contributors

first of all, how the f*ck did kamstar get to be the first listed for CONTRIBUTORS?!

f12: i guess we were picking up on the same vibe...we blogged about the same thing! the best thing i heard concerning Ahmadinejad came from an Iranian, i won't try to paraphrase: What has the world come to that, with innocent people dying in Iraq every day, the rights of the homosexuals have become the most important issue of the day?
and don't even try and play me out like i am not for the rights of all human beings...but anyway, please follow that link to get hooked into a whole listing of iranian bloggers, their thoughts, their links (well, i guess that would be if you are into being informed and thangs). but maybe you just like listening to fiddy (kams) and getting your swerve on...

lotte: okay, your boy can be down, you got my vote. me and su opened the blog and were waiting for his pic to load, when it finally did - su was like...uh...okay?
for the record: any brother in paris bustin' a pink sequence beret is down with my crew.

on a more serious note. been thinking about our return to the states. i am so not looking forward to the states stupid stupid ignorant race stuff. the sad reality is that we are all one race (the human race, duh). in sweeden you look like a super racist talking about "different races"... they have embraced (intellectually, anyway) the concept that we are all one. with the tensions between women and men, black and whites i don't think anyone has a clue how to heal.
believe, it is just as hectic here (that is to say brazil - pay attention). it is different, with blackness being a class, there does not exist (except in two or three isolated instances) affluent blacks or black univeristies. blacks are totally locked out economically from participating in the system. everyone want to be white, cuz to be black is to be poor (read: worthless) they got that good ole fashioned racism here: where every peice of you is inspected, your skin, your hair, your way to speak. and war here is that of poverty... not the pseudo penal shit we practice in the states. where we lock up all the brothers and then pretend racism doesn't exist anymore. turn around and criminalize being black, ask the question why blacks steal and stupid stuff like that. how easy is it to point the finger and say how messed up it is in other places in the world, when in the states we are offered a great opportunity: it is something really noteworthy about america. why is it my people still feel locked out? is it just that mental slavery? cuz, here (south america people, pay attention) the hustle is on. folks is sellin a bit of everything to survive, and when i come home - i do not see that same drive and self determination.
don't even try to blame hiphop, you won't understand unless you LISTEN to tupac. lookin good and being gangsta goes way back into blues and even to jazz era (think detroit red) and we got to be real with how much slavery has damaged the black family. brazil got the same fall out. men who can't be responsible and respect women (and vice versa) and children left to raise themselves...it is a mess. a painful, complicated, mess.

speakin of mess...somebody is rollin up their sleeves and gettin busy two shout outs to brad pitt (who we all know, like alot of white boys, dream of raisin some black babies..)
and yes i did shout out a white boy. can you deal with contradiction? aren't white people involved in healing racism? and men involved in healing sexism? let's really talk about it. and on that note, i sign off...