Shout out to Tiane for actually reading my blogs! Also, shout to Adam, Sam, and all the bamas I argue with at the gym. There are quite a few interesting things to talk about. Sonia Sotomayor is now the first latina on the Supreme Court of the United States. Progress!!! Perhaps more people who are currently uninsured will get health care, including my mom! Now, the recording industry world wide gets the gasface, for trying to front on my advance. ASCAP also gets the bozack for not giving me my royalties. Ramaddans coming so its almost time to delete all the porn out of computer and get on the right path. I'm just about to leave the country for a short period of time. It's always interesting for me to leave our borders. It's humbling to see a different level of poverty for people who work so hard. When i was in the Dominican Republic for the first time, I rode by sugar cane fields on the way to the resort and saw the Haitian immigrants chopping sugar cane. I've heard they are mistreated severely in DR, because they are illegal, and because of the fact that Haiti ruled the whole island for 20 in the early 1800s. Personally, i think some of it is anti-black racism, which is so interesting considering the fact that 90% of the Dominicans I saw were "morenos." What's also interesting is that when Dominicans travel to the east, they face discrimination (not quite as severly) on the same grounds from their Puerto Rican neighbors. Sometimes one has to wonder, as a Black man, why did God place me int the circumstances he did. Why did I attend the finest schools, live in an upper middle class neighborhood, and come from an educated family? Why am I not toiling in the fields in the hot Caribbean sun like some of my Black brother? God only knows. I thank him for the opportunities he's given me, and i sometimes feel alittle guity. The only thing i can do is devote myself and some of my time to helping others. I feel like I have to give my album Standing Tall to my brothers in those fields, the sisters who suffer sexual violence in Africa (and worldwide), and the children who cry themselves to sleep with empty stomachs. Now, I'm expecting once again, on my way back to be thoroughly searched when I go through customs like I was last time. (Seriously, even the white people were saying it wasn't fair) However, I will stand up and speak up for a Dominican immigrants rights. Though some Mexicans call Blacks "Mayates" (or just plain old nigger), I support Mexican immigrants here in the states. I just hope that all of us realize that it could be anyone of us working those sugar cane fields in the sun. Hazmatic and I'm gone...