A WALK AROUND THE CORNER...

Today was Chris' birthday

a really close friend of mine

who I've known since I was about 5 years old

it is always refreshing to see him

as he had a big influence on me growing up

and has always put me on revolutionary thought

he was the first person to put me on Che

and I wasn't even out of High School

he was always passing me books

like, "Yo...you gotta read this!!!"

wise dude who walks rigid lines in all atmospheres

grew up kicking it with Dead Prez

while working with international scientists and professors

at the American Museum of Natural History

a rare combination of street and intellect

we went for a walk around the neighborhood

and spoke about his homeland of Guyana

and how he got family in the UK

a dark skinned brother from Guyana

with relatives in the UK???

ignorantly, I couldn't understand

how he had relatives spread out like that

until he told me how his ancestors were colonized by Britain

and that's why his parents have such a strong hint

of Patwa in their accent

because the British used slaves from the Caribbean

to produce cheap labor and pretty much...

the same story that goes for all people of color

the enslaved mated with the colonized

the story of our past

we got into even deeper conversations how the FBI

uses drug money to fund their operations

how they let you sell as much as you can

let you make as much as you want

until they're ready to raid your crib

when they do...

they basically take that money

and put it right back into operations

a crazy circle of evil cycles

most of we spoke about:

from why he believes Malcom X really died

to real estate subsidization

has left me trying to visualize that next step

that next stage of consciousness

understanding that we are all currently functioning

on different levels

of that same consciousness

hoping a future near will provide