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MY BIRTH (The Sunrise):
*I was born on August 24th 1980 at about 10am in Nairobi, Kenya.. East Africa
*I am the son of a retired lawyer and a retired college professor, grandson of an African freedom-fighter of the Mau Mau uprising which drove the British out of Kenya, the great-grandson of an African witchdoctor
*My birth was a mixture of chaos & celebration
-nearly a hundred people gathered at my parents house to support my mother after my father who was then a lawyer for the OAU/ U.N kidnapped my 3 older brothers and abandoned my pregnant mother
-among the people in attendance were community leaders, government officials, village folk and a Nobel Peace Prize winner who shared her bed with my pregnant mother for fear of our safety when my father would go into one of his drunken rages
*The memory of my birth is tucked somewhere in my subconscious, I only know of the events from pictures and what my mother has told me
MY DEATH (The Sunset):
*As inevitable as the change of the seasons, I hope I will be able to fully experience my death
-by this I mean that I hope that I won’t be stoned out of my mind or suddenly pass in a blaze of gunfire or flames like some of my friends have
*Why would I want to experience my death? This is a crucial part of our existence. Who is to say the act of passing on isn’t a beautiful experience?
-I am in no hurry to die, but when my time comes, I want to experience and be aware of the whole process
*I want my death to be a celebration like my birth was. I don’t want anyone crying.. smoke a blunt, down a fifth of Hennessy, get laid, help a homeless child, swim in the ocean.. whatever brings joy to your soul
*If I can be remembered for bringing laughter, ecstasy (not the drug lol) or changing minds in a positive way, I’ll be happy & so should anyone that I ever knew.. like Borat said “Great success!”
MY LIFE (The Day):
*Has been in the words of Talib Kweli, been a beautiful struggle from the start
-having been moved around from different family members to different countries, I found myself alone in NYC at the age of 15
-after being passed around amongst family members again from D.C to VA & almost ending up in a group home, I was adopted by a white family in Jersey
-from this experience I have learned that despite our differences, we are all very much alike.. black, white, brown, African, European, American.. we are all one
*I have been torn between a disdain for society’s downfalls – racism, materialism, hypocrisy and a desire to outdo my father’s achievements which I now see are only material
*I do not measure my success in life anymore by my material achievements – my credit, my education, rims on a car or clothes in my wardrobe
-I measure my success by the legacy I leave behind for the generations to come. If I can make a positive change for the future, then I have succeeded
*I honestly do not know what I want to do as far as a career, my endeavors at school have fallen short so far because the only driving force behind what I was studying from Lasers/Photonics to Civil Engineering was purely monetary. My heart was never in it & I realize that until I find what drives me, such pursuits shall be pointless
-I know I have a scientific/ analytical mind that can do a lot of good for society I just need to point it in the right direction
THE AFTERLIFE (The Night):
*Not much to say because I don’t know what it will be like.. I feel it is similar to the night because it is the transition to whatever awaits us after this life.. the new day
THINGS I DESPISE:
*Racism, Ignorance, Closed minded people, Cruelty to animals
*People (usually white) who tell me I’m “not black” because I speak plain English & not slang or I’m not “ghetto” whatever that means.. come to Africa, I’ll show you ghetto. Nonetheless, this is an insult to black people
*White girls who approach me with the line: “I don’t date white guys, I only mess with black guys..” like its some kind of compliment..
– please keep your self-hatred to yourself & stay away from me.. if you cant love and respect your own kind, you cant love and respect yourself and neither can I
THINGS I LOVE:
*Humor, Love, Compassion, Empathy, Honesty, Muscle cars, Animals, Home-cooked food, children's laughter, the scent of a woman, good buds.. I could go on forever.. I love a lot of things lol
MY FRUSTRATIONS:
*Racism
*Society’s hunger for violence
MY WEAKNESSES:
*a weird mix of striving for perfection & not giving a f@ck lol
*Sleep – I can sleep all day & all night! Probably because this is the only time my mind & body is at complete peace
*My temper – I am passionate about everything I do & unfortunately my passion sometimes manifests itself as anger/ rage
MY FEARS:
*That I will lose more of my friends to their drug dependencies
*That as I gain material wealth, I will lose track of my true self
*That I will disappoint the little kid who dreamed of making a positive change in the world
MY ADVICE:
*Stop glamorizing D-boys, violence & disrespect to women
-hip hop started as something to help the underprivileged make their way out of the gutter, but it’s changing into a monster that is strangling the growth of future generations
-a black man who dedicates his energy to getting an education & raising his family is referred to as “square” and gets less respect than a black man who sells poison to his own people & has no positive contribution to society – seriously.. what the f@ck is wrong with the world??
*Love each other, we are all one
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