I'm Still Dreaming


I was just watching the news and I saw Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane being released from jail wearing a "I had a Dream" t shirt and I just watch a whole special on MLK on PBS and I wondered what would Mr. King say today about his dream. In the speech he said, quote, "So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.", unquote. Have we cashed the check yet? Well as far as monetary gain and financial status, man I'm high on dro, right now and as far as societal staus, are we still holding a "bad check" Well let's look at the court system with our black celebrities and heroes, could we have had a fair chance back in MLK day to beat murder raps, gun raps, or killing a white woman rap, not if we didn't have rap muisc. Would MLK be chilling with some our rappers today with prolific thoughts such as Pac or Kanye West or would he be a hater as we call anyone who calls our character to question. I wonder if Gucci dreamed on Rice Street about freedom or did he dream about his album sales and his royalty dough that was due to him because even though he didn't sell like Jeezy, on an independant level, Gucci went "Ghetto Platinum". Now will he use his "freedom at last" to be a better man or will he "ball till he fall again" We have come a long way as far as having money, cars, houses and living like the white man but we have lost our spirit in exchange for that sucess. Our villages don't raise children anymore with thoughts of being teachers or lawyers, it's easy to "get rich or die trying", hell, our villages don't raise children at all, the dope boys in the trap raise them. Mlk wanted our people to , quote, "Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.", unquote. Well here we are back in the "Dirty", The New South with fat booty white girls and my folks who live in Buckhead, with white folks on Bankhead looking for heroin in the Bluff. But that's another story, but have we overcome? I can hear Lil Jon's voice right now saying, YEAH!! But for real have we overcome ourselves or have we undone ourselves. I hate to be a party pooper but like my namesake, I stand for rebellion and I don't care who gets mad. This my mic and my stage and I'm having a dream right now!!!!

Nat Turner