Lowo ungenaluthando akazanga amazi uThixo, ngokuba uThixo uluthando.
THE PEOPLE'S STATE OF EMERGENCY really CAN'T wait.
*Lebanon Diary*
Photo essay with sounds of Lebanon
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director of the vid is - here Thank You 1st Lt. Ehren Watada here
Malcolm X on reparations:
"If you are the son of a man who had a wealthy estate and you inherit your father's estate, you have to pay off the debts that your father incurred before he died. The only reason that the present generation of white Americans are in a position of economic strength...is because their fathers worked our fathers for over 400 years with no pay...We were sold from plantation to plantation like you sell a horse, or a cow, or a chicken, or a bushel of wheat...All that money...is what gives the present generation of American whites the ability to walk around the earth with their chest out...like they have some kind of economic ingenuity.
Keaundri Chantrell McBride is dancin' with angels. She's a vibrant teen here in Tacoma who just up and DIED one day. No drugs. No fast cars - she just went to play some b-ball n' died. She's here to remind me embrace who & what we have
while we do. (I put this little sumpin' sumpin' together for her friends Click here -)
Just in case the Spirit wakes you in the middle of the night and tells you to rise, and come hit me with Paypal , here's my email to do it with:
[email protected]
I'd like to meet:
"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: LOVE YOUR ENEMIES AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO PERSECUTE YOU, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
row 1
"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of fundamental human rights. Everyone everywhere has the right to live with dignity, free from fear and oppression, free from hunger and thirst, and free to express themselves and associate at will."
I love God AND my banned atheist sister
Taslima Nasreen (her website )
'Freedom of expression for some is not enough.
We must work for freedom of expression for all.
Human rights for some is not enough.
We must work for the human rights for all.
Peace for some is not enough.
We must work for peace for all.
I, come what may, will not be silenced.
Come what may,
I will continue my fight for equality and justice
without any compromise until my death.
Come what may, I will never be silenced.'
SELF-PORTRAIT
I don’t believe in God,
I look upon nature with wondering eyes.
However much I move forward grasping the hand of progress
society’s hindrances take hold of my sleeve
and gradually pull me backwards.
I wish I could walk all through the city
in the middle of the night,
sitting down anywhere alone to cry.
I don’t believe in God.
From house to house the religion mongers
secretly divide us into castes,
segregate the women from the human race.
I too am divided,
defrauded of my human rights.
The crafty politician
gets loud applause when he rails about class exploitation,
But he cleverly suppresses all the terminology
of women’s exploitation.
All those people of supposed good character, I know them.
Throughout the world, religion has extended its eighteen talons.
In my lone brandishing, how many of its bones can I shatter?
How much can I rip discrimination’s far-spreading net?
(MAH PEOPLE. PLEASE CONSIDER NOT JUDGING GOD BY WHAT GOVERNMENTS AND MEN DO WITH OPPRESSIVE "RELIGION" TO ACHIEVE -EVIL- ENDS. THAT IS NOT GOD. GOD'S LAW IS LOVE. EVIL DOESN'T WANT YOU TO FIND THAT. IT'S INSIDE. MANY TRUTHS MERGING.)
...let there be
no purpose in friendship
save
the deepening of spirit...
...what is your friend
that you should seek him
with hours to kill?
seek him always
with hours to live
for it is his
to fill your need
but not
your emptiness...
............................
from kahlil gibran's
'the prophet'
Music:
music as an expression of who we are and what we want to say, as an art or communication, as what binds us (really binds us together), or maybe most importantly as what stokes the soul to survive the hardest times. I asked a friend if we would even be here if music had not seen our people through the fires. i love most, if i had to admit it, joan armatrading, ladysmith black mambazo (and south african voices), rags from india, the jazz crusaders, sweet honey in the rock type acapella, the delicacy of The Modern Jazz Quartet, instrument solos, peruvian mountain sounds, appalacian expressions, gil scott heron & tupac, gospel, kwaito, tracy chapman, native music from anywhere!, laments of women shepharding when they sing and cannot be heard by their husbands, the artist formally known as cat stevens (yusef islam), india arie, when she sings of being real -- But in the CAR? The CAR? It's ALLLLL BASS BEATS OR REVOLURIONARY SPEECHES LIKE AH WANT THE WORLD TO HEAR AN' KNOW. AHM IMPRESSIN' CLARITY ON MAH CHILDREN. THEY CAN PICK IT UP OR LAY IT DOWN BUT THEY CAN'T SAY THEY NEVAH HEARD.
