The Workermonkey

Friday, February 03, 2006

The Progressive Beat / Kolpack Calls Me On One(2 part post) 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 2/03/2006 08:15:00 PM

Here i am listening to my friday night Reggae show thinking what is it i like about Raggae anyway? I mean i dont like most Rap or Dance music. After some contimplation i realized Raggae is like Black Folk music. I know thats far to simple, but think about it, instead of just trying to sell records, there is normally some message about social injustice or love or something meaningfull underlying the music. I think thats why i like it, its not about blowing coke or beating women. Its good music with a positive message. I think, but maybe its the beat and accents?

Part II
So last night i was on an Bush-wacking rant at Tino's and Kolpack called me on some shit i was talking about old Osama. Now i got all this stuff in my head and at times im not sure what is true and what is not, i do make an attempt to stick to the facts. So today i made it a point to back up my statements or place an official retraction. But alas i did not just make it up.
Exibit A:In 1989, the exhausted Soviets finally quit Afghanistan. With his mentor Azzam dead at the hands of an assassin and his job seemingly done, bin Laden went home to Jidda. The war had stiffened him. He became increasingly indignant over the corruption of th e Saudi regime and what he considered its insufficient piety. His outrage boiled over in 1990. When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia, bin Laden informed the royal family that he and his Arab Afghans were prepared to defend the kingdom. The offer was spurned. Instead, the Saudis invited in U.S. troops for the first time ever. Like many other Muslims, bin Laden was offended by the Army's presence, with its Christian and Jewish soldiers, its rock music, its women who drove and wore pants. Saudi Arabia has a singular place among Islamic countries as the cradle of Islam and as home to Mecca and Medina, which are barred to non-Muslims.(From Time)

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