I Don't Want To Leave This Mess

Paul Ryan's Love For Rage Against The Machine Is Amusing, Because He Is The Embodiment Of The Machine That Our Music Has Been Raging Against For Two Decades

I Didn't Grow Up With My Kenyan Family. I Grew Up In A Small, Conservative Suburb Of Chicago.

I Think I Was Meant To Be A Musician Who Speaks His Mind About Social Justice Issues. And I Grew Up In A Lower Middle Class Family, But A Family That Had Enough Money To Buy A $50 Guitar And A $50 Amplifier, And Had A Basement To Rehearse In. What I Think The Global Human Cost Of This Horrific Poverty Is How Many Mozarts Or Curers Of Cancer Are Slaving Away In The Maquiladoras Along The Tijuana Border, Or In The Indonesian Sweat Shops? There Are Billions Of People Who Will Never Become The People They Could Be, Or The People They Were Meant To Be, Due To Crushing Poverty.

I Literally Integrated The Small Town Of Libertyville, Illinois. I Was The First Person Of Color To Reside Within Its Borders.

In My Own Way, I Was A Rebellious Kid.