I do this for my culture
To let them know what a n***a look like when a n***a in a Roadster
Show them how to move in a room full of vultures
Industry is shady, it needs to be taken over
Label owners hate me, I’m raising the status quo up …
– Jay-Z, “Izzo (H.O.V.A)
When Sabrina Stevens first sent me this video, I cursed in two languages. First, I said “Right on!” Second, I blinked really hard at the scree. Third, I shared with my friends. Fourth, I feared for her life.
Did you feel that? Sabrina’s soliloquy rings bells. I mean, this is the part where we jump off the couch and throw the popcorn on the floor.
For those of you unaware, ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is a pseudo-non-profit that prides itself on “free-market enterprise, limited government, and federalism,” sponsoring politicians who write bills that follow their corporatist agenda. The major angst and protest we see amongst Americans all across the country start in some of the rooms ALEC occupy. Ironically, they want to crush public teachers’ unions, privatize public schools, and push universities to lean more right on the public dime.
Rumor has it they have a diagram of the school system tied above a big, boiling pot of lava.
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