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Born & raised in Newark (Brick City) New Jersey. I'm a Jersey-Ma to the heart! Mixed w/ Jamaican & Haitian so I love that Caribbean music - it's in My blood. **HELL NO I DON'T SMOKE GANJA!!!!** If were possible I would marry MUSIC (literally)! I'm an insomniac who can't go to sleep w/o it! I believe that I'm from another time - it's as if I've been here before. *I'm sassy by nature but humble nonetheless but DO NOT make attempts to get on here & come @ Me side-ways b/c I'll tear ya a new 1!!!!! *When The O'Jays made that song "I love Music" they were talking about Me! *BTW I don't mean to trick anyone - I wasn't born in 1902... I just feel that I was here WAY before My time! **NOT TO WORRY I'M OF AGE!**
>>>>FOR THOSE OF YOU BRAINWASHED BLACKS OR ANY OTHER RACE THAT ARE THINKING ABOUT SENDING ME ANY FRIEND REQUESTS WHEN I GO TO YOUR PAGE TO SEE WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT & I SEE YOU RECITING THE 'N-SLUR' IN EVERY SENTENCE THEN JUST FUCK OFF & DON'T EVEN SPEAK TO ME B/C YOU ARE BRAINWASHED!!!! I WILL JUST REFUSE YOUR REQUEST B/C I DESPISE IGNORANCE JUST SO YOU KNOW!!!!
\ / As for My poetry... I will post more than a few from time to time but I better not see them posted else where w/o The Gem's permission!!!! / \
((((TO MY IMEEM FAM... IF YOU SEE ANY PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEOS OR IMAGES ON THIS SITE FLAG THOSE BASTARDS BY REPORTING THEM!!!!)))) IMEEM IS FOR OUR MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT IT ISN'T ANY PERVERT'S PLAYGROUND!!!!
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((Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.)) -Mark Twain
*A wise person makes their own decisions a foolish one obeys public opinion!*
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Those who are targeted as the victims of the Prison Industrial Complex are mainly people of color. They are Native Americans, Africans, Asians, and Latinos, who came from societies where there were no prisons and where prisons were an unknown concept. Prisons were introduced in Africa, the Americas and Asia as by-products of slavery and colonialism, and they continue to be instruments of exploitation and oppression. In the heart of the imperialist empires, prisons also meant oppression. The prisons of Europe were so overcrowded that European prisoners were sent to the colonies and encouraged to enslave and colonize other peoples. In England, during the so-called period of expansion, there were not only debtor's prisons for the poor, but also more than 200 crimes that were punishable by death. During the French revolution, the storming and destruction of the Bastille Prison, became a symbol for liberation all over Europe. And today, those of us whose ancestors were imprisoned in Slave forts like Elmina, or Goree Island, now find ourselves imprisoned in places like Elmira, Rikers Island, Terminal Island, Marion or Florence. The prisons that are being constructed In the United States today are more sophisticated than concentration camps like Auschwitz or Dachau, but they serve the same purpose. The profits from prison industries, and prison slave labor is surpassing the super exploitation levels of forced labor in Nazi concentration camps.
The Prison Industrial Complex is not only a mechanism to convert Public tax money into profits for private corporations, it is an essential element of modern neo-liberal capitalism. It serves two purposes. One to neutralize and contain huge segments of potentially rebellious sectors of the population, and two, to sustain a system of super exploitation, where mainly black and Latino captives are imprisoned in white rural, overseer communities. People of color are easy targets. Our criminalization and villianization is an Amerikkkan tradition. The image of the dirty-lazy-shiftless- savage - backwards- good for nothing - darkies has been the underpinning of the racist culture and ideology, that dominates U.S. politics. One of the basic tenets of that revolution was that only rich, white men have the right to have a revolution, anyone else who struggles for one is a terrorist or a subversive. The truth of the matter is that oppressed people have, and have always had a great deal more to be outraged about than taxation without representation.
