It's Your Turn

Dear Fellow Rebels,

Now is the chance to tell me what topic you would like to hear about next. Post a comment and enter a suggested topic and I'll right about it no matter what it maybe.

Yours Truly,

Young Rebel

Rye Rye - Shake It To The Ground (VEVO @ SXSW)

A Visit With My Fellow Rebels

Dear Future Rebels,

Just came back from an amazing college visit from Wesleyan University. I had the sickest time with awesome people. I mean I just loved the vibe. I had the chance to go to this Open Mike Night in their lounge immersed in graffiti the students are so chill yet so utterly intriguing. There talent was outta this world. And hey.. How amazing is that ! What really hooked me in was the Malcolm X house.

Now don't make that face at me. Malcolm X was a radical and inspiring rebel who defied odds and whose words can still be read and heard. I know now I'm sounding like a book. But, check him out, learn and inform yourself. I mean I even saw some Wesleyans (at least thats what I call them) walking around reading his autobiography . Check it !

I also found out that the artist Santogold is an Alumni of Wesleyan. This made me think of M.I.A for some odd reason.

And I love this artist she is able to incorporate so much beat rhythm, poetry, politics, and culture. She is a true rebel. That really has got me thinking, I really want to incorporate music, rap, hip-hop, soul, and alternative with poetry. Reciting with Music. Telling a story through . music. Thats beautiful. Now if only I could come up with a poetic title ( a name) I'm thinking of calling myself Justice short for Poetic Justice or Nova or maybe Lady X ... Let me know what you think. Fight the Power .

Yours Truly,

Young Rebel

p.s

Next post will be more informative promise !

MIA'S NEW SONG *I'm a singer*

Third World America

My Loyal Followers,

Though very few I do appreciate all your support. Sorry I have not been posting as often as I would like to. But here we go, on with today's new topic...( Sorry if I'm kind of rusty).

For weeks and weeks now I have stood by and watched advertisement after advertisement, propaganda after more propaganda for candidates for the Election which took place a few nights ago. I have to say that as Americans today, we have almost lost ability to choose who and we want, because we are flood with false ideas about candidates and what there platform and what they represent. These advertisement that we see on tv on billboards, in the mail and what we here on the radio is completely ridiculous. They tell Americans who they should vote for, for the most insignificant reasons. I heard one recently about one particular candidate that sad don't vote for him he's UN-American because he doesn't stand up for the pledge of allegiance. What?!! It seems as though the whole election season was a civil war between red and blue, and Democrats and Republicans. We have forgotten the purpose and the meaning of a vote. This election is not meant to divide an American people but to unite us, so that we can make the best decisions for our nation. The American people have become blinded by the fallacies that we hear and see.

We as a nation voted a Black Democratic President into office in 2008 -2009 in the hopes that he would bring change, yet we won't allow it. We are constantly criticizing every move he makes, so much so that we are restricting change. And now with the Republicans taking over the House of Representatives, we have made change stagnant. Apparently, America at least dominant white America is too afraid to see too much change. Guess, a Black President was to much for them. Just a thought.

Yours truly,

Young Rebel

Speak up!

Dear Sista,
I haven't spoken up for a while. Finally, released from the faceless voiceless cages of the margins, ghettos, the prisons used to isolate, seperate,and segrate a nation of people. All. It is ... Solitude
Hear this..

Right from the go, let me make one thing absolutely clear: I am not now, nor have I ever been, a white man. Nor, I hasten to add, am I now a Black Muslim-- although I used to be. But I am an Ofay Watcher, a member of that unchartered, amorphous league which has members on all continents and the islands of the seas. Ofay Watchers Anonymous, we might be called, because we exist concealed in the shadows wherever colored people have known oppression by whites, by white enslavers, colonizers, imperialists, and neo-colonists.

