Long term positive social/political/economic change, family, friends, music, food...
I'd like to meet:
Still living: Bobby Seale, Elaine Brown, Antonio Negri, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Trent Lott, Al Gore, Bill Gates, Dame Dash, Immortal Technique, dead prez, Fred Hampton Jr., Olusegun Obasanjo, Osama Bin Laden, Marcos, Angela Davis, Katherine CleaverDeceased: Every Amutah and Okoro in my lineage, Jesus, Moses, Mohammad, Buddha, Imhotep, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Marcus Garvey, Fred Hampton, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Monroe Trotter, Fannie Lou Hamer, John Brown, Toussaint L'Overture, Sam Walton, Nat Turner, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Hannibal, Sani Abacha, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Pablo Escobar, Stanley Williams, Pedro Campos, Julius Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah, Chairman Mao, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jose "Cha Cha" Jiminez, Steve Biko...
Music:
The Coup, dead prez, Immortal Technique, Bob Marley, Norah Jones, Jill Schott, Erykah Badu, John Mayer, Carlos Santana, Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Floetry, India.Arie, Alicia Keys, Xscape, John Legend, Mozart, Damian Marley, Destra, Iwer George, Heather Headley, The Temptations, Vivian Green, Mary J. Blige, No Doubt, Green Day, Ozzy Osbourne, The Beatles, Saigon, Cee-Lo/Gnarls Barkley, Cody Chestnutt, Des'ree, Jagged Edge, 112, Fugees, K'naan, Weezer, Biggie...FELIS LEO!!!
Movies:
The Godfather 1 and 2, Belly, Bowling for Columbine, Blow, Traffic, Scarface, Bout It, Good Will Hunting, New Jersey Drive, The Spook Who Sat By The Door, Training Day, Coming to America, Half-Baked, Higher Learning, Rosewood, Friday, Gladiator, Better Luck Tomorrow, Rock IV, Malcolm X, A Huey P. Newton Story...
Elaine Brown: New Age Racism
The truth from Elaine Brown, former Chairwoman of the Black Panther Party.
Television:
This should tell you quite a bit: When I turn on the TV I usually turn to channels in this order BET, MTV, CNN, TV1, Link TV, and then the History Channel. Go figure.
Books:
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, A Man of the People, Revolutionary Suicide, Misery, The Big Test, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Frankenstein, and One L are a few of my favorites
Heroes:
Chiefly my mom, Malcolm X, Huey Newton, and Marcus Garvey.
