(*Last disclaimer...I swear I'ma Blog more)....So I'm fresh off a trip "abroad", Europe n Africa to be exact, and thanks to BBC & CNN World News, Al Jazeera and the many other satellite broadcasted international points of view...I was able to keep abreast with the downward spiral of the AMERICAN DREAM. Thanks to Obama.....a sobering spark of "HOPE" has been injected into the main vain of Lady Liberty...or at least a whole bunch of foreign backed legal tender...sounds like hope......but the majority of us residing in the "Land of the Free" find ourselves at pivotal crossroad.Without gettin into allllll thaaaat...we know shitz bad...n prolly gettin worse...from financials to real estate to environmental to moral...it's hell in a Hermes Handbag...unless!...Now I'm not tryna sell emotional Amway, but "only we can save we"...and since when have the "PEOPLE" really looked for the GOVERN U MEN(t) to save our asses???...whenever there's a drought, that's when the HUSTLE comes out...get it how you live...but most of all...spread the LOVE.
One of the most important jewels I picked up from the Ethiopian portion of my trip (besides a piss yellow African gold link) was the genuine sense of mutual respect and struggle. Don't get me wrong, the same demons haunt their society as the U.S....and in many cases...a lot worse,
but the overall sense of....Yo...it is what it is...let's make it happen...if we ain't got shit...let's get it...eat off the same plate...I gotcha back...my home is yours and so on...that permeates their everyday lives....either never TRULY existed in AMERICA or must be manifest if this new "HOPE" is to save thangs.
Perhaps most of all was the sense of HUSTLE...erthang from clothes to cosmetics to water to tissue to goats to grain and whatever you need in between. In the U.S...when someone talks about HUSTLIN'...9 times outta 10 they're talkin bout sellin
drugs. Let's be clear...drugs sell themselves...people wanna get high....you just gotta "have" drugs and accept money for trade...oh and don't get caught. But I'm talkin bout that real live hand to hand...take it to the streets...HUSTLE...I seen a cat take a roll of toilet paper, make a carton of neatly packed bundles n get money from passers by...or a man with a scale stand there n get people to pay for weigh ins...besides countless other clean, legal HUSTLES...it don't and won't stop....the streets is watchin and waitin...make your stimulus plan......YES U CAN.