Joan Armatrading Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Yusef Islam (Formerly Cat Stevens) Vanessa Mae Tracy Chapman Gumboot Miners Gil Scott Heron Eryka Badu Donsi Ngoni Chem Mami Donald Byrd Buddy Miles Bo b M arl ey B abatunde Olatunji Angelique Kidjo Van Morrison Adama Yalomba Tupac Taj Mahal Sweet Honey In The Rock Sarafina (The Stage Production, Not The Movie) Ronnie Laws Out Of Eden Odetta Nelly Minnie Ripperton Miles Davis Th e La st Po ets Ladysmith Black Mambazo Kojo Antwi Keb Mo Jimi Hendrix Habib Koite Sukay Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Richard Bona R. Carlos Nakai Nina Simone Yusef Lateef South African Kwaito music Charles Mingus
Joan Armatrading - Willow
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music as an expression of who we are and what we want to say, as an art or communication, as what binds us (really binds us together), or maybe most importantly as what stokes the soul to survive the hardest times. I asked a friend if we would even be here if music had not seen our people through the fires. i love most, if i had to admit it, joan armatrading, ladysmith black mambazo (and south african voices), rags from india, the jazz crusaders, sweet honey in the rock type acapella, the delicacy of The Modern Jazz Quartet, instrument solos, peruvian mountain sounds, appalacian expressions, gil scott heron & tupac, gospel, kwaito, tracy chapman, native music from anywhere!, laments of women shepharding when they sing and cannot be heard by their husbands, the artist formally known as cat stevens (yusef islam), india arie, when she sings of being real.
The hands of Steve Biko's son, Nkosinati,
holding his daddy's wooden fist, 1997
"...One would expect the harmfulness and irrationality of patriotism to be evident to everybody... The peoples... not only sympathize with Governments and their attacks on other nations, in their seizures of foreign possessions, and in defending by force what they have already stolen, but even themselves demand such attacks, seizures and defences: are glad of them, and take pride in them..."
(Patriotism and Government, by Leo Tolstoy)
the degradation and removal
of the/a black male
the
implicit
association
"race"
test
(check yo
attitude)
There is a place
where rainbows
touch the grass
and butterflies hold
their celebrations;
where love is only innocent
and the forest bends to pray.
I will go there -
where eyes are heart transparencies
and God's name intoned
is sacred;
where thankfulness
is the common way,
and a person's past is
meaningless.
I will rest there
without a sound,
pressing tight
into the light
until the difference
between the light and I
can no longer be
found.
And I will know there,
until I cannot
do more
than
smile.
Television:
THIS WAS THE OCTOBER 2006 NEWSWEEK, AMERICA!!!! (Circle the one that is different)
Sorious Samura
“Who Represents The Innocents?â€
..."Who represents the innocents?... Who is telling their story? I want to represent them"...
Re-presenting Africa: an interview with Sorious Samura
...openDemocracy: "But you declined a job offer with both CNN and the BBC. Why was that?" Sorious Samura: "Well, their convention is the three-minute report from the region, and that is something I have always condemned. Africa is such a big continent and these short reports are just inadequate for giving the background and context of a story. I insisted that I want to continue with Insight News TV ...."
Sorious Samura's Africa
"...It is my belief that unless we Africans can tell our own story within content and show an Africa that has not been seen before the West will continue to throw their hands up in despair believing that our continent is full of a bunch of confused savages... The only way the West can understand and treat us seriously is to hear the African story first hand from the African perspective rather than the usual white version..."
The Calling Programme: Sorious Samura
...When the film created a stir at the United Nations headquarters in New York, London's Daily Express described him as "The Man Who Saved a Nation". Within four weeks of the film's transmission, plans were underway for the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone...
INSIGHT NEWS TV ON MYSPACE:
http://www.myspace.com/insightnewstv
Books:
I just spent an hour (OF MAH LIFE) trying to list the books I've loved and hovered in. I can't. I will leave someone out. I'm old. I will leave out a teaching. A book will imply what isn't - what I get from the books is not always what the title of the books would indicate. I-mystic. Above everything else.
unless there is a promised teaching using the pretense as a VEhicle to bypass people's biases and barriers. I love sacredness. I love the original design. I am so in love that I can't see anything else. I was lifted from a ring of fire.
I want to tell you about God in my life but only if you promise to not get hung up on the words.
The Essence. The Love. The "I am". The 99 Names of ALLAH. The Nameless One. Jehovah, Jah, Allah, El Shaddai. What Is.
I dont' construct gods and religions to fit my beliefs. I don't reject truths that insist I change. Just truth. Truth simple enough for a child. I go out to find God, I fall down to find God, I twirl to spin into God, I breathe to be absorbed by God, run to meet God, learn from God, and no matter how uncomfortable the TRUTH, I would NEVAH try to alter that truth to comply with my mental constructs, or what's mainstream.
George Fox, the soul that folks created the Quakers from (he would shudder) went wandering from one teacher to another trying to get his questions answered. He ended up alone in the woods, no one left to ask, dissheveled and scary looking I'm sure (as did Leo Tolstoy during his conversion) until he heard a voice: "None can speak to thy condition but Me."
That's the One.
I close my eyes
and fall on my face
and speak only as long as it takes to ENTER...
then I am still. I wait.
It comes.
My prayer is not for things. I would say I'm poor, but in relation to the rest of the world, how can I?
My PRAYER is to be found worthy enough and empty enough to be used. That's it. Just to be part of this.
MAMA T SAID:
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you live as you wish" "Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor" "I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself." "By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibilty at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion." "Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion" Words of Mother Teresa
I will not vote for a law to endanger women, but I WILL cry over our hardening hearts.
Heroes:
The Undefinable Immeasurable Uncontainable Shoreless Omni-This & Omni-That