Did it irritate you compatriot, for me to string those epithets out like that? Tolerate me. My intention was not necessarily to sprinkle salt over anyone's wounds. I did it primarily to relieve a certain pressure on my brain. Do you cop that? If not, then we're in trouble, because we Ofay Watchers have a pronounced tendency to slip into that mood. If it is bothersome to you, it is quite a task for me because not too long ago it was my way of life to preach, as ardently as I could, that the white race is a race of devils, created by their maker to do evil, and make evil appear as good; that the white race is the natural, unchangeable enemy of the black man, who is the original man, owner, maker, cream of the planet Earth; that the white race was soon to be destroyed by Allah, and that the black man would then inherit the earth, which has always, in fact, been his.

- Eldridge Cleaver

Soul On Ice

Now lets caucus about that this narrative. In this short passage Cleaver highlights the feelings, opinons, and moods of countless Black Americans during the 1960s. He brings the reader the listener the observer on a journey through history when he refers to white Americans as " white enslavers, colonizers, imperialists, and neo-colonists".

He is defining is identity, who he was in the past and who he no longer is. I know it may seem a bit radical. But, that's what America needed and still needs today. A voice, a presence, someone to declare her true self wholly. Today we live in an a America that endorses conformism, and rewards people for being average, regular, and sharing the same beliefs as everyone else. Especially in the elections we hear about our candidates being the "average joe" or a "regular old guy".Eldridge Cleaver steps out of the margins, he steps out of this sea of sameness and declares who he is and does not even give America's mass media a chance to redefine him. Why not be unique, why strive for beyond intellectual excellence? Another question I have is why do we as Americans pay to hear and fallacies?Pure BS. In tabloids, in election ads, and everywhere. We are paying for propaganda to demean us. They are telling us who we are indeed not.
Just a thought.
Yours truly,
Young Rebel

We are Warriors

If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying " I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity," then the girl's father and mother... shall display the cloth [ that the couple slept on] before the elders of the town... If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl's virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death.
- Deuteronomy 22: 13-21
We live in a world which embraces the concept of purity in women so tightly that an intact hymen is of higher value than gold, while the women themselves are demeaned to sub humanity. A society of men that exploit and molest the female being in every way possible : mentally, spiritually and sexually. And, the hymen a seemingly pointless piece of a woman's anatomy has been stripped by man and made into an object of worship among many societies and religions around the world; declaring the hymen worth more than human life. We have become a society of creatures obsessed with virginity and so brainwashed that women have become defined and valued for what lies between their legs rather than their intellect, ability, or character.
In war, countless soldiers face death while the female population lives in an seemingly eternal hell on earth. Women are brutality raped, so badly at times their organs become punctured and they bleed to death. Rape, an action more impacting than death in that it has the ability to demean a woman, dishonor a family, and disgrace a tribe. Rape, is more than sexual desire it is control and hatred humanity. In the Congo woman is raped when seen by soldiers, she is gang raped and then stabbed with sticks and knives through her vagina , marking her physically forever an impure woman, as well as leaving her with fistulas and so much same that she has no choice but to commit suicide. In many continents in Asia and Africa women are blamed for their own rape. Soldiers, Men, and boys believe that it is undoubtedly their right to rape any and every girl or woman they see no matter the age. 0-100 no female goes untouched. Her hymen is the most important piece of them and once that has diminished they are dead to society.

We live in a world where if a woman does not bleed on her wedding night she is stoned to death. Or if a woman has consensual sex she is convicted of a crime of fornication and is sentenced to death by stoning, burning,and decapitation by religious leader as well as her own family. Many of us live in a nation, or a village in which rape is so prevalent that it has become the cultural norm and is labeled tradition. In Ethiopia a man rapes, kidnaps and rapes a girl he wishes to marry if he does not have enough to pay the bride price or if he is not accepted by the family, demeaning the value of the woman, so that no one else would ever want her. Those who break this tradition face death.
Virginity in many instances has become a cult, used to imprison women of the world. A woman political leader can be completely discredited if she raped in an Africa, and in South Asia. We, as citizens of the world have promoted an gendercide of the female species through the derogative slurs, the media, and in war. WE MUST NOT ALLOW THIS CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY TO RESIDE. The need to topple these social systems and transform humanity from feens to beings again. We must save our other Half, Women. Our obsession with purity is killing !
Education = key