This blog entry is named for one of Jeff Chang’s popular recent articles, “The Hip Hop Generation Can Call for Peace”. We can call for a lot of things, cause frankly–and not soon enough–all those old white farts on the Hill are gonna take a long overdue dirt nap. We’re gonna be left. Funny, how short our collective memories are. I bet in twenty years Master P will be congressman Miller, Dem-Louisiana, and the former drug dealing, ho slapping Ice Cream Man “with a muthafuckin tank!” will be voting on issues like women’s reproductive rights and education reform with the rest of his Hill cohorts. Ughhhhhh!!! In politics, it’s all about spin, baby! Without that, how else could Nazi sympathizers now be seen as the pinnacle of Christian values? The Bushes, I mean.

I digress. If we have that much clout in the new mil then damn, we seriously need to get rid of these bogus slave holidays. How can anyone in their right mind celebrate, or even wish “Happy Holidays” in good conscious to anyone else this time of year, which “just happens” to be the most lucrative retail time of the year? Especially with this Thanksgiving shit. This is like celebrating Jim Crow Day. Or having a Willie Lynchfest.

For anyone who is still dumb to the facts about Thanksgiving please read up on it. This great piece on Manataka.org is a fantastic place to start. I have been aggravated at this whole circus of events that happens from November 25 til December 25 – how nice, an exact month for retailers to rack up – for years now and perhaps this will be the first year that I do not partake in Christmas.

Imagine it. If a significant part of the population refused to take part in Christmas, many retailers would probably be crippled. I would at least feel better about it if there was much more of a communal aspect to it, like every year citizens can donate to a national fund for a gift to a deserving component of our community, or of the world community. That to me is the real spirit of giving, when the gifts extend beyond your own nukular family. After all, my dear Christians, isn’t it easiest to give to your own families? Doesn’t the work of *the Lord* advocate giving to others before yourself? You guys got that shit all friggin backwards, and man I’m just about to be done with the whole damn thing! Fuck it! Fuck Thanksgiving and Christmas! Yeshua’s b-day wasn’t even in December!