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Why ain't this man out yet??!
Quote from: QuietTruth on May 07, 2007, 07:07:53 PMWhy ain't this man out yet??!Because he murdered a police officer named Daniel Faulkner. You didn't know that?
I remember that shout out that 2pac did on White Man's World - something to the effect of:Peace to my motherfuckin teachers: Mutulu Shakur, Geronimo Pratt, Mumia Abu Jamal, blah blah, and all the real OG's we out! What was the 4th name he says?
To think about the origins of hip hop in this culture and also about homelandsecurity is to see that there are at the very least two worlds in America. Oneof the well-to-do and the struggling. For if ever there was the absence ofhomeland security it is seen in the gritty roots of hip hop. For the musicarises from a generation that feels with some justice that they have beenbetrayed by those who came before them. That they are at best tolerated inschools, feared on the streets, and almost inevitably destined for the hellholes of prison. They grew up hungry, hated and unloved. And this is thepsychic fuel that seems to generate the anger that seems endemic in much of themusic and poetry. One senses very little hope above the personal goals ofwealth and the climb above the pit of poverty. In the broader society theopposite is true, for here more than any place on earth wealth is more widespread and so bountiful. What passes for the middle class in America could passfor the upper class in most of the rest of the world. They're very opulent andrelative wealth makes the insecure. And homeland security is a governmentalphrase that is as oxymoronic, as crazy as saying military intelligence, or theU.S Department of Justice. They're just words that have very littlerelationship to reality. And do you feel safer now? Do you think you willanytime soon? Do you think duck tape and Kleenex and color codes will make yousafer? From Death row this is Mumia Abu Jamal
Why ain't this man out yet??It's funny becuz when I always think about injustice I never think about it still goin' on. Damn. Oh and course, good looks for the site!
Quote from: QuietTruth on May 07, 2007, 07:07:53 PMWhy ain't this man out yet??It's funny becuz when I always think about injustice I never think about it still goin' on. Damn. Oh and course, good looks for the site!because he was actually guilty
I think that's the dude who is on Immortal Technique's Album "Revolutionary Vol.2". He's got a track on it. He doesn't rap, but talk, beat is good.QuoteTo think about the origins of hip hop in this culture and also about homelandsecurity is to see that there are at the very least two worlds in America. Oneof the well-to-do and the struggling. For if ever there was the absence ofhomeland security it is seen in the gritty roots of hip hop. For the musicarises from a generation that feels with some justice that they have beenbetrayed by those who came before them. That they are at best tolerated inschools, feared on the streets, and almost inevitably destined for the hellholes of prison. They grew up hungry, hated and unloved. And this is thepsychic fuel that seems to generate the anger that seems endemic in much of themusic and poetry. One senses very little hope above the personal goals ofwealth and the climb above the pit of poverty. In the broader society theopposite is true, for here more than any place on earth wealth is more widespread and so bountiful. What passes for the middle class in America could passfor the upper class in most of the rest of the world. They're very opulent andrelative wealth makes the insecure. And homeland security is a governmentalphrase that is as oxymoronic, as crazy as saying military intelligence, or theU.S Department of Justice. They're just words that have very littlerelationship to reality. And do you feel safer now? Do you think you willanytime soon? Do you think duck tape and Kleenex and color codes will make yousafer? From Death row this is Mumia Abu Jamal
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