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rabeka che nyAshia

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

---gil scott-heron---..................................... racial JUSTICE is my passion. MUSIC is my life. LOVE is my religion. everything is political. i'm try to be veryy honest, and i hate games.i was raised in a upper-middle-class white family to be a 'lady.' :) and not to talk about religion, sex, politics, or race...especially at the dinner table. but it turns out that the philosophies of these things are all i ever really care to talk/know about. if living inside this exploitive, oppressive white capitalist system is inevitable, i will spend my days working to increase Black business ownership, Black homeownership, stock ownership, asset development, progressive taxation, and Black agency/autonomy over our children's education. it's about race first, class second. if i may sound pretentious/arrogant for a moment (ha), i want to also attempt to teach other white people about the importance of Black leadership, etc...and how we can start to acknowledge and understand the extent of our own white privilege. and i will educate people about these issues with music. i'm involved in street-team marketing/promotion/booking, and i've done a little tour manager work. i seek hot, revolutionary, resistance music rooted in soul/hip-hop/spoken word/funk/jazz/blues/reggae/Jah music. get at me if you think you make music that might fit in well there. i live in boston. i taught highschool last year. now i work as the office manager and special events planner at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston (www.thedise.com). i miss home, i hate cold, but our need to tell the children the truth keeps me going. i love to hug people and i love to laugh.p.s. my wall is for people who know me. if you want your comment to be seen, include my name and/or some personal reference to me when you post. ty! --------------------------------------- i will always BE...unapologetically ME. and i don't like wearing shoes.

My Interests

you. and children's books.

I'd like to meet:

beautiful, powerful people (AKA people with a healthy self-confidence)real shit....quest taps out the rhythm of life...

Music:

BLITZ THE AMBASSADOR (soul-rebel double-consciousness...get it...you NEED it), Eliza B! (Words Spoken...For all those in the struggle to BE), a-alikes, akrobatik, afroDZak, al green, alphalove, amy winehouse, aNjULi sTarS, anthony hamilton, azizi the poet, baaba maal, beatles, beck, bela fleck, ben folds, BEN HARPER, bilal, bjork, black notes, black star, black water gospel, blackalicious, black thought, blind boys of alabama, blues traveler, bob marley, bojah & the insurrection, boogie down productions, brian jackson, bubba sparxxx, built to spill, carter beauford, cat stevens, charlie hunter, cody chestnutt, coldplay, common, counting crows, curtis mayfield, damien rice, danger mouse, danielle scott, david banner, david gray, david wade, de la soul, dead prez, del the funky homosapian, dialated peoples, dispatch, dj shadow, donnie, earth wind & fire, eclectic collective, eliza be, eminem, erykah badu, esoteric, exposition, fiona apple, fishbone, flaming lips, floetry, foundation movement, fugees, funk brothers, g. love and special sauce, gabe dixon band, gift of gab, GIL SCOTT-HERON, grandmaster flash, gza, howie day, hungry mob, immortal technique, incubus, insight, j4da, jack johnson, jaguar wright, james taylor, jay-z, jean grae, jedi mind tricks, jeff buckley, jeff lockhart, jill scott, jimi hendrix, john butler trio, john coltrane, joi, joni mitchell, jt & the dirty truth, jurassic 5, jus allah, k-os, k.salaam, kanye west, kastro, katt and the roots revolution, keller williams, kool keith, ladysmith black mambazo, last poets, lauryn hill, lee wilson, letia larok, leon mobley, lightheaded, louis armstrong, lupe fiasco, lyrics born, m.i.a., madlib, marQue, martin luther, martin sexton, marvin gaye, mason jennings, matt morrow, matt nathanson, maxwell edison, maya azucena, medeski martin and wood, meshell ndegeocello, m.f. doom, michael franti, michael warren, miles davis, missy elliot, mister lif, mofro, mos def, moses mayfield, murat v jose, n.e.r.d., nas, nick drake, nickel creek, nina simone, norah jones, north mississippi all-stars, ohmega watts, omekongo, one be lo, one drop, othello, outkast, ozomatli, paris, perpetual groove, pharcyde, phish, pidgeon john, project move, public enemy, ?uestlove, quivah, radiohead, ray frazier, ray lamontagne, reaux jam beau, reflection eternal, rhymefest, rilo kiley, rjd2, robert randolph, roots manuva, rusted root, ryan adams, sage francis, sam cooke, satchmo, saul williams, scratch, sean dwyer, sebastian, sigur ros, slackers, sleepy brown, smokey robinson, sonny bonoho, soul coughing, soulfège, soul movement, soul plasma, sound tribe sector 9, stewart mayfield project, string cheese incident, sublime, suckapunch, system of a down, talib kweli, tenacious d, the coup, the mars volta, the procussions, the roots, thelonius monk, tim reynolds, toots & the maytals, tortoise, toussaint the liberator, tracy chapman, tupac shakur, victor wooten, wailers, weezer, wilco, wyclef jean, zap mama, zion i...more

Movies:

25th hour, almost famous, american beauty, american history x, amelie, bamboozled, best in show, bowling for columbine, clockers, crooklyn, dead poets society, do the right thing, dogma, drop squad, empire records, fight club, get on the bus, girl 6, girl interrupted, he got game, high fidelity, jackie brown, jungle fever, life is beautiful, love and basketball, lumiere & company, malcolm x, mo' better blues, nightmare before christmas, office space, requiem for a dream, roots, royal tenenbaums, run lola run, school daze, she hate me, she's gotta have it, shreck, summer of sam, the best man, trainspotting, waking life, y tu mama tambien...more

Television:

f*ck the idiot box

Books:

(JUST A FEW): autobiography of malcolm x - haley, Black boy - wright, fight the power: rap, race, and reality - yusuf jah, malcolm x speaks: selected speeches and statements, now and then: the poems of gil scott-heron, race matters - west, salvation: Black people and love - bell hooks, the color of water: a Black man's tribute to his white mother - mcbride, the hip hop generation: young Blacks and the crisis in Black culture - kitwana, the racial contact - charles mills, the souls of Black folk - dubois, the vulture - scott heron, white privilege: essential readings on the other side of racism - rothenberg Black consciousness in south africa - biko...more

Heroes:

amilcar shabazz, bell hooks, bethany collins, bill clinton, cassie simon, che guevara, claire milligan, craig green cornwell, demetria shabazz, e.d. nixon, ella baker, emily bernard, evan milligan, frantz fanon, howard dean, howard zinn, ibrahim mubarak, jim hall, jimmy carter, karl marx, kwame nkrumah, langston hughes, malcolm x, marcus garvey, martin luther king, mckinley green cornwell, medea benjamin, michael moore, muhammad ali, mumia abu jamal, nelson mandela, nikki giovanni, noam chomsky, rhoda johnson, richard wright, ridwan nytagodian, rosa parks, sam bazawule, steve biko, and you

My Blog

155 YEARS AGO TODAY- "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn."

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To hi...
Posted by rabeka che nyAshia on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:26:00 PST

"Africa for the Africans - at home and abroad"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Dr. Marcus Mosiah Garvey Here are a 10 key statements from a the "Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World," a document that Dr.Garvey drafted in 1920 with the Univers...
Posted by rabeka che nyAshia on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:55:00 PST

in memory of El-Hajj Malik al-Shabazz

      had he not been murdered 40 years ago, in front of his pregnant wife and 3 babies, he would be blowing out 80 candles on his birthday cake today."Many will ask what Har...
Posted by rabeka che nyAshia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST