I Don't Think That (u.s. President) George

Fascism Is Fascism. Terrorism Is Terrorism. Oppression Is Oppression.

I Don't Know What America Has Really Learned. We Are Too Quick To Do What's Expedient On Behalf Of Our Culture Of Greed And Hedonism. We're Quite Prepared To Go To Conditions Of Tyranny In Order To Sustain That Culture, And We Do It In The Name Of Democracy, When Nothing Could Be More Undemocratic. We Do It In The Name Of Saving The Values Of Our Society, When The Way We Behave Corrupts Those Values. We Do It In The Name Of God In Whom We Believe, When In Fact We Have Corrupted Our Own Vision Of The Christian Journey.

Where Is The Raised Voice Of Black America? Why Are We Mute?

My Formative Years, Until I Was 12, Was All Shaped By Jamaican Culture, By That Economy, By The People In My Family, Who Are Agriculturalists, Who Were Plantation Workers, Who Harvested Those Crops And Took Them Down To The Boats Run By The United Food Company, To Load Those Ships At Night, Hence All The Songs That I Sing That Come From That Environment.

In My Earliest Of Years, My Mother Was A Huge Force In My Life. She Was For All Intents And Purposes, A Single Parent. My Father Had Abandoned Us. He Was An Alcoholic And A Physical Abuser. My Mother Lived Through That Tyranny And Made Her Living As A Domestic Worker. She Was Uneducated But She Brought High Principles And Decent Values Into Our Existence, And She Set Lofty Goals For Herself And For Her Children. We Were Forever Inspired By Her Strength And By Her Resistance To Racism And To Fascism.