Asalam aleykum, my brothers and sisters.
February 21st passed without anyone saying a single thing in memory of, more famously known as Malcolm X. He was one of the greatest people to ever walk the planet. Some people say he was too radical, I say MLK was a dreamer with no real connection to reality. “While King was having a dream, the rest of us Negroes are having a nightmare."
Malcolm X rose from extreme ideas of a black revolution to being accommodative of other cultures and races. In other words, he went to hell and came back a changed man.
In contrast to his earlier views, he encouraged blacks to vote, to participate in the political system, and to work with each other and with sympathetic whites and Hispanics for an end to racial discrimination. As he told a group of African leaders, the problem of race was "not a Negro problem, nor an American problem. This is a world problem, a problem of humanity."
So I personally think that he isn’t given the much deserved honour in history. And so I dedicate this blog to him.
“Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American.”
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
Militant out.
Friday, May 23, 2008
WHAT'S WHAT?
Asalam aleykum my brothers and sisters.
I was watching this movie that just came out, with Katt Williams, Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan just to mention a few. Basically, Ice Cube has to try and stop his son from moving to another state with his baby mother since, apparently, ex-convicts can’t travel out of the state or something like that.
Anyway, it got me thinking. When do you say someone’s crossed the line? A man who robs a store to feed his starving family, and a man who robs the same store to enrich himself, in the eyes of the law, is there a right or a wrong?
A few years back, there was an article in the paper, where an elderly man was convicted for robbery with violence, for stealing his neighbours chicken. So you know, in Kenya such a sentence earns you the death penalty. Despite there not being any official killings since the 1982 coup.
Personally, I don’t think the judge morally should have passed that judgment. I believe he should have been judged based on intention and not act alone. We can’t view the world in black and white; there are a lot of grey areas.
Would you blame me for crawling into your house and stealing your money, if I had family to feed? What’s if I did it to enrich myself? Think about it…
Militant out.
I was watching this movie that just came out, with Katt Williams, Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan just to mention a few. Basically, Ice Cube has to try and stop his son from moving to another state with his baby mother since, apparently, ex-convicts can’t travel out of the state or something like that.
Anyway, it got me thinking. When do you say someone’s crossed the line? A man who robs a store to feed his starving family, and a man who robs the same store to enrich himself, in the eyes of the law, is there a right or a wrong?
A few years back, there was an article in the paper, where an elderly man was convicted for robbery with violence, for stealing his neighbours chicken. So you know, in Kenya such a sentence earns you the death penalty. Despite there not being any official killings since the 1982 coup.
Personally, I don’t think the judge morally should have passed that judgment. I believe he should have been judged based on intention and not act alone. We can’t view the world in black and white; there are a lot of grey areas.
Would you blame me for crawling into your house and stealing your money, if I had family to feed? What’s if I did it to enrich myself? Think about it…
Militant out.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Word Up Fruits
Asalam aleykum my brothers & sisters.
I was watching the history channel last week, you know those little short stories they bring in between programs? Well, they had this snippet on a rifle, found in Kenya, a country off the East Coast of Africa. The rifle if i remember correctly was a Lee something, that's not the point, anyway, the ignorant 'historian' narrating the story says:
"This is a .... rifle, an exact replica of rifles used by the British troops
during the post WWII period. I was made by a terrorist group called the
Mau Mau..."
I went like, say what bitch? Who the hell are you calling a terrorist? A group of people kicking your colonising ass out of their country? Because if that's who you call a terrorist, then i think you should change the meaning of the word in the dictionary, to mean, 'innocent society that picks up arms to chase away stealing developed countries'. And you can quote me on that shit!
I'm sure these bitch ass fruits would also refer to the ANC in South Africa, the Vietkong and all other freedom fighters around the globe as terrorists! This some bullshit! Call a spade a spade.
Militant out.
I was watching the history channel last week, you know those little short stories they bring in between programs? Well, they had this snippet on a rifle, found in Kenya, a country off the East Coast of Africa. The rifle if i remember correctly was a Lee something, that's not the point, anyway, the ignorant 'historian' narrating the story says:
"This is a .... rifle, an exact replica of rifles used by the British troops
during the post WWII period. I was made by a terrorist group called the
Mau Mau..."
I went like, say what bitch? Who the hell are you calling a terrorist? A group of people kicking your colonising ass out of their country? Because if that's who you call a terrorist, then i think you should change the meaning of the word in the dictionary, to mean, 'innocent society that picks up arms to chase away stealing developed countries'. And you can quote me on that shit!
I'm sure these bitch ass fruits would also refer to the ANC in South Africa, the Vietkong and all other freedom fighters around the globe as terrorists! This some bullshit! Call a spade a spade.
Militant out.
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