted to bring it down a notch, with the holiday weekend here. The Enjoy life segment is early so here’s a throwback video from the first group that introduced me to hip hop music and opened my eyes to music in general De La Soul ‘Roller skate Jam…It’s Saturday’ Saturday is the best day of the week!! I have some treats lined up for next week so until then… Enjoy the holiday. Eat some BBQ(not pork)
Peas
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With all of the focus on Sen. Obama I realy feel like this was overshadowed. I honestly didn’t focus too much on it myself and I flipped on CNN and they were in New Orleans. Maybe on the 5th anniversary there will be a big emphasis but for what. This is definitely one of two major tragedies I can blame on the Bush administration and to a larger extent Congress. The first being the Iraq war(9/11 would happened regardless) It still angers me and is a sense of extreme shame in my country for the way the city of New Orleans was ignored and a whole region of the U.S. the gulf coast! Why should I celebrate 4th of July? Why should I look at the flag with a sense of pride? This country has continuously failed poor people and people of color since it’s inception! This was probably the lowest our goverment has sank and if they got any lower I think government would be a non-factor because this was horrible. Like Nas said ‘I’m American born…American raised…I love my country…’ for the ideals we carry but we have so much baggage it weighs us down. I can’t be proud of the trail of tears, the tuskegee experiment, the fact Columbus day is still on the books as a holiday, the nearly 400 years of slavery and overt oppression. I can go on and on about so many different groups of people. There isn’t a connection amongst our people, our histories, clearly if the government feels so disconnected as to not help it’s own people; Citizens, many of whom were African-American with generations linked to this very land. Whose ancestors/relatives did not come through Ellis Island in the early 1900’s but who were brought here in 1619 to Virginia, to the caribbean then to points up and down the east coast, the gulf coast. Many of whom have caucasian and definitely Native American blood flowing through veins.
I have African ancestory but I and my family are connected to this land the U.S. through the blood, sweat and tears my ancestors have endured, for the buildings they built, this country they built free of charge! For the fact we are so disconnected with our true past that we had to create something entirely new here! The discrimination I myself have faced in the late 20th and early 21st century! This is paying homage to all those displaced gulf coast families, those in Baltimore, Atlanta, L.A., Houston wherever. To those who lost their lives on during Hurrican Katrina, for the blatant ignorant comments that expressed how people really felt about people of color regardless! i.e. ‘refugees’ not just the usage of the word but the dissmive tone in which it was used. For those that will never return to New Orleans. For New Orleans itself, for the crime that took place in the years that past, for the lower 9th ward. Like the phrase in reference to the those enslaved in the caribbean, U.S., South America ‘NEVER AGAIN’
Peace yall
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