One of my favorite activities is finding the similarities between people and things

two things i love are debate in bmore and hoops in bmore

revolution is one thing that both hoops and bmore debate have in common

in the city of bmore shit be fucked up

my people hurt bad, suffering galore

keep your head up

and thats what we do which is one thing that is SPECIAL about us

we debate because we realize that youth voice must be activated in order to uncover and abolish the

vast amounts of violence that rain on the heads of the world’s poor working people

here everyone works to make it to the next morning

while gentrification eats at the edges of the ghetto and in the deep pockets shit is so ugly that one debater suggested today that we burn it down and build up from the ashes 

the youth know poverty 

they know revolution is what needs to happen

they see it in the hoops and they get it that i am a hoop slinger, vernacular

corner dealer, and i drive a hooped out whip

early 90s subaru, i drive to class and we learn together,

no trace of original color left on the car while

i renounce the blankness of “white” and embrace the rainbow of possibilities that making painted cars and wicked hula hoops bring.

fuck all these blank walls and drone ass motherfuckers who cant ever find blogs like this and that to spark their inner hoop color like you have, dear and beloved reader.

really this is just a love letter to you.  a new genre, see.