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Old 20-03-04, 10:55 AM   #1
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GrinNo You Down Wit' GOP?

Dana Mozie was raised in Philadelphia in a tough neighborhood controlled by gangs. He attended Howard University with Puffy and earned his hip-hop credentials in the late 1980s working with one of rap's most menacing incarnations, NWA, and one of its most sanitized, Kid 'N Play. These days, however, Mozie is a Washington-based political activist.

Nothing surprising in that, right? Russell Simmons is an increasingly powerful political organizer, too. Rap and hip-hop are intrinsically political forms, liberal vocabularies for a million things going wrong in America. They challenge, subvert, threaten, blah-blah-Tupac-blah.

But Dana Mozie isn't the political activist you'd expect. He's a Republican. Mozie describes himself as the party's "ambassador to the hip-hop culture." The position is unofficial, unpaid and largely unrecognized. But within the GOP, the title of Hip Hop Ambassador is also unchallenged.

Tell him the moniker is ridiculous and you'll get a first-person sociopolitical urban narrative. He's volunteered with the Republican National Committee and co-produced a documentary more..

flak's homepage has really evolved!
also i was looking at some history of this "grand old (new) party"
sounds just like our liberal party over here..even the name lies to you..


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It was the restoration of the monarchy in the 17th century that brought the Whigs to power. Whigs were largely responsible for the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which established the supremacy of Parliament over the King. In spite of that, the royal court continued to dominate politics and Whig fortunes rose and fell according to the whims of the monarch of the day.

In the early 18th century, the Whigs - by reputation rational and unsentimental about the legitimate demands of trade and social utility - won the support of businessmen, industrialists, untitled landowning gentry and religious nonconformists. In 1760, they lost power and became identified with those American colonists who supported American independence.

Whigs returned to power in 1830 with broad popular support for constitutional change and the elimination of legislative anachronisms that were obstructing valuable new ideas. They succeeded in enacting their programme under the collective rubric of the Reform Bills.

Having accomplished this historic role, they were superseded in Britain by the liberal wing of the Tory party. (In America, northern Whigs tended to join the newly formed Republican party while those in the South were absorbed by the Democratic party.)
seems to be a certain amount of "whiggery" in our liberal party as well..
funny..
i always imagined GOP was "group of pigs"
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