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Palestinian Identity.. *Poem By: Remi Kanazi.

I was born overseas as a refugee.
With little knowledge myself and my ancestry
Growing up in American society, you conform to your realities
I watched mtv and envied actors and people who drove Mercedes
I didn’t listen to Public Enemy or read Noam Chomsky
Comprehend the need for autonomy
I didn’t care, arrest people in Texas for sodomy
Holla B, I was a dark kid, trying to be a white kid, acting like a black kid
In my middle class economy
But my mom didn’t speak this language perfectly
And I was reminded with certainty
My name wasn’t Ali or Punjab MC
Not Khalid, Rashid, or anyone from Aladdin’s family
I was just me
But who was me?
I asked the question quietly
Just a creation of this society?
As my relatives suffered unjustly
Fighting oppression in MidEast countries
What is Palestinian identity?
What was preventing me from seeing what others pointed out so easily?
It’s scary not having autonomy, the only one with a permanent tan on the baseball team
Maybe I should have borrowed Michael Jackson’s cream
It’s funny being seen
I know I look like that terrorist in that movie
Yup, the biggest nose in three counties
And I think I figured it out eventually
I’m a Palestinian American with a voice to be heard loudly
Standing proudly with one foot on democracy and the other seeking autonomy
As the media tries to rewrite my people’s history
I will always be me, but my roots are planted firmly
American with Palestinian ancestry
Planting seeds for hybrid ideology
Scaling walls of mediocrity
To lands of productivity
Hands with the proclivity to build cities based on trust
Founding committees structured on peaceful themes
You see these schemes aren’t just a dream
It’s what I say, know and mean
And one day we’ll all be seen
With transparency
So I step forward apart of team
The true essence of what I believe to be
American Palestinian identity

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BEING PALESTINIAN.....*Article By: Karma Nabulsi


Palestinians possess more than enough culture, language, history, and ethnicity to fall within the traditional claims of a nation, and therefore to base identity upon a combination of these categories. But a people is more than a nation, as both our existential predicament and unceasing struggle over generations demonstrate. How does one define the nature of this extra feature that identifies us as a people? .... READ MORE @ [link]
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FinePix A820
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Aperture
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Focal Length
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ISO Speed
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Date Taken
Apr 3, 2008, 9:43:37 AM
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