So what does Nas have to say?

“I think Jesse Jackson, he’s the biggest player hater. His time is up. All you old n****s, time is up. We heard your voice, we saw your marching, we heard your sermons. We don’t wanna hear that s**t no more.
“It’s a new day. It’s a new voice. I’m here now. We don’t need Jesse; I’m here. I got this. We got Barack, we got David Banners and Young Jeezys.
“We’re the voice now. It’s no more Jesse. Sorry. Goodbye. You ain’t helping nobody in the ‘hood. That’s the bottom line. Goodbye, Jesse. Bye!”

Now let me wrap my head around this statement. Did Nas just say ““It’s a new day. It’s a new voice. I’m here now. We don’t need Jesse; I’m here. I got this. We got Barack, we got David Banners and Young Jeezys.” Like does that even make sense. This ego of yours has got to stop my brother, Nas you must have forgotten that your credibility waned when you pulled your recent “NIGGER” stunt. You remember don’t you, naming your album Nigger knowing it would create heavy backlash and then changing it at the last minute because of fear of record stores not carrying it. Wasn’t that obvious!

So goodbye Cornel West, and Kevin Powell, we have Nas, Jeezy and David Banner. What we have to realize is that all of our voices count for something. We can not look to rappers to be the voice of the people because far too often they are the voice of their own pocket. But we do have to acknowledge their presence, their thoughts. Their minds click just like the rest of ours do, in order to reach true equality to promote true change we must combine all of our voices and put action to OUR agenda.

But I mean do we really have to throw Jesse Jackson under the bus. Do we reallly have to play the ignorant younger generation role and discredit the great things Jesse has done in the black community. Let’s be serious!

And why is it when we have a problem we run to the media, is this a ploy to sell albums. This is the pot calling the kettle black; the older generation discredits the younger and the younger discredit the older. Is this not the same system that was created to destroy black communities in the first place that you so eloquently rap on your new album.

Tell me what’s better; white supremacy or black supremacy. Neither, they both look to do the same thing, they just change the beneficiary. So Our generation versus the Civil Rights Generation is no different and the countless bickering takes away form the bigger picture at hand. It is clear that the slave/ master mentality is still in place; althought we are slaves to money and attention, not just hegemony and institutionalized racism.