this is in respomse to cipher8 and b00g1e.


i think the number one problem is that people don't even realize they are not free- the illusion of freedom vs. the reality of freedom. so revolution, mental, spiritual, or physical, is incomprehensible to so many who are not free, cuz they think they are, and don't see a reason for change.

i believe that a successful revolution will begin by spreading information (educating) to the poorest of society. there have been many who have done the research to build a valid case against the world powers that have sponsored sytematic exploitation and oppression, but it remains locked w/in the intellectual, african-centered, pro-comm/pro-socialist, groups, and never reaches the people who need the information the most. but i also think that the people w/ this information underestimate the ability/will of the poor to dig it.

something else that i think is often overlooked is that true revolution will be inter-generational, and key to the success will be the ability to effectively pass the knowledge and revolutionary spirit to our children. that's why the most revolutionary, the most african-centered thing we can do right now is to take care of home and family, so that as we grow in our knowledge and learn how to spread the information, we will have a powerbase that lives even when the flesh dies. we have to translate what we know to our husbands/wives, sons/daughters, fathers/mothers...
even if they eat pork and have different religious beliefs (cuz some people keep they children away from their families for these reasons)

"i'm an african" by dead prez:

i'm a runaway slave watchin the north
star
shackles on my forearm runnin w/ a gun in my palm

those of us who overstand have to stop separating ouselves from the people and use what we know (the only gun we really have right now) to come and free the people (the minds)...so we are all caught up (shackled), some of us just have the knowledge (the gun) to start changing ish, on whatever level. free the minds and the current state of society will become unacceptable and physical revolution will be a natural development.

the middle class might even get a clue.

**********THE SIG**********

i'm a tru pisces tryna flow in the direction of both of these okplayer quotes:

"I m raising a fuckin angelic being who is going to replenish this fuckin earths cuz in 2G all we fuckin do is talk.....im teachin my seed to turn his spirit inside out and spread beams of green light"
-nebbie

"GOd give me the strength to change the things i can, understanding for those i cannot and the muthafuckin heart to stand up for my beliefs and principles, so that when the government that is suppossed to protect me turns against me and my people we will have the means, the might and the muthafuckin gun power to blow away our oppressors
umm amen"
-earthqueen

and last but not least:

"all things considered, i'd rather be me"
-bfnh