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No Justice No Peace

I was starting to have the feeling that things where changing here in Amerikkka. I was starting to think that the American creed of Freedom, Justice, and Equality was starting to be applied to all races and was just not exclusively for the rich, high class, white people. I was starting to think with the rise of Barack Obama that maybe, just maybe we where starting to be treated equally in all facets of American society. I mean even though Barack Obama is of mixed race he is in every aspect looked upon as a black man.  When I saw people like Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and the likes of them embracing Obama I started to feel like, wow MLK's dream is being realized! A black man is not being judged by the color of his skin but by the content of his character.  

My fairy tale came to a screeching halt on Friday when the Sean Bell verdict came down.  I was reminded quickly and swiftly that a black man’s life has never had any value here in Amerikkka. Detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora, and Marc Cooper, the three New York City police officers accused of shooting 50 times and murdering Sean Bell, were found not guilty on all counts. Oliver fired 31 times and claims to not remember shooting the first time that's why he reloaded and started shooting again? How could Judge Arthur Cooperman not find that utterly insane? Is that not the epitome of incompetence? When I hear a man speak like that I have to question his mental state and have to wonder is he even psychologically fit to be a cop. Isnora, who fired 11 times, had been charged with manslaughter, felony assault, and reckless endangerment. Cooper, who fired four times, faced up to a year in jail if convicted of reckless endangerment.  They faced up to 25 years in prison if convicted on all charges, yet they where all found not guilty.   

Another black man murdered two others shot the fuck up and the old ass white judge Arthur Cooperman's reasoning was the demeanor of the witnesses made him question their character and the past police records of the victims played a role in his decision. Wow, so Malcolm X had a police record, he was a former felon; Martin Luther King Jr. had a police record also.  He had been to jail several times.  Does Judge Arthur Cooperman believe those great brother’s murders where justified because of their past records? Since Judge Arthur Cooperman wants to talk about character and demeanor I have to question the character of every NYPD police officer I run into now because of the murderous demeanor of these cops who got off, not to mention the murderous demeanor of the cops who killed Eleanor Bumpurs, Michael Stewart, and Amadou Diallo. The same way they can't tell a good black man from a black man who might actually be causing them a threat, I can't tell the difference between a good cop who might really being trying to protect and to serve and a bad cop who can't wait to use his brand new government issued pistol on me.  

Situations like this are why the hood says fuck the police.  This is why the stop snitching campaign is in effect because even when it's justified for me to cooperate and help, why should I cooperate and help a system that will never cooperate and help my black ass?  When Barack Obama speaks of people being bitter and having no faith in government this is why. Verdicts like this are the reason we cling to our respective religions, why we cling to our guns and why we have resentment towards a so called justice system that delivers us an injustice every chance they get. I must say Amerikka stayed true to tradition with that verdict. They reminded everyone that a black man's life has absolutely no value here in Amerikkka.  

Have you ever read 100 Years of Lynching by Ralph Ginzburg? Pick that up and read how a black man in Louisiana was lynched by an orderly mob on March 17th, 1908 because he was suspected of stealing a mule.  Read how on July 14th, 1914 in Mississippi a black man was hung because he was suspected of stealing cows.  Read how on December 5, 1914 in Spartanburg, SC they hung a black man because he was suspected of stealing a chicken. History continues to repeat itself.  In 2007 Michael Vick was sent to prison because he fought and killed dogs, and in 2008 three cops who kill a black man got off? Animal life has more value than a black man here in Amerikkka.   

It's a damn shame in 2006 Sean Bell was killed because he was suspected of having a gun, the same way a black man was killed because he was suspected of stealing a cow. Well, these public killings, lynching, if you will, still go on today because on November 25th 2006 Sean Bell was shot and the public hanging and burning of Sean Bell's body happened on April 27, 2008 when that abortion of justice was handed down as a verdict. How am I supposed to feel empowered as a young black man in Amerikkka? When situations like this happen a feeling of fear comes over the black community. If I'm educated they can still shoot me down if they want to, if I'm rich they can still shoot me down if they want to, if I'm a highly religious spiritual leader they can still shoot me down if they want to.  

