It’s all Politics

I’m not going to get political on this site. I just wanted to share with you something really great I read last week. Talib Kweli was interviewed in a local Detroit paper (RDW) and had some great insight and inspiration into the whole political scene we’re currently in />

Regardless of how he’s categorized, the political element in Kweli’s work is hard to overlook. Even though he is quick to criticize the Bush administration, he sees voting as a rather limited instrument of social change.

“I know about politics. To be honest with you, it’s like a T.V. show. It’s like watching The Office or something. So it’s interesting in that respect. As far as the candidates’ policies on health care or the war, I don’t believe that you can affect that by a vote. I believe it’s misleading to tell people that they can effect change by one vote, or that somehow your one vote is some kind of revolutionary action. Like you can feel good by voting every four years and not doing anything else. It’s the stuff that you do outside of election day that determines what happens in your community.”

Voting every four years seems like a given for everyone. But it’s not (64 percent voter turnout in 04′)

I guess the point is,.. even if you feel you’re 1 vote won’t make a difference in the presidential campaign,.. there’s plenty of other things to get involved in. So please don’t think you only have 1 chance every 4 years to make a difference. Find issues you care about and get behind them. Don’t think it’s somebody else’s job to make things better. You have the power,. now go use it.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution 1993

Via > RealDetroitWeekly

PS- Practice what I preach. I just signed on to Save the Internet.

I know it’s not much,.. but it’s a start.

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