I love the freedom of speech. Exercise your freedom of speech today. (Don't let it sit on the couch and waste away pigging out on chips!)
Also to those who question if tents are really needed for protesting I say this… There is no time limit for how long we are allowed to peaceably assemble and our freedom of speech. Denying people their basic needs, including shelter, clothing, food and water is thus denying their rights.
I recently watched a documentary on Hip Hop named "Beef". What started out as a competition between entertainers trying to prove who was the best, escalated to the point they were killing each other. Character assassination became actual assassination. Asinine? Perhaps. I has certainly surpassed the point of insanity.
You would think after the premature deaths of 2Pac and Biggie Smalls, hip hop artists would've chilled the fuck out. But instead some, like 50 Cent, instigated "beefs" with artists to gain popularity, and it worked. You would think after being shot nine times (once in the face) he would've chilled, but no. His beefs continued, and his popularity grew.
It was a disturbing sort of documentary that indicates a culture of violence over little more than pride and oneupmanship. A culture now revered by many. Foreign to me and messed up, and yet as 50 Cent put it, it was either do what he could to make it or go back to the streets. The title of his first hit album says it all: "Get Rich or Die Tryin'". Can you blame him? Then again, when does it end?
I just know today is going to be a bad day at work. Actually the way it has gone so far, the whole week is shaping up to be bad. So here is some DMX to psych me up for it.