Peace Peace, 

So for those that don't stay up on world events there is some real serious stuff going on right now. For most of our lives there has been constant tension between Israel and Palestine, the saying " peace in the Middle East" is known to all and yet few have even the slightest knowledge of what is happening, let alone why. This is not meant to be a history lesson so I will not get into all of that. No, this is meant to be a rallying cry. To all my fellow hip hop heads, you know better than most what it is like to be thought of as less, as the other. That is the spirit  Hip Hop was born from. I urge us all to return to that spirit, and see our brothers and sisters, our fellow human beings being murdered in Gaza. Let us see them, and give them a voice here in the United States. There was so much excitement around change no more than 2 months ago; let us not fail now to put that energy to work! If we fail to stand up to this abuse for whatever reason, it will not be long before we are suffering the same atrocities. The time has come to put up or shut up. The world does not care about what happened in November if we as a country continue to allow human rights violations. There is no excuse for the events that have taken place and we have heard all the rationalizations, the excuses. We have seen the failure of major media to report honestly on the conflict. It is time now to see past all of this, to see reality for what it is and say no! Now is the time to for real change and there is no better time then now to say Stop We are Palestine!