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Altering Popular Perception Since 1985

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CORNELL WEST FOR FUCKIN' PRESIDENT


September 28, 2007 | Tags: Cornell West

Peace!  CORNELL WEST FOR PRESIDENT is the official campaign.  Beyond Hip Hop (I keep Hip Hop is caps,) I'm a social junkie.  I actually dropped out of college for a year and joined a grassroot organization based out of L.A. and we traveled hit unheard places to inform people of this crooked government.


Still to this day, I spend more time with the people than with textbooks and t.v.  I believe that travel and interaction is the best way to learn about human nature and their perceptions/perspectives.  I make it my duty when I hit places like NYC, I hit up Harlem, Bedstuy, South side Jamaica and when I went to Cali, I made sure I hit Watts and when I went to New Orleans, I made sure I hit up the 3rd Ward (when I was in Costa Rica I even hit up Limon).  I think it's important to understand my people and their struggles.  I feel like that's my mission as a human being- to uplift and inspire the people. Shout out to Hip Hop's INTENT.


Anyway, I've always admired Cornell West because his literature forces you to learn (his vocabulary game is like a political Canibus, lol).  If you haven't read the 1993 published, "Race Matters" you should really consider copping that.  


I watched Hip Hop Vs. America (parts 1 and 2) on BET the other night.  After watching the show, it began to dawn on me that a lot of people, just don't get it.  Although Cornell wasn't there, BET kept re-opening the segments with these mini-interviews they had done with the Activist/Author/Professor.  Good thing they did, because he was one of the few who really got it.  He had an honest and balanced way to look at Hip Hop and America.  The majority of the panel was either too deep into defending Hip Hop or too deep into clouds, which led them into not wanting to listen, rather prove their positions.


The other night he made a good point that people are about, "greed, pleasure and power- money, stimulation and status." <


He also said that people have become "well adjusted to injustice."  It seems as if a lot of us don't even know when we are being walked over, when we're living in poverty, when we really don't have shit.  We have become so content with living in the slums that it's become normal or ok.  Bad business. 


He also said that we need to focus on seperating fantasy vs. reality.  Lauryn Hill also mentioned that on her MTV Unplugged album that, "Fantasy is what people wnat but reality is what they need.  And I'm retired from thefantasy part."  


THINK ABOUT IT.  I think these are issues that Black and Afro-Latino America need to address and we need a President who will address real issues and actually have a platform to execute the problems.  We need someone who will uplift humanity.


A.H.L.OT. A HIGHER LEVEL OF THINKING





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