Mi abuelo de mi papa es de Panama, y although shit might be bad, and he left way before shit really hit the fan, shit in JA is fucked up too. The Dons run things, the cops don't fucking care, and the government isn't that powerful. In certain areas it is str8 up lawlessness, and while that might sound refreshing to us who deal wit police brutatlity and profiling, it is refreshing to know that for the most part "justice", and protection is a phone call away.

My uncle has like 6 killer dogs, 2 gaurds, bars, and a system, and de dread dem still found a way to break in, and do some unspeakable shit. He knows who did it, and can do nothing, and these men still roam the streets...

...it's frustrating. The diaspora needs us to find solutions.

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"...take you back in time like sankofa- sankofa"

"Well, when your every breath and will to live is an act of resistance, you cannot help but be 'too political'. To do otherwise is to hide, to live in denial and defeat." --ArabHottie

" If we can't learn to live together despite the turmoil of past generations we are doomed." -Stern


"And where today is the stable community that would sustain such a couple, where one can be both poor and diginified and raise one's children with decency and hope... If the answer is education, does our society adequateley provide that tool of self-improvement to the less well off?"-- Sidney Poitier

" I'm not mad 'cus I'm losing! I'm mad 'cus I don't know how to win!" --Kevin Curtis Daniels Jr.

"And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,-all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,-who is good? Not that men are ignorant, -what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."
W.E.B. Dubois