What up Blog family! I just got back from Germany/France this week…and I had to go back to work soooo hence the delay in blogs. All I have to say is WOW! Germany is bananas(in the good hip hop sense) I had so much fun and I learned a lot as well. On the heels of the democratic debate last night which I watched, I have to say the world wants Obama. That was the question of the trip, Obama? Seriously at least from what I saw in Germany this election is huge! Oh! I have to shout out Georgia Me whom I met in the airport on my way back home. We chopped it up and she had just got back from South Africa and she added on to what I saw. She said when she stepped out of the airport the first thing she saw was a billboard of Obama and how much the South Africans she spoke with supported Obama.
I don’t pay attention to polls, pundits etc. I pay attention to the streets(no rapper adlib LOL) from what I’ve seen, who I’ve talked to, people are behind Obama. If I can take an 8 hour flight and travel 6 hours ahead of the Eastern standard time zone and have serious conversations with people from another country about an American Presidential candidate with whom they support…I mean come on. I’m gonna be real, That shit matters! Like Public Enemy said ‘Don’t believe the hype’. Last night during the debate John McCain went after Barack Obama for his statement accepting to meet with the leader of Iran. I say why not! Sen. McCain stressed the nuance of ‘meeting without preconditions’
Reverting back to my trip, people love the U.S.!! As an American I’m tired of our country dictating to other countries and so are many other Americans. Let’s talk to people, how about a pre-emptive talk as opposed to pre-emptive wars i.e. The current Iraq war. We have the right to protect ourselves and shout out the U.S. military especially those in Germany! But damn, I never thought Saddam Hussein was a threat. I shook my head when they tried to make the ‘Iraq, 911 connection’ but that’s so far outside the mainstream thought right? Maybe my voice doesn’t count because when I went to Germany I’ve never felt more American in my life and I received more love from Africans and Afro-Germans than the love I receive here. There is a lot we can learn from other countries but I loved Paris and didn’t feel the french were smug, that’s just my personal opinion.
Make sure you travel and leave the United States of America, if you don’t understand this country you will when you come back.
Amandla Awethu(if you don’t know what it means, look it up)
Peace
