Voting is as essential as washing your ass in the morning

Great to see this Hip-Hop Summit action Network doing its thing this summer with a serie sof Hip-Hop Summit of Financial Empowerment. If only they would go to Boston or Chucktown.

On another note, Chuck D dropped some serious knowledge at Laey College in California at the thir annual Malcolm X Consciousness Conference. Peep these words:

"Twenty years ago, you had gang-bangers and athletes and college students hanging out together on the corners or in barber shops in the hood and if somebody said something really ignorant - like 'the sky is purple,' or something like that - everybody would tell him to shut up. And if he got belligerent, he might even get an asswhipping. But nowadays, if someone says something ignorant on the corner, all the smart people shut up and don't challenge him, because they're afraid he might go to his car and come back with a 9 millimeter and wipe out the corner. So in the black neighborhoods, ignorance is allowed to go unchallenged, while intelligence has to keep quieter and quieter. That's one of the reasons why you're seeing so much ignorance coming out of our communities."