Rodney King

I was sad to hear about the death of Rodney King, he was a man in a unfortunate position which brought racism of the US police and police brutality to forefront of everyone's attention.  A bystander video recorded the incident and it clearly showed the policemen beating a black man who could not defend himself for no reason.

This incident showed all of America the social inequalities and the victimization that the black community faced and still face to this day.  After the officers were acquitted by a jury with no black members, rioting broke out in LA.

There has been much media speculation that Rodney was drinking and smoking drugs in the early hours of the morning which resulted in him drowning in his pool.  There were images of marijuana plants being removed from his house but no definite evidence of what was in his system when he passed away.

I will remember him as a man who started a movement and brought to life and clearly showed to mainstream America the inequalities the black communities faced there.  Also the police brutality and the fact that they could get away with anything they did and the system was built in there favor.  Another case of the rich do as they please and the poor suffer.

Institutional racism is not just something that affects america its also alive and well here in the UK.  It is still an issue that victimizes many people purely on their race.

Eric Cantona on Israel

Finally Eric says what the rest of the world is thinking.  But because he has said it about Israel (A illegal state which is occupying the land of Palestine) which is backed by the US and UN I'm pretty sure it will be ignored.  The way of the world - the poor get trampled on and the rich do what they please.

Please check out the link below; http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4243386,00.html

InSPIrAtion ExISTS BuT iT Has TO FinD yOU wORkiNG!!! 

Houla Massacre

What kind of world do we live in?

How can a group of people shoot, stab and hack to death another group of people?

Why does power mean more to governments than their people?

Why do soldiers who should be protecting there civilians start killing them?

What is a human life, a child's life worth?

Today i saw images of 32 young children killed with 60 adults in their village and they made me want to cry.  All i could think of was why would anyone do this to children, how could they take the lives of other humans in such a brutal way.  Some of these kids looked like they had been hacked to death, all in the name of power and a government (or shall i say regime) that does not want to give up.

The response from the rest of the world seems to be nothing and no help for a people who are being brutally killed by their government.  The UN does not seem to have made any noise about the killing and the media coverage for the rest of the world seems to be very little.  I just cant comprehend, these were young innocent children killed, unarmed civilians just killed in their houses.  Some groups of people seem to be above the law but they don't seem to realise Allah see's all.

Syria to me is just a different form of apartheid, a different form of dictatorship for the Sunni majority by the Alawites.  The Assads belong to this minority and it was put in power by the French when they gave this sect the power whilst using them to fight the majority, whilst prior to that historically they were the underdogs of society.  Divide and rule has been an amazing tactic used by the west to control nations and it has always worked for them.  They have used divide and rule to rule over so many nations and it has caused the killing of so many innocent people and still this seems to be the case.

When will the life of a human being be worth more than power, worth more than political maneuvering and such acts by 'ghost fighters' to scare people no longer occur.

You can see images from this incident on my twitter or google the houla massacre for more information.

Ibrahim Sincere - Unchained

Unchain your minds and wake up, Ibrahim Sincere has been making thought provoking, political music for a while now and this is his latest track.  Please check it out;

Lana Del Rey

So this track blue jeans - I was not a fan when I first heard it and now I can’t get enough of it.  This song has grown on me so much and I think if they speed this track up and put it on a ‘bad’ house music beat this track would be a killer.  I heard a ‘Filthy’, ‘Dirty’ dub step mix of it on You Tube but I really think they need to make it a lot faster.   

It could be like the Nancy Sinatra track 'Bang Bang you shot me down' - that track on a house music beat was so amazing and I think they could have the same success with this.

It’s not just the track Lana Del Rey has also grown on me (no pun intended).  When I first heard her music, I didn’t understand what all the fuss was about but now I’m like a super fan (over-exaggeration but a fan).  Amazing how one track can change your opinion of a artist.

Here’s Blue Jeans;

This is the dub step track - wait for it to kick in; 

Bol

Recently I have rekindled my obsession with Bollywood movies and started watching all the new releases.  I was pleasantly surprised when I came across a film which was actually not from the Bollywood world, but from Pakistani cinema.  

The film was called Bol and is a must see for fans of Pakistani or Bollywood films.  This film is unlike old Pakistani movies and competes with best of Hollywood and Bollywood cinema. This film had me hooked from start to end and delved into many issues which affect not just Pakistani communities, but are big issues in Pakistan.  

The film revolves around a family who live in Lahore, a family mainly made up of a group of sisters and a son who is born with a boy’s body, but a female inside.  It starts off with all the sisters and their mother in jail and the eldest sister about to be hung to death for a crime.  She has asked for one last request before she is hung and that is to be able to tell her story to the press and her wish is granted.  She could possibly have saved herself if she had told this story earlier in the courts but she remained silent, there is one journalist who is trying to save her and the question is will she be successful? 

The story begins with her introducing her family background and the fact that she had left her marriage because she did not want to have children until her husband was financially stable.  A crime in the eyes of her in laws so she had moved back home, her father is not happy and rules the house with an iron rod.  The father battles to feed all his daughters and the thought of having a son who is not actually a son. The family go through a vast amount off issues which test them and in the end the father commits some dreadful crimes and before he commits another, his daughter kills him.  The final crime he was about to commit after killing his son and having an affair with a prostitute for money to pay off debt he had accrued was to kill a baby.  The baby was his daughter who he had with the prostitute.  

The story touched on so many issues wrong a right in modern day Pakistani including the role of women, the cast barriers we have, the war between Shia and Sunni Muslims, education for girls, love stories and should families keep trying for a boy when they can’t financially support the family they already have .  

This is a thought provoking film and even had me thinking where do i stand on these issues.  Check out the trailer below;