P.E.A.C.E. everyone. I have new spoken word tracks that are up right now for your listening pleasure. I go from a variety of topics with my poetry, from sex to war to the abstract.

MySpace.com - Poetic Shotta - RICHMOND, Texas - A'cappella / Lyrical / Freestyle - www.myspace.com/poeticshotta

Check them out and let me know if you are feeling them, aight?

Criticism is most definitely appreciated!

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P.E.A.C.E.

- Poetic Shotta

The Black Liberation Struggle against Imperialism

So it is, the Black Liberation dialectic has become blurred as the international struggle for survival in a hostile capitalist world economy take precedence. Aside from opportunists diluting the line, ambiguities within our own victories against Imperialism have left the national democratic struggle in jeopardy.

South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique have all become tinderboxes. Imperialism has sworn to destabilize these states. Zimbabwe has been singled out for special demonization, with black-skinned critics leading the charge. Yet, while we uphold the right to criticize, Zimbabwe’s critics consistently depart from rendering concrete support for the Zimbabwean...

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Bless it family I greet you with love, peace, happiness, freedom, justice and equality of all things in existence. This morning I thought about what quote or thought I could send to you today. There are many of us in the world today whom are victims of our own choices. We are individually given choices and it is up to us to be self wise to the situations. Sometimes we get caught up in our own emotions and we do not do what we know we should. With that in mind we alter our destiny. Justice is a equal balance of polar energies. There is no such thing as what we believe the truth is, however there is a such thing as truth in its raw form. I am not a pro or a saint but I am striving to stay on task. It is challenging....

Propaganda Putsch Posing as Anti-Xenophobia

The Black Commentator on June 26 featured three cartoons depicting the violence in South Africa, the first accompanied by a brief text on the struggle inside Zimbabwe. A startling aspect about each of the three cartoons was their anti-African depictions. Each cartoon seemed to criticize the attacks by South Africans against workers from neighboring countries.

The cartoons couched this depiction in a way which held all South Africans responsible for the attacks. As if South Africans were united in reactionary consensus against the influx of workers from Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Swaziland.

However, those of us who participated in anti-apartheid...