SOUNDS: Bahamadia, Mos Def, Brand Nubian, Medusa, Fela Kuti, Manu Chao, Coltrane, Mingus, Beethoven, Ozomatli, Moby, dj unDfind- WORDS: Kahlil Gibran, Arundhati Roy, George Jackson, Angela Davis, Rudolfo Anaya, Suheir Hammad, Amir Sulaiman, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Tariq Ali, Malcolm X, and everyone else working to rewrite this reality.
Made in America @ Mighty Mic Concert
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My name was born before I was; attached to my flesh on September 2, 1975 at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. Outside of the delivery room, snow had yet to fall on Alaskan autumn ground. Inside, a Canadian French woman cradled her newborn son, and then passed him onto the gentle mechanic hands of my Mexican father. I wonder: did they know by the way I took my first breath that their child would group up to be poet?
Did cries for mother’s milk mimic those I would make for justice?
Did I try to break the bars on my crib like a future prison abolitionist?
Did I throw temper tantrums like Molotov; shake rattle like perception?
Did they know their son would stand before members of the United Nations travel across continents, stand before HBO and international audiences as an indigenous citizen, pro justice/ feminist/ Palestinian descendant of aboriginal immigrants? Or did they simply say: “Welcome to the world Mark Gonzales, it is yours' to make of it what you will” Welcome to a glimpse into my world; no passports are needed. Just an open mind and an open mic, and maybe some dim lights.
WASSUP MISTA OH GEE!! HOW U BEEN SINCE WE LAST KICKED IT AT GRADUATION!!! I DONT THINK I COULDVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU!! WASSUP WITH YOU!! HOWS EVERYTHING GOING!! WHEN'S UR NEXT PERFORMANCE!! ITS BEEN A WHILE SINCE I HEARD ONE OF UR PIECES!! WELL IM PRETTY SURE UR BUSY BUT HIT ME UP WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE!!
Hello, i just was wanting you to know stay up during this huge loss in the music industry we lost a soldier, a king, friend.... RIP MICHAEL JACKSON...... ONE LOVE.... PEACE AND LOVE J
hi u! hey are you teaching still (or whatever you are working on) i have 3 fresh (not touched) copies of "Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision" by Barbara Ransby pub The Univ of No Carolina Press 2003
if you want to take a look and you like-they're yours -missy
I just been gettin into ICDC college. Stuff like that. What about you? I havent been to them Mic Sessions in a while. How is that going? I cant make it but whenever I can I'll go and do my thang for real on the mic. I dont like to go much because I dont go often.I dont want to disrespect the group like that. And for me to go last is like All eyez on me. But I dont give a fuck no more. Next time I go...I'll do my thang Fo Sho! Thanks for hittin me up Maestro! Keep doing what you do best y que vayas con DIOS.
peace brother!! thank you for doing all that you do for the voiceless in the world. can't wait to hear of new projects by you soon. much respect, stay strong.
hey you...on myface or spacebook..we 'friens' :)of da rEVOLUCION!~ mucho amor y RAZpects companero..hopefully soon we can represent RAZA from here to GAZA juntos~ tiahui one, valEYErie guerrillaqueenz.com
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