Where Is The Raised Voice Of Black

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.

Each Time We Arrive At A New Level In Extricating Ourselves From Economic, Social, Spiritual Domination, We Have A Moment When We Dance In The World Of These New Experiences, Only To Find That The Music Soon Stops, The Dance Ends, And We're Struggling Once Again To Save Ourselves From Being Thrown Back Into Those Conditions.

Since I Have Escaped The Harshness Of The Economic Bounds Of Poverty, I Have Stayed Very Connected To It Spiritually. I Reside And Live And Go And Socialize And Exist Among Those Who Suffer Daily From The Relationship That They Have To Poverty, Black Men And Women Who Are Incarcerated. Actually, All People Who Are Incarcerated, Not Just Black.

Children Who Have Lost Parents To Hiv/aids Are Not Only Just As Deserving Of An Education As Any Other Children, But They May Need That Education Even More. Being Part Of A School Environment Will Prepare Them For The Future, While Helping To Remove The Stigma And Discrimination Unfortunately Associated With Aids.

No Matter What The Greatest Tyrant In The World, The Greatest Terrorist In The World, George W. Bush Says, We're Here To Tell You: Not Hundreds, Not Thousands, But Millions Of The American People ... Support Your Revolution.