Yesterday I went to see cappleton in concert (Raleigh-durham if y�all didn�t go, y�all missed a pretty good reggae show)

Of course I was expecting the whole burn chichiman/ bwattybwoy shteez/ and once cappleton�s opening acts came on�
*shrug/ the first guy was going on about that shit/ me and my girl were on the first row/ and I was yelling out no/ don�t burn the chichiman/ and at the end he was like, me still got love for you sista/ so that was kinda alright/

second cat spent basically >15 minutes singing about that shit/ burn a chichiman and a bwattybwuoy/ that was pretty much his whole set/

then cappleton came on and at one point in an otherwise really great concert started on dem chichiman a burn/ mo� fiyya on a bwatty bwoy and a lesbian �em/ mo� fiyyah and going on and on/

but what really irked/disturbed me was that the dudes (about 6 or 7 of em) around us were pointing at me and my girl and had their lighters on and shit/and singing mo� fiyyah!. It was like they were in a semi circle behind us/
it was very disturbing�./

I finally got pissed and was showing them �the� finger and asking what they problem was/ but still/
it�s not like we were all over each other/ we were just being/ i.e trying to enjoy the concert/ I was dancing with her and my venezolano friend (a he) so it wasn�t like we were� y�know/ slobbering over each other/ and most of those guys didn�t realize that we were �together� instantly/ it was more like a dawning awareness, y�know. Like I saw one dude that kept staring at us/trynna figure us out and when he finally did/ you could see the �oh shit� thought through his expression.

But yeah/ I guess some of y�all are thinking �it was reggae concert what did you expect�.
I did expect some of that/ to some extent/ I hadn�t figured on actually feeling like �I� was up on trial/ I hadn�t expected it to be that intense (that was like 5 songs deep/ shit! It�s usually 1 or 2 songs at the most/ (and I�ve been to plenty reggae shows/ even Buju let up a little on that shteez).

Why would I go/ knowing all this? Cause I like reggae/ shit they want to sing about burn bwattybwoy it�s not gonna turn me away/ im still gonna be at the shows/ pissed as hell and feeling like the step child/ but they are just gonna have to live with it/ and me/ cause i�m not going anywhere/ they want to claim Africa and Africans? Well guess what im part of Africa/ and im not going anywhere/ I don�t plan on boycotting any show/ especially because I don�t think you can force someone to change their view/ right? How do I feel about the violence in the lyrics/ it�s a damn shame/ preaching love/ equal rights and at the same time.../ I don�t know�. It hurts a little...

It�s ironical though because at one point cappleton was saying how reggae music is a music for alla de people dem/ it promotes tolerance/ equal rights and justice (c. peter tosh), self governance bladdy bla.

by the way, sizzla is next week/ same venue/ I wouldn�t miss it for the world/ and despite all this I enjoyed the cappleton show/ he played two of my fave tracks jahjah city and raggy road (this is the song that re intro'd me to reggae)/ politicized on the NO situation and bush/

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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

my bol from nigeria told me about how his pop and uncles put a tire around a homo's and pour gasoline on him and burned him alive
the ethnic black man don't play that homo shit
the american black man is mostly DL or conditioned to european standards and therefore is more tolerant

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most people mind their own business/ at least in most parts of nairobi/ and damn near all of the coast/
here's part of an email observation:

"One of the most notable things I observed was tolerance from the
general public.Not to say that people are out there and no one
cares,its just that most people seem less bothered,its like your
business is your business type of thing. I noticed many fem guys
doing their thing,in fact most Salons are full of openly gay fem
guys and no one is overly concerned. People no longer talk about
gays as a species or abnormal,many have embraced them,but theres
still an obvious level of discrimination,which is everywhere ,so no
big deal."


>my bol from nigeria told me about how his pop and uncles put
>a tire around a homo's and pour gasoline on him and burned him
>alive
>the ethnic black man don't play that homo shit
>the american black man is mostly DL or conditioned to european
>standards and therefore is more tolerant

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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

cityfolk are too busy for this kinda activity
at the same time the african "cityfolk" are viewed as becoming europeanized
either way just be safe if u go to more reggae concerts
i assume u are a woman
cause if u were a gay man you might have been assaulted,etc

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once on the way to school as a kid.
the people on the block had caught a burgler and had pile of tires around him. they had whooped his ass, and were presumably about to put a torch to it.
dont know if the cops came in time.

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With all due respect...
ask around.

and does that only happen in rural areas or in lagos too
also my bol told me its MAD homeless indians in lagos
is that true?

