I am a hip hop poet, a child of the 80s and an event coordinator in NYC. Capicuuuu! best poetry and comedy open mic in NYC..punto!
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I also threw my hat into working toward intelligent Latino comedy, I'm the official assistant and new media guy for comedian Bill Santiago, check out our latest book and national tour project (sponsored by Myspace Latino) here:
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I dont remember the exact moment it happened, but there came this grand idea, an epiphany perhaps revealed in a series of dreams, expressing to me that we need to celebrate our peoples similarities and collective history since they are much more powerful than our socially constructed differences.
Some elements that added credibility to this idea were:
*The work of psychologist Carl Jung- who believed that the world had a collective unconscious, which accounts for the universality of many themes, stories and images around the world.
*The book Soul On Ice by Eldridge Cleaver- A marker of the 60s Civil Rights era which lays out the blue print of racist American society and its proponents in media and government. Strangely enough many of the themes written about 40 years ago still apply to day.
*The book Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevera- written when he was not yet an icon of revolution, but a common man who was just coming across the idea that borders were meaningless; the struggles of the people are one and the same.
The point is that i came to realize that as far advanced as we have been blessed to become, many of us are still trapped in racist, sexist, and otherly prejudiced grudges of the past.. many of these grudges having no palpable origin, except for the idea that this is the way things "should" be or "have always" been. We work to break these molds of an oppressive yesterday in order to allow growth for a progressive tomorrow.
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Okay, so youre hot shyt, right? You got your LiveStrong yellow band. As a matter of fact you got all the colored bands for different causes.. your arm looks like a box of Froot Loops.
You joined "The One Campaign" to ask the President to fight poverty at World Summit, and you were aware enough to check the "Not Spam" block on your junk folder filter. You watched ALL the Michael Moore movies... TWICE!
Question...?
have you made sure that everyone in your family is okay-have you called that person that lives alone? Have you checked yourself out at the doctor for STDs and cancer? Have you made peace with that person you have stopped speaking to? Its great to explore about worldly forests, but dont forget to mind the delicate flowers in your own backyard.
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