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• Conversation started Sunday
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  4/12, 1:17pm

  Danny Chances
  

  
  

  Hey sharif
  How's the family and kids? I've been following you guy since 2008. I'm going to Salvador this summer for a couple of months. I would like to know any tips on Salvador like good places to chow, hang out, cultural events, the do's and don'ts of that part of Brazil and where not to go.
• Sunday
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  4/12, 5:45pm

  Sharif Ali
  

  
  

  Peace, glad to hear from you.
  You know summer here is the rainy season there right? So the weather isn't as good as far as being able to do a lot and go to the beach.
  
  Barra (pronounced baha) is the best neighborhood to stay in for your first trip. It's right in the thick of everything. Definitely try acaraje, you will see people selling it on the streets, try to get it from the ladies wearing the traditional clothing b/c they will have the best ones. Pretty much as long as you stay in Barra you don't have to worry about where to hang or anything else b/c it is all going on right there or walking distance.
  
  There is this jazz concert that is real fun. They have it on Saturdays. It's called Jam no MAM. Tourists don't know about it but it is real cool to check out. There is this neighborhood called Rio Vermelho. On Friday or Saturday evenings right next to the catholic church is a house of candomble and they have this ceremony. Then a few hours later that whole spot starts popping as they have live music and just a lot going on in general.
  
  You can pretty much do whatever you want to. Just don't be stupid. Don't go down any dark alleys but other than that you don't have to dress down or any of the stuff you might hear white people say. Don't pay attention to anything you might have heard or read from white travelers.
  Have a great time!

  
  

  

  JAM no MAM | Salvador - Bahia - Brasil

  Samba Jazz no MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna

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  4/12, 5:48pm

  Danny Chances
  

  
  

  Thanx sharif are you guys still down there or back in the states?
• Tuesday
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  4/14, 9:18pm

  Sharif Ali
  

  
  

  glad to be back in the states after 5 years there
  
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  4/14, 9:21pm

  Danny Chances
  

  
  

  What you didn't like about living there? I met a dude in London from São Paulo told me not to move to Brazil. I've heard mixed thing. I know the states is the best country materialisticly. I say when it comes to capitalism it's a all you can eat buffet. I still don't like it here tho.
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  4/14, 11:04pm

  Sharif Ali
  

  
  

  Living there made me realize how good we have it here. It's nice to visit but it's not all it's cracked up to be. I hated how far back our people were there in the power structure. We have no idea how good we have it here. We are the cream of the crop and there is no other place on earth that that has black people in a better position to succeed than in the United States.
  
  The infrastructure of the country sucks, they don't build for the future only for the immediate now so things that are important like pipes, carpentry, electricity, water, and shelter are not built to last.
  
  I have children and it would not be the best option for them or me at all. The education system was not up to par. I would have had to pay a lot of money to send my children to a elite (for Brazil) private school that would have been inferior to the public schools here in America. Seriously. A lot of things that we complain about here are way worse for most people in the world.
  
  I would just visit Brazil in the future. I'll travel all over the world and go to places like Jamaica, Egypt, Fiji, you name it. But unlike many people that go on vacation and talk about how they want to live there I will be like hell no. In the back of my mind I would know that those places are only good in small doses. It's also the last place you want to be if shit really hit the fan b/c it's already in bad shape.
  
  

Voodoo Sucks | Seriously It's Wack, Outdated | More Rants

Voodoo is no more enlightening than any other religion.  It sucks on so many levels.  The worst part is that black people are the main ones who shouldn't be practicing it.  I'll explain why.  One more thing before I explain.  I'm catching flack for writing this.  My wife is Puerto Rican and Haitian.  Voodoo is part of her culture and she will find this offensive.

Voodoo is a religion of conquered people.  It didn't work in the past.  The crazy thing is that some modern-day descendants of slaves actually hope to empower themselves by trading the shackles of mainstream religion for a system that failed their ancestors.

I understand why you want to escape the church and break away from Christianity.  I get it.  Voodoo is so wack though.  It has no practical use and keeps black people in a weak mind-state that helped get them into their current conditions.  Case in point.  A few years ago, this voodoo priest dude got upset at me over some petty argument and threatened to send the Orishas (voodoo gods) after me.  I laughed at his ass, told him he was a joke, and to do his worst.

Its now 7 years later and they didn't get me.  This is sad people.  This is an example of the mindset that got African people conquered.  On one hand this voodoo guy was acting like an emotional female but that's a whole other story.  The main point is the reliance on something outside of you that has no real power.  Voodoo only works because you believe and/or fear it.  That is called a placebo effect.

I don't believe in that bullshit and neither did the European who kicked the African's black ass.  The white man was like, "Oh you're going to put a curse on me if I rape your village?  Well we have guns and we'll just place trade embargoes on your nation that will curse you for generations to come.  For real."  Whose voodoo was more powerful?  Not that bullshit, place a coconut on your alter, slaughter a chicken crap.

None of the gods from the voudun pantheon seemed to care enough to assist their practitioners while they were being enslaved, raped, families broken up, getting their asses whipped for learning how to read, and hung from trees.  They didn't offer any help while the land and resources were stolen from their loyal followers.

This is the Orishas

I mean they borrowed a page from MLK and straight turned the other cheek while all this shit was going on.  In the meantime followers had to make sacrifices, kill goats, chickens, sometimes people, do all types of weird shit, sing, dance, have all these elaborate ceremonies, and leave food out to appease these dudes (ahem, gods).

MULTI CULTURALRAL OR MIX RACE LETS FACE IT AFICAN AMERICANS ARE #! ON tHAT LIST

African Americans are some of the most mixed up people in the world.  You don't have to believe me check this out Number 1 on the list is our first black president

Adam Lazarre-White – His father is Black (Douglas White), and his mother (Jane Lazarre) is Jewish.

Alicia Keys - Singer, Black father, Italian mother.

Allen and Albert Hughes - Directors, are Black and Armenian.

(photo n/a) Jenny Lumet - Actress, is the biracial granddaughter of Lena Horne - Jewish father, mother Gail Buckley (Horne).

Amarie - Singer, Black father, Korean mother.

ARE "BLACK WOMEN" REALLY FULL OF SHIT?!?

I know a lot of yall aren't going to want to hear this.  I'll be honest I don't like to hear criticism myself either but sometimes the truth hurts.

I came to an Awful conclusion while watching the movie Good Hair by Chris Rock.  The Mothers, Sisters, Aunties, and Grandmothers, in other words, the 1st teachers of the Black communities are the most fake, hypocritical, blind, brain washed beings on the face of the planet (still love yall tho, LOL).  And if you feel attacked or offended by this blog post then yes I am talking about Your Ass!

I'm not writing all this and sitting over here with a perm, LOL.  Here is a pic of me and my youngest daughter.  I will not be putting chemicals in my children's hair either!