Immortal Technique on Election Results: Revolution Doesn’t Stop, The Struggle Continues

(Via facebook) Outspoken Hip Hop artist and activist, Immortal Technique took to facebook this morning to respond to last night’s election results.

I’ve always voted. But this year I was uninspired. And yet I still voted, not for Romney and not for Obama. I waited until I saw that New York was firmly blue in for Democrat over Republican here. And then made the vote for a 3rd party candidate because neither blue nor red candidate addressed the issues that I had even wanted brought up. No prison industrial, military industrial, education issues put in the main arguments. But in a sense I played a chess move, in a swing state I would have stood against the Republican foreign Policy and their extremely hypocritical views on immigration and inability to address the racist and religious extremists in the their own party. In a battleground state I would have had to go Blue if there was too close of a race. But I think what’s really sad is that there was once some sort of semblance in a Libertarian government idea but the Right wing dragged half of that ideology with it to the right, I think if it had been tied to a realistic view of expanding populations, many of the things that right wingers fiscally want are totally possible in a Democratic state.

Unfortunately since the religious influence on the Right Wing politics has been a major tool of infiltration into our Asian, Indigenous / Latino and African American communities. We vote against abortion, but where is the same Christian compassion for the millions of children we abort in our foreign wars? In a war that criminalizes our own people who tore a piece out of their side, like Adam did in the bible according to the story to make this this country, and though we speak Spanish less and less, and we barely speak ay Indigenous languages except for the ones that are fortunate enough to grow up in a house that is full of that sort of education. I see the idea that education is not a right but a privilege being permeated too much amongst our people. And yet now we are asked to vote against every interest but one that pretends to hold our souls. I was joking when I hit up Latinos for Romney but that’s just insane.

The President didn’t reflect many of my interests and seemed to pander to people towards the end, yes he was blocked by Republicans left and right but he still was better on some social issues than the Right Wing candidate. Who honestly, just wasn’t believable. Romney was all over the place, had one god debate and then we realized his position changed too much and he didn’t make the impression of being much of a good liar. And that is what a incomplete campaign promise is. The one to close Guantanamo, end the wars, end the depression, push through real immigration reform. I hope that these things are going to be done now. I’m glad Romney is not president. But we still have political prisoners, we still have a war. We still have broken promises from the 1st term, and we will all be in a better place and then I’ll be glad. If I didn’t vote for Obama, and I didn’t vote for Romney, did my vote count? Well I voted in all the local elections too besides for my 3rd party candidate in sniper distance safety and those are decided by a few hundred or a few thousand so I guess in that sense my vote did count. The fact that my vote only counts if it changes the face of the world, shows what an empire we truly live in.

Revolution doesn’t stop, the struggle continues, I’m glad that we didn’t face the extremism of the Right wing machine, but let us not be pacified by a left wing one either. We need to be issue based and work together more than ever. Harlem is happy though, not as happy as 2008 but chill. I’m glad to be home, and the funniest part is watching Fox and the right wing bloggers go insane. haha

Peace.
-Immortal Technique
(Sorry wrote this quickly.)