Posted on 09/09/2009 10:55:23 PM PDT by kristinn
GET HIM OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The hip-hop culture of Bethlehem, PA?
Imagine if they’d tried to do this on the 8 year anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Politicians would have been run out of office. They want the kids to forget. When the generation comes up that forgets...forgets a free America, forgets 9/11 or never knew it in the first place, then they win.
I’ve kept my copy of that day’s paper as a souvenir.
http://thecityfix.com/sustainable-cities-and-hip-hop-creating-a-new-urban-beat/
“Yesterday, on his 48th birthday, Pres. Barack Obama announced the Green the Block campaign “to ensure that low-income communities and communities of color have the resources and platforms needed to access the benefits and opportunities of the growing clean-energy economy.”
Launched in partnership with Green For All and the Hip Hop Caucus, the nationwide campaign will rely on a coalition of organizations to educate and mobilize young people about how to take action on things like installing energy-efficient light bulbs in neighborhood homes, planting a community garden, and writing letters to local officials asking them to promote the use of more fuel efficient vehicles.
Green the Block is just one example of how youth culture — and in particular, hip hop culture — is transforming the way we advocate for sustainable cities and transportation. And it’s not just in the United States.
Take, for example, the events planned for the World Urban Forum in 2006, where artists like Curtis Clearsky and other UN-HABITAT Messengers of Truth performed at the Global Hip-Hip Mainstage to inspire young people to change their cities for the better. The United Nations recognized that “Hip-Hop is more than a genre of music or dance. It is a social movement.”
It’s about mainstreaming the idea of safer, cleaner and more accessible urban communities, and you can see it happening through what’s commonly referred to as “the five elements:” emceeing, breakdancing, deejaying, beat boxing, and the art of graffiti. Here’s a few examples from around the world:
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Obama, himself, is the quintessential emcee for America’s youth, supporting the power of hip hop as a vehicle for change:
“I love the art of hip hop; I don’t always love the message of hip hop. The thing about hip hop today is that it’s smart, it’s insightful, the way that [rappers] can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable. A lot of these kids are not going to be reading The New York Times. The question, then, is, what’s the content? What’s the message?
Art can’t just be a rear view mirror; it should also have a headlight out there pointing to where we need to go.”
Barack “B-Rock” Obama meets with Ludacris. Photo via Snicka.
His decision about “where to go” was made clear through the establishment of the White House Office of Urban Affairs, which proves his commitment to “promote strong cities as the backbone of regional growth.” This summer, the Office kicked off a National Conversation on the Future of America’s Cities and Metropolitan Areas, essentially convening a whole community of urban policy “emcees” who will be talking about “ways in which Washington can be a partner and catalyst for community-based solutions, instead of a bureaucratic obstacle.”
Another public figure who comes to mind as a hip-hop-inspired voice for a new generation of sustainable city advocates is Majora Carter, who wrote a $1.25 million federal transportation planning grant to conduct a feasibility study for the South Bronx Greenway. As an African-American woman who grew up in the South Bronx, Carter understands that some people think cleaning and greening a city will “kill” hip hop because it takes away from the suffering, which often fuels the art form. But, she said in an interview, “if we have industry that employs people and communities — that are beautiful — then hip-hop can just flourish. It will just be something new. It will be happy hip-hop!” Hence her motto: “Green the Ghetto!”, which is also the title of her organization’s blog, which recently posted this pic...”
http://www.hiphopcaucus.org/issues
For anyone who hasn’t checked out their “issues” page, it’s “enlightening”.
For example: End policing of school hallways, Reward the creation of good jobs in the United States, Stop government funded abstinence only sex education programs, Single Payer Medicare for All, Expand the supply of federally assisted low income housing units and/or federal resources for affordable housing and/or access to housing by extremely low income people,Stop Big Media Consolidation and promote diverse, local ownership and a free press, Return the many roles and responsibilities to the State Department that were transferred to the Department of Defense under the Bush Administration, Rights for New Americans (illegals),Voting Rights and Election Reform Voting Rights and Election Reform (among their demands) Elect the President with the National Popular Vote......
And remember that doozie when somebody one asked the Kenyan what he thought about V-J End of World War II VICTORY Day celebrations. He said he was not too much for it, because he was uncomfortable with the notion of absolute victory and unconditional surrender by our enemies.
I would start fanning out through all the VFW and American Legion halls right away and spread the word on this buzzard, over the next few days. Of course, those guys are probably already solidly opposed to the Imposter.
Yes, they want children to forget.
It is so deliberate you cannot even make this up.
One thing I WILL say is this is a PUBLIC RELATIONS DISASTER WAITING to happen, and the whole thing could (figuratively here) blow up in their faces. Republican Party? Can we hear from you? Rudy Giuliani? Widow of Todd Beamer? Many others from that day, attacked, but living?
I hear people sayin’. We Don’t need this war.
I say there’s some things worth fightin’ for.
What about our freedom, and this piece of ground?
We didn’t get to keep ‘em by backin’ down.
They say we don’t realize the mess we’re gettin’ in
Before you start preachin’ let me ask you this my friend.
Chorus
Have you forgotten, how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten, when those towers fell
We had neighbors still inside goin through a livin hell
And you say we shouldn’t worry bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
You took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it’s too disturbin for you and me
It’ll just breed anger is what the experts say
If it was up to me I’d show it everyday
Some say this country just out lookin’ for a fight
Well after 9/11 man I’d have to say right.
Chorus
Have you forgotten, how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell
We had neighbors still inside goin’ through a livin’ hell
And we vow to get the ones behind Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
I’ve been there with the soldiers
Who’ve gone away to war
you can bet they remember just what they’re fightin’ for
Have you forgotten
All the people killed
Yes some went down like heroes
In that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten
About our Pentagon
All the loved ones that we lost
And those left to carry on
Don’t you tell me not to worry ‘bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?!
Green The Block..how absolutely disgusting.
Damn right on the impeachment.
Despicable
I have many papers from that day too...
I just sent the whole thread to Glenn Beck.
This is total insanity going on.
any of this crap planned in NYC? Do they dare?
This is total insanity going on.
Thank you, we all need to send this to him. He is the only one except for Rush who will expose this.
Imagine if they’d tried to do this on the 8 year anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Sadly you are right, but this isn’t the
same America. The foundation has been
eaten away by termites.
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