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I'm Jelani, also known as G*Natural, formerly known as The Chocolate Jell-O Man (I was in high school, whaddya expect). Holder of many many titles, past and present. Emcee. Producer. Musician. Worshiper. Blogger. Columnist. Baritone. Scholar. Dorito Aficianado. I'm a jumble of contradictions, a welcome respite from the ridiculous stereotypes that abound... I'm a Black man (yes, I prefer the term 'Black' since my ancestry is West Indian and not directly African) who, when most people were learning Spanish or French in high school, took Japanese. (Occasionally, I remember some of it.) I'm highly competitive and cerebral, yet only recently have a begun to foray into chess. I love to talk, but I can't stand small-talk. I love my hometown of Portland, but hate many of it's core qualities -- specifically, its abundance of gray skies, snarky liberal bumper stickers, and glaring absence of Black people. My biggest political hero is Barack Obama (yes, please, nitpick his faults... I'll still take him over the field) but I had yet to actually register to vote in the state of Oregon until today.I'm just full of contradictions.Speaking of which, I'm also a Christian emcee:
