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Social Justice
September 14th, 2007
I’m proud to be apart of the contingent in the Bloggosphere, acting to make a difference.
With the mainstream media stuck on the latest antics of Hollywood bimbos, and rehashing the same five stories over and over again all day; to the exclusion of all else going on in the world; the common folk media of the internet is standing up to fill in some of the void.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice every where” M.L. King, Jr.
Apparently the only injustice the American media can seem to cover is some dead dogs. Missing black people, the mass genocide slaughtering of humans, or the return of Jim Crow, are stories that need not apply.
As the saying goes, “if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything”. So what do you stand for?
Here at BlackPerspective.net we’ve kept many issues of social justice and humanitarianism in the fore:
Fighting the AIDs Epidemic
The Darfur Genocide
Jena Six
Stepha Henry
Genarlow Wilson
Kenneth Foster
& Dunbar Village
Not to mention general racism in this country
Talib Kweli says on the the 1999 Reflections Eternal album that “if one of us ain’t free then we’re all to blame”.
We’ll one in particular who is not free, is Mychael Bell in Jena Louisiana. Here in Nashville we had a rally last night to raise money for more busses to take to Louisiana on September 20th for his sentencing. Around 300 people showed up, and with donations from $75 to $1,000 dollars; including $1,000 from former Titans Running Back Eddie George; we went from 2 busses before the rally started, to 4 four so that we can take people for free.
Some others who aren’t free that we must raise our voices for now, and not later, for as Malcolm X said in “The Ballet or the Bullet”, “it’s already too late” – are the victims of systematic terrorism and rape in Darfur.
The Jews and others were massacred in Europe in the 1940s, and we said “Never Again”. We watched it happen again in Rwanda in 1994, went to see the movie Hotel Rwanda, exclaimed how awful it was and how the world failed to intervene. Then, we first allowed Sudan just a few years later to slaughter people in the South, now they’ve turned to an unbelievable campaign of brutality in the Eastern Providence of Darfur where hundreds of thousands have been murdered. While this has transpired for nearly five years, we’ve done little more than give lip service in stopping it. Our government does little to nothing, because the American people don’t demand that they do something; so “we’re all to blame”; not just George Bush.
There are many other specific cause out there demanding social justice. I hope you’ll stand for something!
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