nola's birthday

The demonization of immigrants, continues. When are we going to learn the value of what we have always been? A nation of immigrants that brings ingenue and worth to this country by giving immigrants what they don ‘t have elsewhere?

La Migra es el demonio.

ilovebiking

SAY IT LOUD!

KENYAN AND PROUD!

poets make the best dates. always all that lyricism and world dilemma solving on the first date. i can say with great clarity that this is just theory. but its funny, too.

dropsofmystory:

live1life:

steve coleman

MY DROPS: I LOVEEEEEE this poem. I was just listening to him coming into work (I got many of the poems performed on Def Poetry Jam on my zune)

Velma’s Heart.

As a black woman something inevitable comes across my mind when thinking about Velma Hart, that de-liberalized, “face of america” woman who on Sept. 20 became infamous for being tired of defending the President.  And that inevitable thought is, what were the rest of us black women thinking when she said that. And what voice would we be given had we the fortunate opportunity to speak to our commander-in-chief. Would we be so brash? Would we be so alarming? Her story is an important one, but I doubt very much that it’s representative of the black women I’ve known my entire life, or the grocery cashier that I’ve known for 20 yrs who couldn’t make it to the hill that day. So the bigger question becomes even bigger, not only, “Does she speak for us?” as the liberal media so frankly says she does, but “What made Velma Hart so disheartened in the first place?” or better yet, “What is the state of Velma Hart’s Heart?” It’s as a valid question as hers is. It’s a question we need to ask America as well.

Because, as I return to the previous remark, it hasn’t been hard or tiring for black women to defend Barack Obama to each other. In the supermarkets and food joints we frequent, it hasn’t been hard to defend his “no pre-existing conditions health care policy”, that allows our many young mothers to put their children on a health care plan. It hasn’t also been hard to defend his returning of American troops that sent our loved ones out to a falsely dignified war. It hasn’t been hard to defend his hiring of established women of color for the first time to established powers that be. It hasn’t been hard to defend his Workers Rights Act, that I see putting citizens to work on roads and trains everyday in my neighborhood. You see, my point is, that if you look hard enough, if you peer just beyond the jungles of political bullshit that clouds our vision, defending President Barack Obama, is especially doable. Maybe it’s just easier done in certain black women circles than in front of tens of thousands, and millions on nationally television. It makes us wonder, who Mrs. Hart was defending her position to. And while she was doing the defending, who was defending her, who was protecting her rights. Something makes me think it was President Barack Obama, digging up roots of problems that have plagued this country for decades. Something makes me know, and other black women know, that it was him. Please, let’s not continue to get down on the one President who thinks about pulling us up with him.

—-Mali Irvin, Nov. 2010.

queen me.

digging on you, brother. but you gotta know.
wow, sometimes I wish it was the early-mid 90s! at least the 90s from the r&b videos. finally, a photo w/grandma on her 79th birthday!

What I need from you is understanding
How can we communicate
If you don’t here what I say (Mmm…mmm…mmm…mmm…)
What I need from you is understanding
So simple as 1-2-3
Understanding is what we need

You don’t even know me
You just wanna do what you wanna do
That’s not the way it should be, no
You should listen to me, boy {You better listen to me, boy}

I try so very hard
To make you understand
But the choices you make
Baby, they’re old to me, oh

I try so very hard
To keep our love alive
But you don’t wanna meet me half way
Then the understanding dies

There’s no way that we can work it out
If we don’t pull together
I don’t mean to be demanding
But I want some understanding
I wanna be with you

What I need from you is understanding (Ooh…)
How can we communicate (Mmm….mmm…mmm…)
If you don’t here what I say
What I need from you is understanding (Mmm…hmm…)
So simple as 1-2-3 (Yeah)
Understanding is what we need

Your love is a life for i
Realized that so much
When i first met you
That was some time ago oh
From then until this
Resist no no no close to you
Oh yes right from the start
Oh no no no could never part
Oh i hear from that thought

I wanna live in your house
I wanna live in your house
You say dry your don’t
Wipe that tear drops from your eyes

Was in a little situation
Came with a solution
Was a revelation to hear
Triumphant calling
Triumphant trumpets
Scat
Spap spa da dap pap spa spa

Chorus
I wanna live in your house
I wanna live in your house

Oh i no hear
Too much for what some say
Cause at the close of the day
They’ll be so far away
But then i know
One things for certain
Came at the closing of the
Woo oh oh oh
Yes, i know one thing for certain
You’ll be there you’ll be there
It was you
That raise the flag above i head
Once when i was once when i was
In a little situation
Came with a solution
Was a revelation to hear
Triumphant calling
Triumphant trumpets

Chorus
I wanna live in your house
I wanna live in your house

To make i home
To make i home yeh
I wanna live

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whalesnacks:

(via shinyslingback, goodbyeforeverfatty)

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