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but when that kind of mob/vigilante vengeance strikes...
i doubt the cops REALLY care.
its pretty much a "well thats what his ass gets" type of attitude.

this is the first im hearing of homless indians.
its possible.
there was a time when they would come to naija to work, but it was my understanding that most of them bounced by the mid-late 80s.

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With all due respect...
ask around.

not sure if it does as often as a couple of years ago/
but they find a thief they burn him/ people dont call cops/

and im talking in Nairobi/ not the village/
i remember once i was riding the school bus to school and we passed by a mob justice incidence and i actually saw the still burning corpse/ that shit disturbed me for days...


>and does that only happen in rural areas or in lagos too
>also my bol told me its MAD homeless indians in lagos
>is that true?

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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

its true there.
i never met anyone who knew the police depts. phone number.
like no '911' or anything.

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With all due respect...
ask around.

not that i've ever heard of someone using it either
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*TWINNING*

even if you call them
and live in the city
how quickly would they REALLY get there?

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With all due respect...
ask around.

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*TWINNING*

shit in nairobi it used to be so bad/ you call 999/ they tell you their cars have no petrol (gas) so if you need their help YOU need to go FILL up their GAS tank or PICK them up/

what do you do when you are told this shit?


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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

ESPECIALLY IF the criminal has ran away..

or they'll just beat you senseless




i miss africa
lol
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what are you going to do, call the cops on them?

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With all due respect...
ask around.

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you gotta give them money for everything/ else they just arrest you for wasting their time/
shit i remember last time i was back in nairobi: they cops stopped our bus and cause the drive refused to bribe him/ or something of the sort/ probably didn't give enough/ everyone was told to get off the bus/ and nobody said a damn word/ we were just by the side of the road like shit/ this mofo needs to stop being cheap and pay up/ cops gotta eat too!!


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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

In Ghana, 90% of the time the cops get there long after the crime is over.

So people handle it themselves

http://www.last.fm/user/Olu/
http://ghanageek.wordpress.com/

<<<<----Georgia Boy in an Irish uni doing it big. It don't get much mo' perfect than that.


EFF A GUBMENT! WE SAVING OURSELVES!

1-866-371-9SOS
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Go, go, go,go, go and on the count 'o 3?
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when you've never been there yourself

http://www.last.fm/user/Olu/
http://ghanageek.wordpress.com/

then STFU
look at ur response title then stfu nigga

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where exactly have you been on the continent?
For how long?

http://www.last.fm/user/Olu/
http://ghanageek.wordpress.com/

Jeremiah chapter 10 verse 23.

"It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."

"Is it not one father that all of us have? Is it not one God that has created us? Why is it that we deal treacherously with one another?" --Malachi 2:10

and i was like DAMN
thanks

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bol is my daddy's name/ cracks me up everytime you use it in the slang context..

i try and be careful/ yesterday if push came to shove i knew about 10 people at that concert/ and one of them has played the lincoln theatre several times so he knows all the bouncers/

yeah/ there's some 'perks' to being females


>cityfolk are too busy for this kinda activity
>at the same time the african "cityfolk" are viewed as becoming
>europeanized
>either way just be safe if u go to more reggae concerts
>i assume u are a woman
>cause if u were a gay man you might have been assaulted,etc

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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

a cat get dropped with the most vicious combination I've ever seen outside of a boxing ring. They don't play that gay dude stuff in Jamaica at all.

My homeboys from Zimbabwe/South Africa/Nigeria/Ghana/Uganda ALL say the same thing: the only gay dudes you'll see on the continent are the ones who have lived in the West and moved back. My partners from Zimbabwe used to say that beating a suspected gay cat down was commonplace in Harare.

"Is it not one father that all of us have? Is it not one God that has created us? Why is it that we deal treacherously with one another?" --Malachi 2:10

was it a tourist?
also how are the ghettos in JA
i wanna go there and go to the ghettos

but yea i know the ethnic black man don't play that
ppl always criticed jamaican or african men as being "too macho"
ironically more of those men stay in the household and raise their families
i personally don't know an african or island cat that grew up in a single mother household
go figure

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you are mad ignorant of JA culture, but you can tek a walk down ah Matches Lane, lots of interesting sights dere... *laughs*

i just played futbol wit them niggas
its MAD jamaicans in west philly btw
i wanna go there and chill in the ghetto tho
like DMX did on belly
but to see the culture, not on some thug tip
is it too dangerous,etc?

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just like most countries there are no-go areas, mostly confined to certain parts of Downtown Kingston. On the real, you couldn't walk down Matches Lane unless you knew someone down there... even the police can't go down certain places...

long as i ain't got no ice on or no throwbacks
how they gon know i ain't just another bum ass nigga

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(meaning flashy) probably na have na money, 'cause him spend it all pon him back.

In short, what you wearing don't matter in the way you think.

Most folk know me as OJ.

<< THE BLACKBIRD�... Rescheduled for early 2006. Sorry... but it's worth the wait.

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galong den my yout, take a stroll down ah 'the lane', come back and tell me how it was... *laughs*

Other places you can visit Warika Hill, Waterhouse, Tivoli Gardens, Tel Aviv... take pics whilst you are there. *cheese*

only difference is niggas in JA might use AK47s instead of beretta to go to war wit me

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there is a ghetto in Kingston and there are 'no-go areas'. It don't matter where the fuck you grew up if you don't know anyone in the places I've mentioned, you are running a very high risk of visiting personal harm on yourself.

dude, do you understand they have a Rolex store on RM?
that shit is litteraly like Rodeo Drive only it's in Mexico!

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no regrets
life is hectic

I got back...

>was it a tourist?
>also how are the ghettos in JA
>i wanna go there and go to the ghettos
He looked like a "native" Jamaican to me, one second I saw 2 cats talking, next thing I know I saw right to the body-left to the body-right to the jaw combo that left old boy on the ground SLEEP. I was asking the other people around what happened, and they wee saying "ees a 'batty-mon'..." I was like "WHAT?"

"A BATTY-MON!"

Somebody then told me that "batty-mon" was Jamaican patois / slang for "homosexual".

As far as the "ghettos" go, I did see some poor areas, and I walked through "Trenchtown", which may be some of the worst poverty I've ever seen, but I got nothing but love from the people. Even the knuckleheads in Kingston were cool than a mug. No threat at all.

>but yea i know the ethnic black man don't play that
>ppl always criticed jamaican or african men as being "too
>macho"
>ironically more of those men stay in the household and raise
>their families
Not to mention that Africans are the most educated immigrants in the U.S.

"Is it not one father that all of us have? Is it not one God that has created us? Why is it that we deal treacherously with one another?" --Malachi 2:10

you can say that once you come here it's much easier to come out/
as opposed to staying closeted in your home village because of fear
of public censure/ so that makes it seem like most of the gheys are those that 'go back'
but you cant use your argument to state that there are no gay africans/ you can use it to say that leaving and coming to a place where you actually have a space to exist and dont feel like some sort of abnormalcy/ makes it easier for people to accept self and even
face the possibility of coming out to family




>a cat get dropped with the most vicious combination I've ever
>seen outside of a boxing ring. They don't play that gay dude
>stuff in Jamaica at all.
>
>My homeboys from Zimbabwe/South Africa/Nigeria/Ghana/Uganda
>ALL say the same thing: the only gay dudes you'll see on the
>continent are the ones who have lived in the West and moved
>back. My partners from Zimbabwe used to say that beating a
>suspected gay cat down was commonplace in Harare.

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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

they don't hear you

"Is it not one father that all of us have? Is it not one God that has created us? Why is it that we deal treacherously with one another?" --Malachi 2:10

...but that sh!t started at like 10 yo. I'm trying to get a SQUAD of heads to go to this Sizzla show in 2 weeks. THAT'S gonna be a GOOD show!

"The more a country produces..the richer it is...the better it should take care of it's people. - Dr. Aleida Guevara"

it's not even a question/doubt


>...but that sh!t started at like 10 yo. I'm trying to get a
>SQUAD of heads to go to this Sizzla show in 2 weeks. THAT'S
>gonna be a GOOD show!

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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

..that sells tickets for all of their shows. I am trying to do this guest list thingy,..so if you and your girl wanna get freaky deaky(assuming that you are two women) with a brother that's finer than frog's hair,..holla atcha boy and I MIGHT can get you in . Just kidding...inbox me though.

"The more a country produces..the richer it is...the better it should take care of it's people. - Dr. Aleida Guevara"

i hate dancehall as of late but that song from a couple years back was the shit

T5 with the hot shit. *laughs*

but I'm gonna see him again when he comes up in November.

I'm glad nothing happened to you

oh and .. more fiyah pon'babylon, di'leadas dem a let di'people down

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no regrets
life is hectic

ovastanding and livicating//

>but I'm gonna see him again when he comes up in November.
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>I'm glad nothing happened to you
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>oh and .. more fiyah pon'babylon, di'leadas dem a let
>di'people down
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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

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my sentiment EXACTLY! Think about it....if you are so Godly and doing right in the eyes of Jah,..why concern yourself and exert your energy to chastize those who you deem are condemned by God anyways? Wouldn't God have a set plan for those people? So in my eyes it's like trying to either do God's work,...or they on some sussssssspect sh!t!

"The more a country produces..the richer it is...the better it should take care of it's people. - Dr. Aleida Guevara"