Carrying on from yesterdays post on immortal lyrics, heres a video I came across from a Toronto local (Kanwer Singh) that really hits on all the local social issues that have been happening over the past year.

From talking about kids these days, and the whole ghetto mentality that has engulfed many of them, to the epidemic on the West with the slaying’s of the Bibian by there husbands, and families.

Apparently this video is only a prelude to a bigger and longer documentary or so I’m told that is dropping in July of 2008, so definitely keep an eye out for that.

Thanks to Harp who linked this video the other day, Most folk aren’t familiar with Immortal Technique because he hasn’t received any notable main stream recognition. For those who are familiar with him, he’s probably one of the top underground MC’s still around, who actually makes an effort to bring social issues to the forefront and focal point of his music.

Either way, check out this freestyle from earlier where he gives a special shout out to the Singhs and 84 its all pretty graphic so the normal disclaimer applies to those with sensitive ears.

It’s not his greatest track by any means, but you got love the shout out he gives..

Racist Insults Results In Massive Beat-Down In Montreal.
This was recorded last night in downtown Montreal. Apparently, 2 young men were hurling racist insults at a group of black people. The end result was that they got the crap kicked out of them, and rightly so.
What were they thinking?!?

Akaali hiii Akaaal,

Video linked courtesy of the Rock, title suggested by Sarpanch Sahib.

Thanks to Kamal Ottawa Valaa, for linking the video, and f.y.i - thats not a blunt in his hand but a fat pen (I think).

For more info check out the article in the star - http://www.thestar.com/article/346963

I haven’t heard much about the Laibar Singh case out here on the East Coast. It hasn’t been headline news and it hasn’t been a topic of discussion on any of the popular talk radio programs that I listen to, so all I really know about the case is what I found out while checking the various news outlets and snooping around on some West Cost blogs.

Basically, Laibar Singh came into Canada on forged passports, filed a refugee claiment saying he fears being tortured and prosecuted if he returns to India because he’s been unjustly blamed for terrorism. The fed’s end up not buying his story and order him out. He then seeks refuge of the Sikh Sangat, and then suffers a stroke which has left him a quadrapalegic. The community again files for asylum on compassionate and humanitarian grounds, stating that he’s in no condition to be deported and will not recieve the care he now needs if sent back to India. The government again turns a deaf year to all the lobbying and Labair Singh was to have been flown back to India last Sunday. Fortunately for him, the Sangat stood by him and came out in the thousands to protest at the airport, blocking all traffic and making it impossible to get Singh on the plane. Left with no choice the government granted Singh an extension and so thats where things were left, last I checked.

Not having all the facts let alone most of them, I still have a hard time believing the original refugee claim. Not that it can’t be true, just seems like everyone plus their mother has been taught to use it. Same time you can’t blame the portion of society, who wants the man out, he did after all break the law and could potentially be a burden on the system, and the law is the law, so why make exceptions or pick up the tab for his misfortunes when there are others who may very well be more deserving.

All that aside though, the fact that he is in the unfortunate circumstance that he’s in; having no family, and not being able to begin help himself, it’s only fitting that society as a whole lends out a helping hand. Also, with a community willing to pick up the tab, its hard to imagine what burden he can be on the system if any, so why make a fuss over it.

The politics of the matter already have the conservatives red in the face, and having a reputation of being anti immigration you would think they of all people would want to do something to change that. Then again, if nothing else comes from this, as someone else had pointed out to me earlier, its always good to see a community known throughout the mainstream for its infighting and distention amongst its groups, to have come together and put up a united front.