From ?uesto's Myspace page:ladies and gentleman.
super tuesday is upon us.
and we have a responsibility.
this is not a plee to you vote as i vote or do as i do.
(coughcoughbarack!coughcough)
just kidding.....
--well i'm not.
for someone so connected to an organization that's seen as "political" very rarely have i ever laid my personal politics on the line like this.
i mean personally? i've always rode that ever so easy "politicians are full of shit" stance so long that i actually numbed myself of all political activity in the past 5 to 6 years.
none of which has stopped any community work i've been connected to. but when it comes to actual issues that i feel personally effects me, it saddens me that i really don't look to my government for solutions.
"and what issues effect you personally mr-grammy-on-the-shelf-and-all-the-nikes-you can-eat?"
plenty.
i come from the school of "if my brother's life isn't fine then none of our lives are fine".
of course i feel our education system has been out of wack for as long as i've been alive....and the duration of my parents lifetime.---and before that it was damn near illegal for black people to be educated in this very country.
without putting people's business out there---i got people in my organization now whom i've known since they were 8 years old. and the nightmare stories i've heard about concerning their local public schools moved me enough to arrange it so that their parents can use my address so that their children can have access to the "better" schools in the neighborhood (hey--i agree, the day that black people stop using the "by any means even if i break the law to do what i feel is right" method is a day that is long time coming.)-it was worth all the effort put in the arrange such a scheme. it's either watch them die or run after an opportunity to save some lives.
for those of you really in the dark just watch season 4 of The Wire. if THAT shit don't scare you straight then im sorry....you dont have a soul. i've travelled the globe 20 times over in my life and it amazes me the amount of effort that the government puts into its education in other countries. over in france, argentina, norway, and denmark they dont even charge college tuition!!!
most of you people have Phrenology so no need to go through "Water" again and again.
but as a cat who knows mad drug "offenders" i've never agreed with the issues of "jail as rehab" that our government issues time and time again to non violent offenders. for starters you get the same shit in jail as you do in the outside world....so no rehab there.
and the racist double standard of new york rockefeller laws have NEVER gone down smooth with me (basically those caught with crack cocaine powder get harsher sentences than those caught with regular cocaine----in case you live on another planet...crack is a cheaper affordable substance primarily used by people of color--as opposed to the higher echelon white powder substance used by well....need i spell this out?)
pretty much i gotta go through some sort of profiling (albeit not to the level of buff, ny----shit like that happens to me about once every other year.....which already is 14 times too much) with the authorities. it happens so much that i swore the only shit that kept me calm during that whole ordeal was the false premise of "i guess they are just doing their jobs"----shame i gotta lie to myself to keep my sanity. but seriously.....im certain that most white americans dont get anxiety to the neat point of instant colonics whenever they see cops in their rear view mirror.....i mean im as straight as 6:00 and i even i feel like a drug cartel making a run if i get behind the wheel with a cop running my plates behind me.
have i been conditioned to just accept that is how life is? and take it?
look i promised i wasn't going to turn this into the "who will ahmir back blog"---
but i know its so easy to dismiss this election as a meaningless process. i mean i dont even know why im doing this.
one day i woke up and i just.....
well i felt inspired.
i heard the words of Senator Obama and i really felt like he was being "REAL" with me. not just saying shit i wanna hear while he lays his own agenda into effect while the wool is pulled over my eyes.
and although im not playing the smear game....i'd wish people would cut the "does he have experiene?!?!? card. all these revisionists are mistaking hill's 8 years as first lady as a sign of experience. meanwhile his list of community services goes above and beyond the call of duty.
---actually im really about to put my money where my mouth is. i went to the los angeles headquarters and volunteered my services. its almost 1am and im finna to drive door to door to put pamphlets and voting information on the doors of the potential voters.
we finally have a chance to truly make a change this upcoming election.
i BEG of you people that are able to vote on super tuesday to vote
please!
(pardon the run on sentances....its been a long day)
now go on!
GET OUT AND VOTE!
