the egalitarian rootsnattyroots

About Me

Whatever joy is in this world All comes from desiring others to be happy, Whatever suffering is in this world All comes from desiring myself to be happy. HH Dalai LamaIf there is a lower class I am in it If there is a criminal element I am of it While there is soul in prison I am not free. -Eugene Victor Debs

My Interests

Friends,practice,hiking,camping,rock climbing,tattoos,dreadlocks, compassion, honest introspective evaluation, trying to realize one pure and true thing?

I'd like to meet:

smells like herb sounds like reggae ,Sade ,Keyshia Cole

Music:

metal , funk ,Rasta, punk, soul , Folk, lately Marley,Dylan,Dead Prez, Ghostface:Fish Scale,old Scratch Perry,X, Gorilla Biscuits,the smiths,ska,rocksteady,roots and bloodclot culture,lovers rock ,dancehall,new roots. willie hutch,Al green

Movies:

Rockers,Countryman, The Battle for Algiers, The Weather Underground, Tibet(Cry of the Snow Lion),Aaoron Russo's America:Freedom to Fascism,Jesus Camp

Television:

Ali G,Curb your Enthusiasm,Meet the Press, Face The Nation, Real Time with Bill Maher,Frontline,America's Funniest Home Videos, Bill Moyers Journal,106 and Park,Simon Scharma's Power of Art

Books:

Being Peace, The Tibetan book of Living and Dying, Hagakure, Born in Tibet, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Future of American Progressivism

My Blog

Seen from the eye of compassion

"What is called generosity is really compassion. Seen from the eye of compassion there is no one to be disliked.One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more.There is no limit to the breadth an dept...
Posted by the egalitarian rootsnattyroots on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 04:08:00 PST

Dem Nah Know So Charles Let Dem Know!

"I closed my eyes and listened to the waves.Thousands of fish out there, eating each other.Endless mouths and ass holes swallowing and shitting. The whole earth was nothing but mouths and assholes swa...
Posted by the egalitarian rootsnattyroots on Sun, 21 Aug 2005 09:44:00 PST

Holla at ya boy T.M.!

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by non viloent methods most easily succumbs:activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of the modern life ...
Posted by the egalitarian rootsnattyroots on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 03:44:00 PST

Just one of those days...

"To hate injustice and stand on righteousness is a difficult thing. Furthermore, to think that righteousness is the best one can do and do one's utmost to be righteous will,on the contrary bring many ...
Posted by the egalitarian rootsnattyroots on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A thought about humility!

"Humility is the fruit of inner security and wise maturity: to be humble is to be so sure of ones self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to ones self and status: To ...
Posted by the egalitarian rootsnattyroots on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

my new favorite phrase!

My current favorite phrase is "Don't mention it." When someone says thank you for some reason I say this. My friend gave me a ride home one day and said it after I thanked him. It sounded so elegant a...
Posted by the egalitarian rootsnattyroots on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST