Getting straight to the point; in the United States of America, there is a name for everything. If you live [not visited] there, you know this. It’s a place we call home. We represent our cities among a galore of enemies. To me, being a proud American has often meant the Continue Reading
Marcus Garvey’s African Nationalism Pt. 3
No one is saying not to be fashionable. Drive your truck, leave your man and go with another man. Have a bastard, drink, have a side chick, don’t get married. Forget to pray, smoke weed, sing, rap, dance, party and get money. Living your life how you want is not what Continue Reading
Marcus Garvey’s African Nationalism Pt. 2
Marcus Garvey’s African Nationalism pt. 2 is an effort to ignite a worldwide awareness to return Blacks to their African roots. All over the world, true Hiphoppas are setting aside the crimester image of the exploitative music industry. Many now deliver a conscious message of Afrocentrism, Garvey-ism, Pan African-ism, the Continue Reading
Marcus Garvey’s African Nationalism Pt. 1
In Marcus Garvey’s African Nationalism pt. 1 we will focus on the Arab Spring. It has spread like wildfire in the Northern African states of Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. Long-standing North African governments did not see it coming. However, the Arab Spring fell short of accomplishing the same agenda in Continue Reading
The Pan African Creed Pt. 3
wNo African has ever deemed the West as an enemy.” Hip Hop music did not exist when Dr. Kwame Nkrumah made his Pan African pitch, though black culture endured long before that. Why would the Federal Bureau of Investigations mind Dr. Nkrumah? Consider that it was Benito Mussolini who committed Continue Reading
The Pan African Creed Pt. 2
The Pan African adaptation is one that takes place on a global forum. One cannot say the West despises Africa although they enslaved the people, defrocked the economy and colonized us. They exploited our mineral resources and prevented the heritage from reaching a mainstream attraction. Likewise, one cannot say that Continue Reading
The Pan African Creed Pt. 1
There is a modern bastardization of the Pan African movement. Some people believe that Afrocentrism, Nubian-ism or Pan African-ism is socialist beliefs. They have wrongly mistaken the late 1990s through to this point. These comprehensions are not fundamentalist opinions. More to the misconception is the taint of Pan African pathfinders. Continue Reading
Afrocentrism Pt. 2
The goal is to restore our lost heritage and garner universal respect for Africans. It is necessary to reiterate that Africans have a long line of Royal ancestry just like Europe, Russia, The Middle East, or Asia. Afrocentrism is a pursuit to free the minds of black people from low Continue Reading
Afrocentrism
The Universal Zulu Nation also teaches a doctrine that is closely related to Abraham doctrines. We’ve examined Christianity, Islam, and Judaism as Abrahamic faiths that influenced the basis of modern culture. African culture is a none racist experience that welcomes all people. To experience African culture accurately anyone who declares Continue Reading
Universal Zulu Nation – Pt. 5
THE WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE FIFTEEN BELIEFS OF THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION – SECTION. 3 15] “The Universal Zulu Nation Stands Strong and firm on these basic elements of life, and that are: 1) Knowledge: to know everything that is anything in this world, or beyond this world in Continue Reading
Universal Zulu Nation – Pt. 4
THE WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE FIFTEEN BELIEFS OF THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION – SECTION. 2 …it seems like Hell is ruling over Heaven, and Humans must correct their wrongs or else they are headed for destruction as it is prophesied by the Prophets of God. 8] “Yes, Human Beings Continue Reading
Universal Zulu Nation – Pt. 3
THE WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE FIFTEEN BELIEFS OF THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION – SECTION. 1 1] “We Believe in one God, not in pagan Gods like the God of the Sun, Wind, Fire, Earth, Water, Ice, or hundreds of Gods but only in one God who is called by Continue Reading
Universal Zulu Nation – Pt. 2
The “Belief page” on the Universal Zulu Nation’s website has the full list of their philosophical system. One of their main emphasis is on the notion of “Factology.” They prefer fact over belief. By belief, the Nation names any, and all dogmas. Any myth or pedagogy taught as per religion Continue Reading
Universal Zulu Nation – Pt. 1
This blog continues with the various agencies of cultural philosophies that collectively represent the creed of Hip Hop. Here we embrace Afrika Bambaataa’s Zulu Nation. Let’s have a quick recap, shall we? We’ve covered Christianity, Islam, and Judaism and ascertained that they are significant faiths in the Kulture. These monotheistic Continue Reading
Undocumented & Seeking The Dream Act
Right off the bat, if you are an immigrant, you have displaced yourself from your home country. That is why you try to fit into the foreign country. For example, let’s look at Jose Vargas’ story. We see that poverty displaced his family, which is the main reason why his Continue Reading