It's Been a Long Time...
I shouldn't a left you, without a dope beat to step to...
I'll really try not to make such lapses in posts a habit. Sometimes we all go through personal battles which keep us from doing the things we really want to do. I'm sure a lot of us have done plenty of thinking in the last couple of months with the election and numerous holidays. We've seen the tremendous power of nature in what can only be summed up as an act of God. Tomorrow is the day that Congress certifies Bush as the winner of the election. Despite some impressive efforts, it's doubtful the wimpy Democrats will challenge anything, effectually giving way to an unprecedented era of one-party rule. The road ahead looks pretty bleak.
However, this is not the end- it is only the beginning. We are living in crucial times, but we can get through them. Those who seek to absorb the wealth and resources of this world for themselves may seem incredibly powerful but those who choose to oppose them have an underestimated advantage: humanity. No one human is any more powerful than any other human under God. It's like Mos Def said in Fear Not of Man: "the world is overrun with the wealthy and the wicked/ but God is sufficient as disposer of affairs." That's the truth right there. Now of course that doesn't mean that we should all just sit around and wait for beam from the sky to turn our world into a utopia. We have to get out and do the work. It's going to take more than just writing your Congressman, or getting out the vote.
The revolution will not be televised, it will only be produced by those who are so angry and so tired of all the nonsense that nothing less than satisfaction will do. We can't be satisfied when people are afraid of getting sick because they can't afford to go to the doctor. We can't be satisfied when our troops are occupying other countries with insufficient equipment for insufficient reasons with an insufficient Executive Branch. We can't be satisfied when Native Americans are still suffering from alcoholism and depression as a result of United States conquest. We cannot, cannot, cannot be satisfied when our President has never given sworn testimony before the 9/11 Commission ALONE.
Now is the time my friends. Now is the time. We must wake up and take action. If not for us, then for the principles of freedom, truth, and justice that this country is supposed to stand for.
Please give for the tsunami relief effort! Remember Somalia too!
The Enlightenment
I'll really try not to make such lapses in posts a habit. Sometimes we all go through personal battles which keep us from doing the things we really want to do. I'm sure a lot of us have done plenty of thinking in the last couple of months with the election and numerous holidays. We've seen the tremendous power of nature in what can only be summed up as an act of God. Tomorrow is the day that Congress certifies Bush as the winner of the election. Despite some impressive efforts, it's doubtful the wimpy Democrats will challenge anything, effectually giving way to an unprecedented era of one-party rule. The road ahead looks pretty bleak.
However, this is not the end- it is only the beginning. We are living in crucial times, but we can get through them. Those who seek to absorb the wealth and resources of this world for themselves may seem incredibly powerful but those who choose to oppose them have an underestimated advantage: humanity. No one human is any more powerful than any other human under God. It's like Mos Def said in Fear Not of Man: "the world is overrun with the wealthy and the wicked/ but God is sufficient as disposer of affairs." That's the truth right there. Now of course that doesn't mean that we should all just sit around and wait for beam from the sky to turn our world into a utopia. We have to get out and do the work. It's going to take more than just writing your Congressman, or getting out the vote.
The revolution will not be televised, it will only be produced by those who are so angry and so tired of all the nonsense that nothing less than satisfaction will do. We can't be satisfied when people are afraid of getting sick because they can't afford to go to the doctor. We can't be satisfied when our troops are occupying other countries with insufficient equipment for insufficient reasons with an insufficient Executive Branch. We can't be satisfied when Native Americans are still suffering from alcoholism and depression as a result of United States conquest. We cannot, cannot, cannot be satisfied when our President has never given sworn testimony before the 9/11 Commission ALONE.
Now is the time my friends. Now is the time. We must wake up and take action. If not for us, then for the principles of freedom, truth, and justice that this country is supposed to stand for.
Please give for the tsunami relief effort! Remember Somalia too!
The Enlightenment
posted by Talib at 10:19 PM
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