Inventing my canvas
This blog is simply going to be a space where I can express my vision and opinions about a variety of topics that I question on my daily sojourn. This is a space where I can post images about African American and Caribbean culture. This space was born out of a need to see more grassroots issues being discussed among my family and community both here and in Jamaica. I hope that each topic or picture I write about will be controversial. At the same time, I hope that each topic will also be enlightening and uplifting. I truly hope that everyone will be in agreement in the end, but that might be too optimistic and idealistic of me.
Yes I might be a bit opinionated, and I might also appear very idealistic, but I also believe that one of my strengths is subverting my own opinions and views in order to tell a good story. I see a story every day. They might not all be in-depth reportage, but like poetry, I see the rhythms and essence that make them come alive in the mind and heart of a viewer. I promise to write no longer than two paragraphs.
You know, I have always hoped that there would be a magazine, a newspaper (no disrespect Amsterdam News) a resource on a national or even international level where stories relating to Blacks, Negro people, African American/Caribbean stories were broached, flushed out, and discussed just on a more personal level; real talk, so to speak. I will try to maintain a more visceral platform, something simple that every one can relate to and talk about. I think through this space I can also continue to do the kind of work that is sometimes overlooked.
So elections are coming and once again all eyes are on the Black man running for President. Somewhere in the United States, someone, some politician somewhere is sitting around a table plotting, scheming, telling his other fellow knights that they have to do whatever it takes to ensure that the negro does not get a second term. Personally it is six of one and half dozen of the other, translated to mean: whoever is in power does not help my situation at home.
That said, It seemed rather unfair that the previous dude was allowed two terms to bring the country to this state and not even a 100 days after President Obama took office the media was already evaluating his “mediocre” performance. I won’t remind everyone that The Noble Peace Prize winner kicked black folk under the bus, opting to run on a more non partisan (colour) agenda but I do feel that President Obama’s mistake is that he tried to hard to ride the fence, in other words, he tried to please both sides and in doing so, he did not please any one. I believe that both sides now seem to be fed up with his whole first term.
