Feb 13, 2006 21:36
Most of my Latino and
black people who are struggling to get food, clothes and shelter in the
hood are so concerned with that, that philosophising about freedom and
socialist democracy is usually unfortunately beyond their rationale.
They don't realise that America can't exist without separating them
from their identity, because if we had some sense of who we really are,
there's no way in hell we'd allow this country to push it's genocidal
consensus on our homelands. This ignorance exists, but it can be
destroyed.
Niggaz' talk about change and working within the
system to achieve that. The problem with always being a conformist is
that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who
changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.
There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation, but
compromising yourself in a situation is another story completely, and I
have seen this happen long enough in the few years that I've been alive
to know that it's a serious problem. Latino America is a huge colony of
countries whose presidents are cowards in the face of economic
imperialism. You see, third world countries are rich places, abundant
in resources, and many of these countries have the capacity to feed
their starving people and the children we always see digging for food
in trash on commercials. But plutocracies, in other words a government
run by the rich such as this one and traditionally oppressive European
states, force the third world into buying overpriced, unnecessary goods
while exporting huge portions of their natural resources.
I'm
quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments and
look for hypocrisy and hatred in my words. My revolution is born out of
love for my people, not hatred for others.
You see, most of Latinos
are here because of the great inflation that was caused by American
companies in Latin America. Aside from that, many are seeking a life
away from the puppet democracies that were funded by the United States;
places like El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Columbia, Nicaragua, Ecuador
and Republica Dominicana, and not just Spanish-speaking countries
either, but Haiti and Jamaica as well.
As different as we have been
taught to look at each other by colonial society, we are in the same
struggle and until we realize that, we'll be fighting for scraps from
the table of a system that has kept us subservient instead of being
self-determined. And that's why we have no control over when the
embargo will stop in Cuba, or when the bombs will stop dropping in
Vieques.
But you see, here in America the attitude that is fed
to us is that outside of America there live lesser people. "Fuck them,
let them fend for themselves." No, _fuck you_, they _are_ you. No
matter how much you want to dye your hair blonde and put fake eyes in,
or follow an anorexic standard of beauty, or no matter how many
diamonds you buy from people who exploit your own brutally to get them,
no matter what kind of car you drive or what kind of fancy clothes you
put on, - you will never be them. They're always gonna look at you as
nothing but a little monkey. I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather
than desperately try to be something I'm really not, just to fit in.
And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or
lack of culture is feeding us.
I want a better life for my
family and for my children, but it doesn't have to be at the expense of
millions of lives in my homeland. We're given the idea that if we
didn't have these people to exploit then America wouldn't be rich
enough to let us have these little petty material things in our lives
and basic standards of living. No, that's wrong. It's the business
giants and the government officials who make all the real money. We
have whatever they kick down to us. My enemy is not the average white
man, it's not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the street;
my enemy is the white man I don't see: the people in the white house,
the corporate monopoly owners, fake liberal politicians--those are my
enemies. The generals of the armies that are mostly
conservatives--those are the real mother-fuckers that I need to bring
it to, not the poor, broke country-ass soldier that's too stupid to
know shit about the way things are set up.
In fact, I have more
in common with most working and middle-class white people than I do
with most rich black and Latino people. As much as racism bleeds
America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue. Many of
us are in the same boat and it's sinking, while these bourgeis
mother-fuckers ride on a luxury liner, and as long as we keep fighting
over kicking people out of the little boat we're all in, we're gonna
miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole.
In
other words, I don't want to escape the plantation--I want to come
back, free all my people, hang the mother-fucker that kept me there and
burn the house to the god damn ground. I want to take over the
encomienda and give it back to the people who work the land.
You
cannot change the past but you can make the future, and anyone who
tells you different is a fucking lethargic devil. I don't look at a few
token Latinos and black people in the public eye as some type of
achievement for my people as a whole. Most of those successful
individuals are sell-outs and house Negroes.
But, I don't
consider brothers a sell-out if they move out of the ghetto. Poverty
has nothing to do with our people. It's not in our culture to be poor.
That's only been the last 500 years of our history; look at the last
2000 years of our existence and what we brought to the world in terms
of science, mathematics, agriculture and forms of government. You know
the idea of a confederation of provinces where one federal government
controls the states? The Europeans who came to this country stole that
idea from the Iroquois lead. The idea of impeaching a ruler comes from
an Aztec tradition. That's why Montezuma was stoned to death by his own
people 'cause he represented the agenda of white Spaniards once he was
captured, not the Aztec people who would become Mexicans.
So in
conclusion, I'm not gonna vote for anybody just 'cause they black or
Latino--they have to truly represent the community and represent what's
good for all of us proletariat.
Porque si no, entonces te mando pa’l carajo carbón gusano hijo de puta
serramos libre pronto Viva La Revolución Que viva la revolución!
-Once again, Immortal Technique
I quote too much