music
*REGGAE, OLD SCHOOL R&B, JAZZ/ACID JAZZ, CLASSICAL, OLD SCHOOL HIP HOP..............BOOKS: THINGS FALL APART, BLACK MEN BUILT THE CAPITAL, FRIENDS & LOVERS, GEORGE JACKSON: BLOOD IN MY EYE, *BLACK VOICES* (book of POETRY), THE COLOR PURPLE, FALSE ACCUSATIONS ETC...
artists
===============================**I DON'T SUPPORT SELL-OUTS YA DIG!!!!**PUT SOME BENNY LATIMORE ON HERE WOULD YA!!!!===============================
movies
TAR, THE ELEPHANT MAN, *NEW JERSEY DRIVE, *FLY BY NIGHT, THE KEEPER, *COFFY*, *FOXY BROWN, ((((Zeitgeist)))) the real deal about money & the sign of the times (a MUST SEE), *PANTHER*, **W.I.D.O.W.S**, THE LORETTA CLAIBORNE STORY, *GRACE JONES: ONE MAN SHOW/STATE of GRACE*, *VAMP, THE FIVE HEARTBEATS, THE FABRIC of a MAN, **SCARED STRAIGHT"**, SCARFACE, the KING of NEW YORK, GIRLS TOWN '96, STREET FIGHT, BLUE HILL AVENUE, *PATH TO PARADISE* (the truth about 9/11), *THE MIRACLE MAKER: THE STORY OF JESUS*, RUTH: TESTAMENT, JOSEPH: TESTAMENT, *MAD MONEY, WHAT'S the WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN?, DANCEHALL QUEEN, OUR SONG, the ART of 16 BARS (FOR HIP HOP JUNKIES *ONLY), ZEBRAHEAD, WOMAN THOU ART LOOSED, THE OTHER BROTHER, TRAIN RIDE, JUST ANOTHER GIRL on the I.R.T, *FEAR of a BLACK HAT, CB4, PHAT GIRLZ, SHOTTAS, ENOUGH, PASTOR JONES, SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT, ANTWONE FISHER, MACARTHUR PARK, SCHOOL DAZE, TRANSFORMERS 1&2, AVP, POOTIE TANG, BE KIND REWIND, TANK GIRL, BAR GIRLS, *DEF by TEMPTATION, ABBY, TRILOQUIST, THE GRANNY, the EX, FREEWAY 2, KISS the GIRLS, DROP DEAD FRED, DICK TRACEY, 5 DEADLY VENOMS, KID w/ the GOLDEN ARMS, PINERO ETC...
tv shows
MARTIN (WHEN IT WAS ON AIR), LIVING SINGLE, JEOPARDY, KING of QUEENS, MST3K, MO'NIQUE'S F.A.T CHANCE 1&2, THE L WORD, FROM G's to GENTS, the BOONDOCKS, SUPERNATURAL, BULLY BEATDOWN (LMBBAO), UC UNDERCOVER, LAW & ORDER (not the 1 w/ ice-t), ETC...
actors
*RON BRICE, *MICHAEL WRIGHT*, *CLARENCE WILLIAMS III*, *MC LYTE*, GRACE JONES, *PAM GRIER, *QUEEN LATIFAH, *NOVELLA NELSON*, N'BUSHE WRIGHT, *AUNJANUE ELLIS, *JOIE LEE, BRUKLIN HARRIS, *GINA RAVARRA (Luv Tale), REGINA KING, CICELY TYSON, LORETTA DEVINE, *BASIL WALLACE, PAUL CAMPBELL, THOMAS JEFFERSON BYRD, DENZEL W., LAURENCE FISHBURNE, BERNIE MAC (RIP), *VING RHAMES, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, NELL CARTER (RIP), BEBE DRAKE, JAMIE FOXX, DARRIN DEWITT HENSON, ROSCOE BROWNE (RIP), MARIA CELEDONIO, KIMBERLY ELISE, 2PAC, CHRISTIAN PAYTON, DEREK LUKE, KEVIN HOOKS, LEON, CHARLES MALIK WHITFIELD, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, *KEVIN CORRIGAN, PACINO, CHRIS FARLEY (RIP), JACK BLACK, ROB SCHNEIDER, NATASHA LYONNE, LILI TAYLOR, WILLIAM FORSYTHE, ETC...
