Showing posts with label Liberia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liberia. Show all posts

Monday

Liberia

First of all, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY (couple days late) to my beloved country Liberia. 165 years of God's glorious liberty. 
I am so proud that we are competing in the London 2012 Olympics. We're going for gold in the decathlon and track & field.  I screeeeeamed when I saw the competitors in the parade of nations!!!! 



Words can't express my pride. If you know the history of Liberia, you will understand how much of a blessing this is. I have faith that we will an even better nation than before. 

All hail Liberia, all hail. 

10/11 morning thoughts

I'm Not Hating...Just Want Talk About it

     Happy Columbus Day that-doesn't-matter-after-high-school-because-we-never-get-it-off Day!!! Like Wyclef Jean (who is now a professor at Brown University) said: let's stop lying to the children. Christopher Columbus did NOT "discover" anything. He did accidently land in the Carribean and opened that western part of the world to Europe. If we want to talk REAL history makers let's talk about Leif Ericson and the Norse whom landed in North America way before Mister Columbus did. Can we get a holiday for them? lol
     Which brings up a question: is history real? Is what they teach us in the textbooks really accurate? It truly gets under my skin when non-Liberians try to tell me that Liberia's population was solely based upon freed slaves, because this is what they have been taught. Coming of Liberia and knowledgable about the history, it frustrates me.  But not to make this all about me, it frustrates and annoys me when certain groups of people (e.g., the europeans) always paint themselves as hereos. I encourage you, which you should already be doing, to not just accept but challenge information that is given to you. You learn a lot more when you learn on your own! As for me, after witnessing these "accounts" of history, I'm only believeing " [less than] half of what I read and all of what I see." That's the definition of a wise person, right? ;)


np
If I Was President
Wyclef
circa 2006



Friday

Rendez-vous in Liberia at the bar around two


RIP to Biggie (the best to have ever done it)...
Pieces of my trip to Liberia
As If we have a choice in the USA !
Sinkor, Monrovia, Liberia...a suburb outside of the capital
ahahahah No Trespassing!
Vai Devils on Christmas Day - cultural thang
DJ Jojo
Beach Lake Piso, where the Atlantic and Lake meet
Damn Right!
Broski and Dadski on the Liberian-Sierra Leonian-Guinean border