WE? what WE?

Ozy Merrique:

"Black America..from the Blues to Jazz, to R&B to funk to the roots of Hip Hop and more....yuh had a good run....But you are now relieved from being the mouthpiece and main cultural touchstone of the diaspora...by unanimous vote...you are now summarily dismissed....collect your things and leave..(and carry some of dem dancehall asstist with you too!)...thank you for you service....and that is all"

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  Maven Huggins: who taking up the mantle. we in deep deep beyond hell shit if is anywhere else. let it just be a vacuum then/ cause no where else...i dont want to hear from the caribbean parochial plantation. nor the mass of states that have yet to fix their realities or relationships. we are so phkd.

  
  
• Ozy Merrique: sometimes you have no choice to say anybody but...

  
  
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  Maven Huggins: haha. wow. i think that is what we do here in trinidad? every five years? between the same group of people, split into two, as a masquerade...cause all a dem is jumpin up in one band. and that is no metaphor!

  
  
• Ozy Merrique maybe one should be replaced by all the rest?....I mean ...if is Hitler...is about less worse

  
  
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  n i know what you are saying. i know defacto there was that rep, but truth be told, our existences are too different, our connectedness too separated, our allegiances and lack there of to filled with enmity ...that was never true. I have lived in all three areas, and the blind spots of each to the other two is amazing
  too much bias, colonialism and divide and rule played its role.
  
  americans. black americans not even talking for the whole range of their existence...far less for outside their borders. when jesse jackson spoke you think he had in mind those negroes in the black belt south with outhouses? when he in dc, think he talking about the negroes in baltimore.
  the more i think about it now, when these leaders emerge and show up, much of what they say is a or of a nebulous entity, identity, a vagueness that applies to all and doesnt for lack of its meat to every day living to the least. and what is deep that is largely a spin on what cornel's west's beef is with obama.
  
  it gets me to a larger insight. can i really talk for you if my existence and experience is vast lives away from yours? it almost seems like unless i am giving you money and introducing you into my corridors, as the one with the most access, power and resources, for you to choose to do as you will with the same benefits, in your arena, it is all just bullshit perhaps
  
  woosah.
  did you really just transport me there?!