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Johnny ILL~PADRINO

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About Me



WUTZ GOOD, FAM? I'm a 32yo Irish/Italian paisan, Hip-Hop head and political junkie with no luv 4 the consumption-based, shallow, individualistic middle-class lifestyle. Just moved back to Chitown in Feb. Grew up in the Washington DC area; lived in Northern VA and uptown DC. Graduated from Howard U in 2003. Also lived in Chitown (South Side, Hyde Park) in '04/'05 for grad school. If I felt like I had the time and money I'd go back for a Ph.D. or J.D. but I didn't start undergrad full-time 'till I was 25yo and I'm already buried in school loan debt. También viví en EL BOOGIE DOWN . I stayed in Riverdale / Kingsbridge off 238 and then had a crib in Highbridge off 167 & 4 train. I'm feelin' the BX. Back in Chicago for a year or so, then I wanna move back to NYC--unless I find a permanent job somewhere else first. I might be interested in tryin' out southern Cali for a while but it depends on where my job search leads me. Still thinkin' 'bout teaching or workin' in politics or journalism. As long as I find a job that makes a difference for underrepresented peeps (not greedy corporations) and have enough paper to pay the rent then it's all good--I don't need all that material BS. Matthew 19:24 Wutz minez=yourz.

FAVORITE QUOTES

"I am what time, circumstance, history have made of me, certainly, but I am also much more than that. So are we all."


James A. Baldwin

"You busy screamin 'gangsta gangsta'--all that talk is trife/You already lost the fight if you don't know the cost of life."


Talib Kweli

"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other."


Emma Goldman

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Todos somos inmigrantes

PLACES I'VE BEEN...

Puerto Rico Italy Jamaica Belize Mexico

PLACES I STILL WANNA GO TO...

Dominican Republic Brazil Cuba Venezuela

My Interests


Weight lifting, treadmill, social justice, undocumented migrant amnesty , global reparations, death penalty abolition, anti-gentrification/PRO- INTEGRATION, post-colonialism, trans-racialism (ONE LOVE), anti-nationalism / xenophobia, real Hip-Hop, Reggaeton, Merengue, Bachata, jazz, house, playing spades (for fun--I don't gamble), traveling, multicultural immersion, tree blazin, aprendiendo Espanol, writing.

I'VE POSTED MY Master's thesis online 4 PEEPS INTERESTED IN OR STUDYING BRAZILIAN CULTURE, IDENTITY POLITICS, CRITICAL RACE THEORY, CLASS CONFLICT AND NATIONALISM. My paper applies neo-marxist, constructivist and post-modernist theories to the study of nationalism in Brazil.

I'd like to meet:


I'm lookin for friendship with coo peeps. Grimy, cocky, bougie, narrow-minded or stuck-up peeps can get my Timberland up their culos :)- Holla...One.

Music:

Big Pun , Talib Kweli , Lupe Fiasco, Nas , Mos Def , Fat Joe , Don Omar, The Roots, Big L, Cee-Lo, De La Soul, Daddy Yankee, Lennox Toma, Tego Calderón, Outkast , Mary J. Blige, MC Serch , Black Moon, Smiff-n-Wesson (Cocoa Brothas), Wu Tang (Ghostface Killah, Cappadonna, Raekwon , Method Man, Rza, Gza), Paul Wall, Papoose, Sean Paul, Pharoahe Monch, Busta Rhymes, Kirk Franklin, Notorious B.I.G., Freeway, Fabolous , AZ, Slum Village, Styles P, Beanie Sigel, Bubba Sparxxx , Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, Aaliyah, Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Group Home, Redman, Beatnuts, Da Bush Babees, KRS-1, A Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets, Gang Starr, Pink Floyd, Prince, Beethoven, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis

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Movies:

Batman Begins, Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, Freedom Writers, Children of Men, Dr. Strangelove, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Reds, Carrie, all Spike Lee Joints (esp. Clockers, Bamboozled, and Jungle Fever), Taxi Driver, The Manchurian Candidate (original version), City of God (Cidade de Deus), Scarface, Gangs of New York, Hustle and Flow, A Clockwork Orange, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 007, all Star Trek

Television:


Battlestar Galactica , 30 Rock, Lost, The Daily Show, The Cobert Report, South Park, Mind of Mencia, Saturday Night Live, Tom Goes to the Mayor, 24
Talib Kweli-More Or Less

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Brand New - Tego Calderon Ft. Nejo - No Quiere Novio (Remix)
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I Got Cha Opin - Black Moon

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Fat Joe---Shit Iz Real

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J Dilla - Won't Do

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Books:


Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary SuicideGeorge Orwell, 1984
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book
The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley
Richard Wright, Native Son
Mark Naison, Communists in Harlem During the Depression Jon Lee Anderson, Che: A Revolutionary Life
João José Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil Willaim Upski Wimsatt, No More Prisons Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind Ernesto Cardenal, El Evangelio de Solentiname (The Gospel of Solentiname) Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy Michael Lerner, The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right

Heroes:

Osawatomie (John) Brown

Antonio Gramsci

Che Guevara, The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (the original), Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, P.O.C.C., The Yippies, Gandhi, César Chávez, my moms


Mo' Fam

My Blog

Divided Supreme Court rejects school integration

The Court has effectively overturned the landmark Brown v. Board of Education II decision by undermining its mandates to compel school diversity.This decision rejects the use of racial criteria i...
Posted by Johnny ILL~PADRINO on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:02:00 PST

Thoughts on anti-"appeasement" fallacies, nationalism, and other enemies of the People

I think that one of the greatest obstacles to a resolution to the conflicts in Southwest Asia (the "Middle East") is a rigid ideological committment among the Western right-wing to anti-"appeasement"....
Posted by Johnny ILL~PADRINO on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:17:00 PST

My "World View" quiz results

You scored as Existentialist, Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative...
Posted by Johnny ILL~PADRINO on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:31:00 PST

Prisons=Concentration Camps

[I wrote this paper in grad school; sorry if it's kinda pretentious...]   Brothers and sisters on lock, I call upon you to recognize&yourselves not as criminals, not as society's castaways but as...
Posted by Johnny ILL~PADRINO on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:17:00 PST

REGISTER TO VOTE

People, if you're not registered to vote you can do so @ this link: https://electionimpact.votenet.com/declareyourself/voterreg/ index.cfm The main reason Republicans ever win national and (most) ...
Posted by Johnny ILL~PADRINO on Tue, 08 May 2007 11:21:00 PST

Repeal the 2nd Amendment--VA Tech

Whenever gun violence hits the middle-class and leads to mass media exposure, such as it has in the recent tragedy @ VA Tech, it should present an opportunity to mobilize people against the status quo...
Posted by Johnny ILL~PADRINO on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:13:00 PST

Selling-out 2 work for the Man in Manhattan vs. a low-pay social service job 2 help the People

yo, I need a job.  I've been unemployed for weeks, before which I was going from one wack-ass paralegal temp assignment to another.  They pay O.K. for what the work is (mainly simple data en...
Posted by Johnny ILL~PADRINO on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:12:00 PST