This public lynching of Sean Bell rekindles the fear they want us to have for the system.  It's the same fear slave masters like Willie Lynch instilled in his slaves while he spoke on the banks of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712. He demanded those devils to instill fear in black people because it was a cardinal rule to make a Negro submissive. The Sean Bell verdict is the equivalent of taking the meanest and most restless negro, stripping him of his clothes in front of the other male negroes as well as the female and the kids, tying each leg to a horse faced in opposite directions, setting the brother on fire, and beating both horses to pull him apart in front of the remaining negroes. This puts the fear of this evil system into black people. Not only will they be submissive, but they won't get out of line.  

Well I'm telling you black people all I fear is Allah. I submit to no one but the creator. I'm telling you it's time to get out of line, No Justice, No Peace. All you leaders calling for peace, I understand you but it's against the laws of nature. It's against the laws of Karma.  What's about to happen is Cause and Effect. Good Deeds create good consequences, injustice creates war. You must destroy in order to build, that's a Universal Principal that existed before us and it's going to be here after we are gone. You gang bangers want to bang, well now is the time and that energy should not be directed at each other anymore. I can show you who the real enemy is. You brothers are going to have to start being the frontline of defense in the communities.  

It's not a black versus white thing either. I know white people who are just as pissed about this situation as we are.  Racism is a learned behavior. Whites where not born to hate blacks and blacks where not born to hate whites. The law of karma, the law of cause and effect, and the law of polarity have created these racist conditions. We must unlearn what we have learned and see each other in each other and fight together because the truth is, with all these black men falling in love with white women and having babies that look like Barack Obama, whose to say your child might not be getting murdered by this evil system in the future? As Martin Luther King Jr. said an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere and we will get justice in the words of Malcolm X, “By Any Means Necessary.”

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5 Ways to Make a Chingy CD Useful.....

I would like to thank Chingy for throwing a shot at me in the "Do it for my Haters" record featuring Ludacris and 4 Ize. To show my appreciation I made this video for him 5 Ways to Make a Chingy CD Useful (A Tribute to the C.O.A.T.)

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Expand Your Reality.....

Expand Your Reality - Expand your reality to the point where you pursue what you love doing and excel at it. Involve yourself in high-energy levels of trust, optimism, appreciation, reverence, joy, and love when you engage in every activity in your life.

-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer The Power of Intention

 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a DREAM that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal. A DREAM that his four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. He had a DREAM that one day the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. He hoped for a freedom that would allow blacks and whites to work together as well as pray together. He had a dream that one day we all would be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!  

Well, do you feel free? Do you feel as if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream has become a bonafied Reality? Well I'm here to tell you that YES IT HAS. Let's look at a few of the things Brother Martin wanted for his people. He wanted America to live by its creed that all men are created equal. You tell me brothers and sisters, what job in America can you not obtain? What position is there in America that a black person is not over qualified for?  

We live in a society where any race can dominate any field they choose to be involved in, don't believe me? Then why is the second richest man in the world a Mexican?  He is Telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helú with an estimated net worth of $60 billion. Why is the greatest golfer in the world a mixed race black by the name of Tiger Woods? Why has the biggest hip hop star of the past decade been a white male by the name of Eminem? Equality is alive and well in America. Any door that we as a people feel is closed to us is simply shut because we are too afraid of failure to open it. Some of those doors might even be locked, but we know where the keys are. We have access to those keys if we choose to use them. MLK said he wanted to see a nation where people will be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. I know a brother who is leading the Democratic Presidential Nomination in delegates, who is leading in the popular vote and a brother who is bringing together black and white people, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, Christians and Muslims. He brings together the young and old, rock and roll fans, Hip Hop heads, jazz enthusiasts, and country music lovers.  He does this not because of the color of his skin, but because of the content of his character and this individual is none other than Mr. Barack Obama.   

MLK said he wanted to see a time when the sons of slaves could sit down at a table of brotherhood with sons of former slave masters. Not only are we sitting down at a table of brotherhood, we are sitting down in corporate board rooms. We have the most influential woman in the world with a net worth of over 2.5 billion dollars. She came in and took over a field dominated by white males.  She just doesn't sit down at the table of brotherhood, she owns it and this phenomenal woman is none other than Sister Oprah Winfrey. No matter how you may feel about the Bush Administration, there have been two blacks who have sat down at the table of brotherhood with the president both holding the position of Secretary of State, Mr. Colin Powell and Mrs. Condoleeza Rice.

