#StopKony
08 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
Ok. Ok. I said to myself I wouldn’t get involved with peoples opinions on the Stop Kony viral campaign, but I’ve been completely taken aback with some of the opinions from ‘informed’ individuals.
In very short, I’m sick of hearing the ‘White Man’ notion being applied to any sign of compassion people make. People are quick to label ignorance, but as soon as something clicks with people provoking a reaction everyone is deemed band-wagon-wankers. A bunch of anti-Africa fascists, and this viral was just more fuel.
Yes I am against contract US military intervention in Uganda, especially it being a nation who’s government is far from healthy itself, but the fundamental purpose of the video was awereness. How can you not support that? And don’t bring this condescending bullshit about “It’s been happening for 25 years, why now?” Not everyone’s main interests is foreign politics and social circumstances. Not everyone is familiar with the current happenings of each and every country, so jump off your high horse and appreciate positive collective unity, as feeble as you may think it is.
Seriously, when did human life become to personify politics? When did the value of living become based on the premonitions of overzealous anti-imperialists?
‘The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice’ – Bryan Stevenson (Grandson of Rosa Parks)
07 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
Solutionaries.
22 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
We have compromised our divinity for far too long,
Let them spin us in a web leading to delusion and death,
Let them devour soul to flesh,
heart in chest,
mind and breath.
We be picking death as if it’s the only option left,
But when the only thing that matters is the making of a dollar,
Where cowards become kings, and the heartless have the power,
We humble down,
Deep, deep down retroverted into our own soul, blind to the true powers we hold,
Let them pimp our daughters, rape our mothers, pollute our land and spoil our waters.
Who here stands for freedom that never quite touches our tongue?
For the light too dim to see from the graves they have carved to resemble our futures?
Still searching for those willing to serve,
Understand that we are intrinsically human and each will blossom.
Cause if you’re not part of the solution,
You must be..
Here Is The Classic Equation
20 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
You divide up a family, multiply mummies movements, cause daddy done moved to where no responsibility can ever find him, add in depression and bitterness, subtract the encouragement, then watch the percentages fill up the prisons, see we master mathematicians. - Sunni Patterson
Your body’s just a vehicle, transporting your soul. It’s what’s inside of people, there’s beauty to behold..
19 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
The ‘Truth’
16 Oct 2011 1 Comment
I’ve been racking my brains over how to start this darn blog post for the past month…
Trying to figure out how to approach introducing my idea on probably the most misunderstood, flammable, contradictory and overused word. Universal in the sense that all are ignorant to it.
Truth.
I have a father, who is as awkward, hostile, ignorant and just generally disconnected from the world we live in as possible; he’s African. So you can only imagine the heated arguments we’ve had…
I was 17 and was reading The God Delusion by the infamous Richard Dawkins (excellent book btw); the title says it all really. The lecture began. *sigh*
Now, I like to look at things logically. My belief in Islam is ultimately a belief. It is not fact, simply because if it were, the whole world would be muslim. Right. Apparently not. This particular belief is “the Truth.”
Islam is my truth. Not the truth.
Trying to explain this to an old guy, who’s idea’s have been entrenched by culture, reinforced by judgement, and protected by ignorance, was literally *gunshot to head*.
I ask simply, what the fuck is truth?
Objective? Absolute? Subjective? Relative? Huh..
“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.” - James Russell Lowell
Humanity
15 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment
Truth be told,
This feeling of anticipated serendipidity makes the heart grow cold.
As frustration pears its beady eyes,
It leaves me breathless in my demise,
As they take one more gasp of ignorance,
I crave for the last nail to be hammered.
Pain has nothing on this concoction of emotion; Confused and resentful of the limitation life brings.
Leaving each soul forever burning in a fire of sweet salt,
No direct mention of lies, But no truth to be taught.
Peoples & Me
15 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment
I’m tired. So completely shattered because of people.
I have felt myself literally cave inwards at times.
Accepted my inadequacy as a human being and a soul.
Felt not hopeless but that there was nothing to hope for.
I’m not talking about suicide, I’m not that stupid and reckless.. but the complete deterioration of me as a person as the years go by.
Mind Vs. Everything Else
15 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
Feeling so lost when you know exactly what you should be doing is the most confusing BS you can ever go through.
