I see you strapped up
ready to let your pistol loose
Jump out boys
In the black navi taking pictures
Life’s a marathon
young soldier, not a race.
What you need to do
is slow down your pace
and just listen
Ya missin the whole world
Settling for chump change
That shyt is Crumbs
And what’s even more strange
In the movie Mannequin, a 1987 romantic comedy, Kim Cattrall (of Sex and the City fame) stars as Emmy. She hides out in a pyramid from her mother because she wants her to marry someone against her will. Emmy prayed for the gods to rescue her so that she wouldn’t have to marry this random guy who’s a camel dung dealer. Her prayers were answered by the gods and she is sent traveling through time, where she winds up as a mannequin on a quest to find true love. When Emmy finds love – that’s when she is turned back into a HUMAN!
I’m sitting here wondering what were the writers thinking when they wrote that script? Did they ever envision a futuristic version reality that is the opposite of the movie? Because, when I look outside, I see Mannequin 2 and this ain’t no sequel but the roles are clearly reversed. Nowadays, we got humans acting as mannequins with NO emotion and no signs of a spirit, while their plastic body parts are dressed in the latest fashions.
Last night I was watching a Chris Rock stand-up special and in it, there’s a part where he says “I love black people. but I can’t stand N@%%$!”
It got me to thinking – I love hip-hop artists, but I can’t stand rappers. Rappers suck – they have a platform to express what’s happening here on the ground in our country and share it with the world, and I ain’t hearing nothing but party and bullshyt! I stay in the A and on the radio stations, I don’t hear any songs about real issues affecting our everyday lives. We’ve got Troy Davis (police brutality), #OccupyWallStreet, unemployment – I mean, damn, aren’t these rappers the same ones screaming “welcome to my hood”? WTF hood do they come from because the ones that I live and organize in are in a State of Emergency, but listening to these rappers everything is Strip Club Muzic, get as F&*^$# up as you possibly can and kill ni$$@Z after you do it.
Yesterday, I watched this video and I wanted to share it with my 99problems family!
In the video, Tavis Smiley stated that at #OccupyWallStreet, they have been arresting protesters left and right and not one banker has gone to jail to pay for their crimes. The response from Bill O’Reilly was that bankers haven’t broken the law; they didn’t violate any crimes. I leave you with excerpts from Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail:
Do you remember the scene in the matrix when Morphoeus gave Neo the red or blue pill and asked him to choose? Below you will find a letter that Troy Davis wrote shortly before he was executed. They are his final words, and a message to each and every one of us.
You have a choice: you can stop reading and pretend that Troy Davis never existed. That last night never happened. Or you can keep reading and never stop fighting for Justice.
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