This ladies and gentleman is the Dream of freedom that Brother Martin talked about that has become a Reality. A Reality which allows Blacks and Whites to work together in some of the highest positions in the world! Dr. Martin Luther King's Dream has expanded into Dr. Martin Luther King's Reality.  I challenge black people to expand their individual realities, past the projects, the blocks, the slums, the gutters, the dirt roads, and the traps within the state you live in. I challenge you all to expand your Reality, to feel like we can have the first black president of the United States of America and to know Barack won't be the last.   

Expand your Reality to know that you can be one of the richest people in the world and not only be on the Forbes list, but be on top of it if you expand your Reality far enough. Instead of wanting to be rappers let's expand our Reality to be the owners of the distribution companies. That way we can balance the product that comes out.  Instead of always having music that reflects the problems and harsh realities of our society we can release and equally promote and market the music of more positive artists who come with solutions to the ills our children are facing on a daily basis.  

Instead of running to be a player let's expand our Reality to think about owning the team! Does it make since that 67% of players in the NFL are black but there are no black owners? Roughly 80 percent of the NBA is white but there is only one black majority owner of an NBA team, Mr. Bob Johnson. It's not that we can't it's just that we haven't expanded our realities past being players! Instead of buying the gas guzzling Hummer or Escalade expand your Reality to be the brain that designs a vehicle that runs off a cheaper more plentiful energy source.  Let's stop being the damn consumers and expand our realities to be the creators!  

I cannot for the life of me understand why we as a people have put ourselves in this box, why have we limited what we feel like we can do? I remember an older family member of mine in Moncks Corner, SC telling me when I was like 15 or 16 not to think so big because when you don't reach your goals you are going to be disappointed. Why would anyone try to instill that in a young man's brain? Why does an older person have such a limited vision on the reality of life? You don't teach kids to be but so much, you teach kids to be all that they can be. We have to shatter that glass ceiling that we've created for ourselves and expand our Reality. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a DREAM. That DREAM has become a reality. To not expand on that REALITY shows a major weakness in your character. And as a wise man once told me, the weaknesses of your character must be manifested before the strengths of your character can be perfected. Expand your Reality people; the future pursuit of perfection in our society depends on it.

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Ozone Mag Chin Check for May 08

 

Thou Must Not Celebrate the Drug Culture - Drugs are destroying the black community.  There isn't a dope boy in the country who wants to be a dope boy.  The Trap is just that, a Trap.  You'll either end up in jail or dead.  It's like playing Russian roulette with your life.  Trap or Die?  You might as well die because in the Trap you are killing yourself and your community slowly but surely. - Charlamagne Tha God 10 Commandments of Hip Hop..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

If you have ever studied my Ten Commandments of Hip Hop then you have definitely read the Fifth Commandment, "Thou Must Not Celebrate the Drug Culture".  There is nothing on this planet that has done more damage in the black community than drugs.  I'm sure there is some trap star, some D Boy out there that read that and said to him self, damage?  Does this Escalade I purchased with dope money look like damage?  You see my grill shining in my mouth, does that look like damage?  You see these diamonds on my neck and diamonds in my wrist; does this look like damage to you?  What the fuck Charlamagne mean by damage?  

 

Damage is defined as the occurrence of a change for the worse or causing damage to something or someone.  That something being the community and a family torn apart because the heads of the household are strung out.  That someone being a father, a mother or a newborn addicted to something he or she never even had the chance to deny.  That someone is a cousin you grew up idolizing but now he's just a feen.  You can't trust him because he breaks in your daddy's shop and steals a TV, raw whiting, some frying pans, and the cooking oil!  Then he tries to go right up the street to one of the local traps and sell my daddy shit and offers to fry fish dinners for a twenty of rock!  I wish I had made that up just now but I didn't.  It's a true sad story and I'm sure you can think of a few yourselves.  

