Now That's Gangsta...Check Out These Hip-Hop Cats Flexing Their Power
Posted on March 14, 2008 11:34 AM
Every time you turn on the news you hear about how out of control and irresponsible the hip-hop generation is. But the cats in this YouTube clip prove folks wrong. Young people of color all over this country are fighting to change their communities everyday.
The town hall meeting is not out of style nor is nonviolent direct action.
(Note to readers: I helped start this organization (The Campaign Against Violence) a couple years ago.)
Posted by Biko
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Truthfully using the most efficient tools of change. The most effective reforms start at a local level by grassroots movements, CAV is the beginning of a truly beautiful thing. Even if it started as a movement of young people of color, it should not and cannot stop there! It shouldn't even stop at minorities! The key to make this truly effective is unity amongst the people no matter the ethnicity, not only black people should be outraged everybody should, if everybody joins and works together then we could be watching history in the making. And not history of a person and what he did but of the people and what we as one did! This is like the progressive movement that furthered our country in the late 1800's and early 1900's, America's social reforms of the time were revolutionary and all though African-Americans did not see much change at the time the movement paved the way (with black activists such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois). What made the progressives so successful was their unity: blacks and whites, men and women, republican and democrat! Who you were didn't matter it was what they stood for, and the fact that they were realistic and didn't just act on their hearts, but their brains. Just because it ideally was right, somethings just weren't truly possible. That being said this IS a possible change, and the people should rally together to make the change happen.
Them Crackers aint listening to that. I respect you went but speak up. That is a shame handcuffing children. WOW them bastards must be running out of niggaz to arrest.
This was an interesting video. Its a good start and they are definatly not alone in this fight.
Biko... this is beautiful duke... Mang keep doin what ya do.. build and get stronger.