From The Green Institute, by way of Green Party Watch:
by Rosa A. Clemente
“Each generation out of relative obscurity, must discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” Frantz Fanon
It has been 45 days since the Hip Hop generation helped usher in the first Black male President of the United States of America. Since that historic night, many within Hip Hop culture, like writer Greg Kot of the Boston Globe, entrepreneur Russell Simmons, artists Common, Jay-Z and P. Diddy, have declared President-Elect Obama the first Hip Hop president. In my humble opinion they are wrong, dead wrong. It does not matter how many Hip Hop pundits, non-profit organizations, and recognizable figures within the culture declare it. Much like an MC or B-Girl battle, I’m ready to challenge that declaration.
As a long time community organizer and Hip Hop activist and journalist, I have always followed a rule: never allow someone to become your priority while you become his or her option. For President Elect Barack Obama and the entire Democrat Party leadership in this country, the Hip Hop generation has never been a priority, we have always been an option and that option is used mostly to get out the vote during elections. Efforts like Vote or Die, Generation Vote, Rock the Vote, Respect my Vote, do not empower a generation – they are catchy slogans emblazoned on pretty white tees that offer empty rhetoric. At the end of the day, those G.O.T.V. efforts become guaranteed votes for the Democratic Party and often fail to educate their followers about candidates that run outside of the two-party system.
Full article at http://www.greeninstitute.net/clemente_obama
McKinney / Clemente got my vote!
You need to work on that, CT. 😉
Not gonna happen, uh uh uh, yeah, Obama say we in the partyin’ clubbin’ fly like the wind, I be gettin’ the votes all day like I never been, 2012 Clemente can’t even flow through 100 votes, she be knealin’ down and praisin’ God that I not into sin, uh, uh, uh.