 

How many people do you know that have been victims of crack cocaine?  I can think of athletes who where so talented in my hometown of Moncks Corner, SC.  I listen to older members of my family tell me how this person should have been in the NFL or this person should have been in the NBA but then he started smoking rock.  When I was young my pops used to point out to me feens walking down the road and say to me, "Boy that used to be one of the finest women in Moncks Corner."  "What happened," I replied.  "That rock did her bad," he would say.  That's why I don't understand how people can glorify being a dope boy!  

 

We live in an era where people really brag about that shit like it's a profession!  I need a Criminology major to study this shit because I don't understand.  I asked my wifey about that last line while typing this. I asked her whether I should say a Criminology major should study this shit.  She said that she didn't know because Criminology is the social-scientific study of crime and she didn't know if being a D Boy is a crime like a murderer.  Now I questioned whether or not I really wanted to breed with this young lady after she made such a dumb statement.  Then I realized there are so many people celebrating the drug game and commercializing it that it doesn't look criminal anymore but newsflash ladies in gentlemen, it is!  I don't care how many rappers talk about selling kilos in there music.  I don't care how many bricks were on the table on the last DVD, that shit is not legal.  

 

I proceeded to explain to my lady that A) People do die from drug overdoses which technically make the dealer a murderer; B) People do get robbed and killed for their packages.  I had to remind her about Paid in Full when Camron killed Mekhi Phifer in the lobby for those bricks.  Not to mention the dudes who wanted the drug money and shot the two innocent women in the bedroom and tried to blow Wood Harris' brains out; all that was directly related to drugs.  Sidebar: I'm about to cut all ties with this young lady. Why do I have to explain a real life issue to her and use movies as an example?  It is because these statistics may be over heard.

 

According to the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately 8.6 million Americans ages 12 or older reported trying crack cocaine at least once during their lifetimes, representing 3.5% of the population aged 12 or older.  In 2006 NSDUH data indicate that approximately 1.5 million (0.6%) Americans reported past year crack cocaine use and 702,000 (0.3%) reported past month crack cocaine use.  The 2006 NSDUH results also indicate that there were 245,000 persons ages 12 or older who used crack cocaine for the first time within the past 12 months.  Results of the 2007 Monitoring the Future survey indicate that 2.1% of eighth graders, 2.3% of tenth graders, and 3.2% of twelfth graders reported lifetime use of crack cocaine.  In 2006, these percentages were 2.3%, 2.2%, and 3.5%, respectively.

 

Do you see how many people's lives you dudes are damaging?  Do you see what you are doing to the future of our country?  This is what you brag about in your records and on your DVD's?  Why are niggas walking around glorifying this shit?  You walk around wearing t-shirts that say trap star and D Boys, you might as well wear a shirt that says indict me since you are obviously trying to make it easy for the Feds! The funny thing is most of you dudes glorifying it aren't making any real money!  The crack business it turns out is a modern, brutalized version of a Nineteenth Century sweatshop.  

 

Despite the popular notion that crack sellers all drive Mercedes-Benzes, wear gold jewelry, and get rich quick, most of the people in the business work around the clock, six to seven days a week, for low wages in an atmosphere of physical threat and control.  Their pay is often docked if they arrive late.  They may be shot or maimed if they are even perceived as trying to cheat their employers, and many fall into such debt to their bosses that they have to go into hiding.  Not to mention the success rate for drug dealers sucks!  You end up one or two places, jail or the mortuary.  

 

In 2004, cocaine was the primary drug involved in Federal drug arrests.  There were 12,166 Federal drug arrests for cocaine in 2004.  The DEA made 7,082 arrests for powder cocaine and 3,921 arrests for crack cocaine during 2004.  In 2006, there were 5,623 Federal defendants sentenced for crack cocaine-related charges in U.S. Courts.  Approximately 96% of the cases involved crack cocaine trafficking.  You are glorifying a game you can't win!  You are betting on a fixed fight!  The only people winning are the people that have been oppressing us from day one.  The people who put crack in the inner city communities after the civil rights movement.  The people who benefit from hours of free labor after your ass is doing 30 to life for being a D Boy.  The same people who benefit from our people being psychologically enslaved to whatever substance they choose to abuse.  This is what yall choose to celebrate?  This is what yall choose to glorify?  This is what yall are indirectly encouraging our kids to become?  Allah, help us all...

 

Charlamagne Tha God

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