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evan

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About Me

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My Interests

music-live performance, youth education, nature, travel, cooperative business ownership, entreprenurship, laughing, organizing, justicehttp://www.diseducation.com/

I'd like to meet:

my wife and kids...and then much later, in a much more secluded area, I would like to meet Louis Farrakan, George W Bush, Suge Knight, David Kenner, Osama Bin Laden, Donald Rumsfield, and Robert Mugabe and escort each of them personally to the International Criminal Court, where they would be indicted for numerous counts of conspiracy.

Music:

My Generation---Moses Mayfield, Matt Taylor, Blitz, Fallon, Henny, Wood, Burn One, Liza B, BEAT CAMP, Mac Kramer, Josh Vasa, Rhyme Pedigree, Will Bridges, John Mark McGaha, Myrtle Liz, Ju the Jerk, Lil' Mike, Big O, and RYP...and the powerful, classic songs from the different genres that have paved the way.

Movies:

Forrest Gump, X, Return of the Jedi, Willow, Coming to America, The Spook Who Set by The Door (just saw it for the first time Tuesday, June 06, 2007. Amazing)

Television:

Off...but back in the day... A Different World, Roc, Martin, Def Comedy Jam, Cosby, the NBA Finals (one of those end of the season basketball fans), Academy Awards, 60 Minutes

Books:

Autobiography of Malcolm X, Gospel of Matthew, Proverbs, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Chronicles of Narnia

Heroes:

My mom and dad, family, too many other people to name, lots of sheroes too. RIP Victoria Jackson Gray Adams ---here's a nice song for my sheroes and heroes...

My Blog

US Social Forum

The First Ever United States Social Forum is scheduled to take place in just two days. Some of it has started even now. It will be in Atlanta, Georgia. The website is www.ussf2007.org It will be a g...
Posted by evan on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:01:00 PST

Emancipation Park in Houston, TX- Proud of My Dad

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/heights/news/4900854. htmlHouston park pushed for Juneteenth siteBy DAVID ELLISONNothing at Emancipation Park highlights its storied history: That freed slaves pu...
Posted by evan on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:03:00 PST

Untouchable, Pt. III

"If it hadn't been for slavery, you wouldn't even be here...""You should be thankful for slavery..."Inside my mind I do the unthinkable. My blood pressure increases.My blood sugar increases. My pamper...
Posted by evan on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:54:00 PST

Untouchable, Pt. II

When rich folk get caught drinking, driving, cocaining, murdering, and stealing,they say that's an illness, or an explorer. When poor folks get caught drinking, driving,cocaining, murdering, and steal...
Posted by evan on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:05:00 PST

Untouchable, Pt. 1

There once was an Alabama SenatorWho was the asshole of the centuryHe mounted his horse and rode off to workFrom Jasper to MontgomeryDown Interstate 65 he trottedMany truckers honked and wavedHe was k...
Posted by evan on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:36:00 PST

26 inches on the road

Turning 26 feels like more of a milestone than turning 25. 26 is officially the otherside of 25. Living back at home, I might feel like I were in a misty, twilight-like place, somewhere be...
Posted by evan on Sat, 05 May 2007 12:28:00 PST

Hip-Hop in Alabama Pt 2

If there is a such thing as TOO real, i think that could relate to alot of the situations my confronting my 35 sisters and brothers. There is an article in the current issue of XXL that analyzes a su...
Posted by evan on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:44:00 PST

Hip-Hop In Alabama pt.1

Alot of my friends are in to music.For whatever reasons. Some its love....well, hold up, when i say the word friends, let me use it in the real way like the true meaning of the word. The people i real...
Posted by evan on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:50:00 PST

Love

I have been away this week attending a conference for worker-owned cooperatives. I love this to the core of me. I know it in the way that I feel when I get into a conversation about it and hear about ...
Posted by evan on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:25:00 PST