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This reminds me of when Richard Pryor went to Africa and came back sayin he won't use the n-word anymore.

The U.S. government purposely keeps African-Americans at a distance from their brothers and sisters of the continent. One of the ways they can do that is by having African-Americans internalize facets of their own oppression to foster an indifferent attitude toward Afrikans. Through their strives for acceptance and middle class weath, some African-Americans have even deemed race a non-issue, stating that money is green so it doesn't matter. This assimilation is the first step towards discarding your roots. Once a people have forsaken their heritage, for what they view as the American dream, they operate in complete blindness. Blindness in that they no longer take into account the well-being of their own people because a Black bourgeoisie is created, with it's own interests.

So I blame the Americanization of us, no matter where we come from, than us solely.

Americanization: This merely the side-effect of living in a capitalistic society, driven by capital and governed by racism, among other hatreds, which brings with it new complexities and contradictions for the Americanized.

But it is incredible that the same thing which drives whites to conquor the world has now become the prime driving force for the Black American seeking equality. This is true on both sides of the economic spectrum, from the middle class to the common street hustler in Hip-Hop. It is interesting how so many have internalized this idea of money equating freedom, an ideal which originally lead another race to enslave Black people.

By that token, capitalism is used to drive a wedge between African-Americans and their continent of origin. By nature it is a system that makes it easy for you to trun your back on the less wealthy.

The best thing we can do is recongnize the presence of an antagonist, and do our best to rid our mind's of the attitudes they taught us.

Either way, there is much profit to be made off of all Blacks, from all Nations. I doubt that the "charity" of
G-8 nations doesn't serve more a minority of whites than the majority of Afrikans in the corresponding countries. In fact you should rid yourself of the notion that foreign aid is anything good.

NEWS-FLASH: Foriegn aid almost always comes in the either 1) Military leadership, guns, and deadly equipment, 2) Funding for beaurocratic special-interest projects that only further exploit the nation and it's resources, and 3) Diplomatic strategizing for wealthy nations to manipulate critical regions for polictal and military purposes. Not to mention that it destroys a nation's economy and leaves them utterly dependent rather than uplifted economically.

ON HIP-HOP:

We are at the movement's ugliest point, for it is a movement intercepted, filtered, and task-forced, void of any control of it's own destiny; raped. You can't expect everything about it to be interdependent and self-governing, not in the state it's in. What makes Hip-Hop revolutionary is that it is just a mirror for the larger society, and with this comes the oppurtunity to change the reflection. It's grounded in reality, while much of the art of the past wasn't; which damned it to the aesthetic playground, while Hip-Hop comes with it the capacity for actual social change.

It's values are strong, no matter what others may say, rooted in community, knowledge of self, and forever changing, making it universal. It's origins lie in this and not what you have come to see.

KNOW THAT, in no way does what you see and hear thru Big Brother constitute Hip-Hop in it's purest, radicalized form, and in no way does it represent US, the creators of this noble culture for and soley for the upliftment of the oppressed people.

AND YES we do have an agenda as a social movement, one which will materialize in clear view once the last remenants this blatant, violent censorship and exploitation are shaken off it's original foundation, finally making US the sole controllers of our own destiny.

Get your last look at the booty videos and perrilli tires, cause it's about to be some Black Queens and Latin Kings up in this.

And any movement flows in cycles. Hip-Hop has yet to revisit it's point of origin, know what that means?

::KNOWLEDGE IS COMING BACK AGAIN::

Peace and Live Godly,


XANDRE


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i realize this is supposed to be a thread about Africa. In my head, hurting the American community one comes from is very similar to hurting the African community one ultimately came from. The original post mentions blacks in Jamaica as being negatively portrayed- while Jamaicans, like black Americans, have a unique culture, at the end of the day each group is where they are (Jamaica and America) because they were forcibly taken there from Africa.


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we don't control hip-hop...
you would think at this point black people would control the entire music industry..

but sadly we are not..

have we gotten caught up in "Americanism"?
has the devil taught us to love money more than self?

the answer might scare you...