Confessions of an Unorthodox Vegetarian

So...I'm an Unorthodox Vegetarian...

I guess to my hardcore vegetarian comrades that would make me an oxy-moron! Oh...well...sigh...ANYWAY...The perfect way to start these blogs is to let me people know exactly WHO I am.

I am an unorthodox vegetarian. I don't eat meat, however I do eat fish and other seafoods such as shrimp and crawfish. I don't consume much dairy products (a little lactose intolerant), but I do eat cheese and sometimes vanilla ice cream. I don't eat chicken or turkey, fried, baked, or broiled, but I do fry and scramble an occasional egg.

I am an unorthodox vegetarian. I don't follow ANY religious doctrine. HOWEVER, I feel peace when I walk into a Christian church because that was where I was raised. I can commune with followers of Islam. I can partake in reasoning with Rastas. I can gain inspiration from a creative and intelligent mind who only believes in himself, as well as the hearts of others, following NO supposed higher entity. I can embrace anyone following any "way of life" vs. a "religous doctrine" (there is a difference and it will be discussed in a later blog). I am an unorthodox Christian...a Christian before there ever was a Constantine. I am an unorthodox Muslim...a Muslim before there ever was a Muhammad (METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING; no disrespect to the prophet). I am an unorthodox Jew...a Jew before there ever was a Zionist movement. All that balled into one is an original way of life where the human mind believed in a spirit and lived in humility loving all creations of the Creator before "rule-igion" and "poli-tricks" got involved.

I am an unorthodox vegetarian. I can blast the best in Hip Hop from the Funky Four + One More to Black Star to Dead Prez to my FAVORITE HIP HOP GROUP OF ALL TIME BONE THUGS N HARMONY!!!! But then, you can catch me playing Enya, Enigma, Angelique Kidjo, and Minmi. On an honest level, I bump Bob Marley (my dad, ha ha ha) and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony on the daily!

I am an unorthodox vegetarian. I love to indulge myself in the literary works of Ralph Ellison (Invisable Man), Chancellior Williams (Destruction of Black Civilization), and/or Black Psychological studies of Amos Wilson (Blueprint for Black Power) and Dr. Francis Cress Welsing (The Isis Papers). On the other hand, you can catch me almost every Wednesday at a comic book on New Comic Book Day buying the latest X-Men and Batman comic. If you had a camera in my house (which the government does in all our houses---will be discussed in a later blog) you can find me spending hours upon hours playing Final Fantasy video games.

I am an unorthodox vegetarian. I am a visual and spoken word artist. My work use to only focus on African and African American history and experiences. I now like to use that as my foundation where that important seed called "knowlege of self" was planted. As seeds do if they are perfectly maintained, that seed of African foundation grew into roots. Those roots grew into trees, those trees grew branches. Those branches grew leaves. In other words, those branches are other cultures that influcence my art and social outlook. I love ALL cultures because my art helps me conclude that we all in the human family are connected one way or another. I like to think of myself as an "Art-Anthropologist." I use my art to study other cultures and then relate them to my own. From that I gain a broader understanding of not only who I am, not only who the human family can be...but WHAT the human family can BECOME.

I am an unorthodox vegetarian. If you are expecting lettuce...I'll give you lettuce with some salmon. If you are expecting salmon, I give you mushrooms and swiss. If you are expecting mushrooms and swiss, I'll give you pesto bread with marinara.

One Love and blessings to ALL in the "Hueman" family.

Namaste

Ashe

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Sorry if there are typos...

Blasphemy

They say that freedom of speech
Is a double-edge sword...
When it comes to ignorant,
backward minded bastards like Pat Robertson,
I wish I could reach that sword deep
Into their hearts to make them bleed
Fraud-ary.
I'm sick of this biblical
False prophecy sodomy.
I'm speaking from the heart
So it won't bother me if some
Of you pitch-fork conservative Christians
Call me heathen.
It's a wonder how Pat Robertson is still breathin'.
It's a wonder how those who follow him blindly
Believing up-side-down cross
False doctrine are even living in the present day.

And although I may be giving this lesson in a thuggish way
I won't stress out on anger.
Instead, I'll bless you with a truth
More truthful than your spoof on Christianity...
Words in the form of Jesus curses
Increases your ratings and vanity.
Basically damning the Haitians
Blaming their calamity
On a slave revolution that you call a satanic pact.

Well, Pat...
What about Native Tiano or Native Inca
Trusting foreign Christian European conquistadors
While those conquistadors gave them blankets filled
With small pox?
What about that?
Divine intervention for a savage people who needed Jesus???

What about forced voyages of Africans through
Trans-Atlantic middle passages on floating
Blessed-by-the-Pope carriages,
Being sold, ravaged, raped, and dehumanized
All of this to eventually give rise to the
United Snakes of AmeriKKK in disquise?
Or is that manifest destiny to you, Pat?

But this ain't no
Bash America poem.
I'm just puttin' ignorant asses on blast.
Ignorant asses who use storms and earthquakes
As an excuse to serve their Jim Jones Jesus juice...
Or in Rush Limbaugh's case:
Oxycodone motives to his devoted
Nazi semen swallower
Followers
Showering obvious white-supremacy
Ideology.

Pat, you're a false prophet
Behind a PBS pulpit
Public Bull Shit
With your 666 Club of Anti-Christ
Third Riech
Heard and practiced nightly by
Closed minded conservative Christian hicks
...annnd some ignorant Negroes too...

Supporter of Zionist
But Anti-Semetic toward true Hebrews
Supporter of the State of Isreal
While Palestinians continue to be abused.
All the shape twisted Apocalyptic views
To bring forth Meggido...
But you are,
"So right and Holy with your conservative Christian views"
You don't see this though.
You feel as if Haiti is paying her due
And that God decided to send poverty and earthquakes
In the wake of African liberation
And that the Haitians would NOT be in this situation
Had they submitted to the French...
Even worse you state that they must repent?

What the hell makes you so Heaven sent?
Calling forth the assassination of Third World presidents.
Acting like you got Jesus living in your residence.
But this Gentile
Is hip to your projectile blasphemy
You pile of bones with a dysfunctional erectile.

It's even sadder to see
Intelligent people who agree
With your ignorance.
Your words are a reflection of white supremacist
Christian sermons served at Pick-Nick lynches.
There is hypnotic Anthrax in your church benches
Poisoning the nervous system of anyone who listens
To your sacrilegious bitchin'
A god-like Donkey to "foliticians"
Who go to you for political ass kissin'
You should be locked in a prison
Alone surrounded by nothing but
Cries, screams, and moans of Hurricane Katrina and
Haitian earthquake victims!

And if you try to escape
Your legs should break after you
Trip over the bones of Native American tribes
And Caribbean African slaves.
Who's gonna save you?

There are others who probably wanna say all this
But don't have the guts
This may not be humble of me
But fuck Pat Robertson!
And I mean that
From the bottom of my nuts!

©Copyright 2010. Antoine GHOST Mitchell