Philadelphia was where America's Declaration of Independence from the British Empire was signed, and we know how to rock it on the 4th. After a night of partying at my friend's place on South Street yesterday, and exhausted from working out, I needed an easy way to party today and I was blessed with a block party. How fuckin easy is that? Just buy some 40s of Schlitz and eat some burgers, hot-dogs and ribs bein cooked up by my neighbors. Love hip-hop and MJ, but if I get tired of it I just go back inside for a bit and listen to some punk rock and fuck around on the internet (like I'm doing now), then when I get bored with that, head back outside to the party. Fuckin easy. There are many negative things about my neighborhood (and I hope to be moving soon) but days like today-- perfect weather, party on the street, pretty chicks walkin around in skimpy shit, little kids and adults alike havin a good time, fresh grilled food-- ain't a fuckin thing wrong with it.
Anyhow, I leave you with some words of wisdom from one of America's greatest revolutionaries-- Thomas Jefferson.
From The Declaration of Independence, perhaps the most radical manifesto up to that point in history:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.From a letter to William Stephens Smith:
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.Viva La Revolucion! El Duffo o Muerte!
Topic: Happy Independence Day from the cradle of liberty