7 Mar, 2008 in
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When you pray, move your feet. To pray for the safety and security of Gustav victims without moving our feet to help clear debris, or at the least lifting our wallets to help afford the cleanup, is to speak love of neighbor and practice indifference.To pray for the life of an unborn baby without lifting our[...]
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K’naan, my latest musical obsession, has a song called “what is hardcore?” the lyrics, in part read:
I walk with three kids that can’t wait to meet Godlately, that’s Bucktooth, Mohamed and Crybaby,what they do everyday just to eat lord have mercy,strapped with an AK and they blood thirsty…
So what’s hardcore? Really, are you hardcore? Hmm.So what’s hardcore? Really, are you hardcore? Hmm.
We begin our day by the way of the gun, rocket propelled grenades blow you away if you front,we got no police ambulance or fire fighters,we start riots by burning car tires,they looting, and everybody start shooting,bullshit politicians talking bout solutions, but it’s all talk, you can’t go half a block with a road block, you don’t pay at the road block you get your throat shot,and each road block is set up by these gangsters,and different gangsters go by different standards,for example, the evening is a no go, unless you wanna wear a bullet like a logo,in the day you should never take the alleyway,the only thing that validates you is the AK,they chew on Jad it’s sorta like coco leafs,and there ain’t no police…
I can’t imagine any more fitting song, for this warrior to be listening to. Imagine the strange confluence of geo-political events that led to a lifetime of cultural practice –lip disk–, an AK47 assault rifle and an Ipod? Is this what Apple had in mind with it’s sales targets? We’re uncreative enough, as a society, to kill one another for that which we think is scarce but we find ways to bring iPods and Weapons to the table of a rough beast of ideology that is never fulfilled.