Just back from a weekend of partying and bullshit in South Beach. I allowed myself a weekend off from the Revolution or so I thought. Justified it to myself with some rationalization of maintaining social relations and managed to not have a crisis of conscience until Sunday-- like how could I afford to take a weekend off my Job while my people still starving? It came in the form of KP pressing me, "how can you say Fuck Obama??" At this point, I knew the partying was over and it was me the Revolutionary-- the extremist versus the whole crew. I knew it would be exhausting and tried to calculate whether it would be worth the effort trying to school these fools. Then I remembered, Revolutionaries don't get days off and went to work.
"What do you think about Obama not bowing to the Queen? that was Revolutionary, wasn't it? noone ever did that before." Hell no. that wasn't Revolutionary and I couldn't care less whether he bow to the Queen or not. What difference does that make? "You keep talking about us being oppressed by the system, what system?" Capitalism. "What else is there" ummm..you ever heard of socialism? "You like Cuba so much, you ever been there? then you can't really know what's going on there" Well I wasn't born until '82 but I know some shit happened before then, and how you know if Obama bow to the Queen or not? Were you in London? "You just hate Obama cuz you hate Black People" Nah I love my People, but I know everyone who look like me aint for me and we gotta be able to make those distinctions.
And so it went for an hour or two until I think I just wore them out and exhausted them. By the end, I don't think I was any less of crazy mofo for not wanting to fuck with Obama and I still questioned was it worth the energy. But a Revolutionary cant judge his work without having a long term view and if all they got out of it is that there is an alternative to capitalism, then I at least made a dent in their consciousness. I gotta keep reminding myself, The Revolution will not be televised.
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i bet you and huey freeman would be good friends.
get rid of this word verification bullshit when i try to post comments man. i'm LAZY.
i heard Obama is your president.
i like your arguing style. that's how i win too. wear em down, sun. just ask sherm.
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