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Tuesday, February 28, 2006




...on the road to Budapest, Hungary.....this is really fascinating.....this area (former Yugoslavia) was a BITTER war zone less than ten years ago.....some people we have met fought in the war (Serbia against Croatia) including our driver Eddie [pictured above]-who,consequently gave me dapp like a brotha from Brooklyn, loves hip hop, and dated one of the 30 black people in Croatia.....30 black folks in the WHOLE country. Eddie fought in the war for 2 years and when asked what it was like, he said, "War is a tricky business". That answer was SO profound to me, not only because of it's understated nature, but because of the look on his face when he said it. He obviously experienced some very terrible things in his contribution to the fight for his country's independence. It made me feel a couple of ways:

Initially I had a feeling of immense admiration for this man (and the rest of the Croation people) who witnessed horrors unimaginable and risked EVERYTHING for their homeland. I mean, DAMN...what other reason to go to war but for the safety and well being of your family and your people?

Then I felt ashamed to be from a country that is fighting a war on foreign soil for profit. American soldiers and innocent civilians are experiencing these same horrors of war over a natural resource and to appease Big Business. That's some FUCKED UP SHIT (excuse my Taiwanese).

Let me just end my little sight-seeing-tour-guide-turned-into-random-political-rant by saying: It's been vedy, vedy intedestink (sorry, all this time in Croatia, Slovenia, and Hungary and I'm catchin' myself talking with this funny accent...) watching the news over here these days...getting a drastically different angle - a less one sided angle - on what's going on in the Iraq, and the methods the U.S. is using to do some ILL shit.

[Sigh]....it's a real drag because I LOVE being an American and I feel SO fortunate to call the U.S. my home, but our government is really doing some gangster shit on a global scale and daring someone to stop them.

[Sigh again].....(the kind where your lips flap together and make that funny noise)....

...it makes me feel very grateful that I have the opportunity to travel around the world and share a very beautiful side of American culture (black music) and be profoundly inspired by the people I get to meet. Really puts things into perspective.
Hey, anyone see the last episode of Wife Swap?

1 Comments:

Blogger person said...

really nice pictures.

and interesting commentary about whats going on in the world.

its nice to see there are people who stick up for justice.

sadly now a days though there is a lot of media, like sattelite news, and things like that, most of them tend to be biased. Thank god for the internet, where you can find some unbiased stuff.

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