Educating Hip-Hop

The Future is Grim for Young Black Men and Americans a like.

by Queon L. Martin

How far are you willing to go? A question I ask myself everyday, as I work tirelessly towards helping youth (especially young black men) recognize the world outside of hip-hop. Now I may not be able to drop a dope rhyme like the greatest rapper of all time B.I.G., but I can paint a picture like Norman Mailer to get my point across.

"I have freed a thousand slaves, I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." -- Harriet Tubman

The direction where hip-hop is heading will become fatal for young black men in America to succeed, unless we educate disenfranchised youth in the hip-hop culture with information that will improve their way of life. This blog will uncover two major issues that have crippled young black men and Americans in general. The PRISON SYSTEM and CENTRAL BANKING better know as the FEDERAL RESERVES.

"None are more hopelessly enslaved, than those who falsely believe they are free."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates there are about 5 million black men in America between the ages of 20 and 39 losing ground in mainstream American society, despite advances made by black women, presumably part of the same socioeconomic experience. Black men 16 and older are arrested each year, creating police records that hinder future job prospects. Black men may be more likely than whites or Latinos to be arrested on drug charges and subsequently released for lack of evidence.

The Pew report found that judges who would likely opt for community-based corrections programs such as fines, restitution; home detention, probation, electronic monitoring, and drug diversion programs don't because these options are scare. The programs are poorly funded and operated, or are non-existent. For the first time in history more than one in every 100 adults in America are in jail or prison. Black males still make up more than half of America's prison inmates. They are four times more likely than whites and twice as likely as Hispanics to be jailed.

As prison populations expand, costs to states are on the rise. Last year alone, states spent more than $49 billion on corrections, up from $11 billion 20 years before. However, the national recidivism rate remains virtually unchanged, with about half of released inmates returning to jail or prison within three years. And while violent criminals and other serious offenders account for some of the growth, many inmates are low-level offenders or people who have violated the terms of their probation or parole.

Putting thousands of black men behind bars for mostly non-violent offenses has had staggering consequences. It has wreaked massive social and political havoc on families and communities. It has been the single biggest reason for the bloat in federal and state spending on prison construction, maintenance, and the escalation in the number of prosecutors needed to handle the continuing flood of criminal cases. This is the modern day slave drive... Capitol and Cattle.

HOW DID WE GET HERE?

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see"
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

There is something behind the thrown, greater than the king himself.

-- Sir William Pitt, House of Lords 1770

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt. --President John Adams 1797-1801

The bold efforts the present bank had made to control the government... Are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.
-- President Andrew Jackson 1829-1837

Slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers... -- The Hazard Circular, July 1862


J.D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Paul Warburg and Baron Rothschild sought after legislators to put together a central banking system. A Congressional investigation was put together and led by Senator Nelson Aldrich who had ties with the banking cartel and later married into the Rockefeller family, recommended that central banking be put in place to prevent New York's banks from going under. In 1910 the federal reserve act bill was put together not by law makers but by bank owners. And in 1913 the bill was signed by newly elected President Woodrow Wilson already agreed to sign the act. His presidential campaign was heavily sponsored by the bankers.

The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson.
-- President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933

For ever dollar that is printed, there is an interest rate attached to it. We then have to borrow more money to pay for the interest rate which puts us in deeper dept. Which keeps us enslaved to the Federal Reserves. I'm here to educate the minds of youth with information that is essential to improving their way of life. And I ask those who share the same passion as I, to bring awareness to the system that has caused us all to fail. As Lawrence Fishburne said in School Daze, WAKE UP!