Immortal Technique Pens Letter To Afghanistan Orphanage

    This afternoon, rapper and revolutionary Immortal Technique supplied HipHopDX with his recent letter to followers and interested parties, confirming his plans to build an orphanage and clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan. The letter is posted below:

    I made the people of the world a promise. Not the music world, not the subdivision of Hip Hop, not the 4th Branch, and not the 3rd World underground. I made the world a promise. I told people that on June 24ththe
    Green Light would be given. I know that people who believe in
    Revolution are naturally cynical. They expect their leaders to be
    flawless and almost take pride in finding the subtle or blatantly
    obvious hypocrisy in those they idolize. That is why I never wanted to
    be worshipped or followed blindly.
     
    I know it is hard to trust anyone and anything in this
    life, you feel better when you don’t because you feel like you are no
    longer as vulnerable. But I am a man of my word and I have never let
    other people’s insecurities and self-image dictate my course of action.
    I gave my word that there would be a serious mission on June 24th.
    Some of you just thought that was just the release of an album, which
    it is partly. But it is really so much more than that for me and for
    the eternal struggle.
     
    The time has come for me to announce the first stage
    of “Project Green Light.” It is the first stage of one of many projects
    but an important one that I will dedicate myself to completing. I am
    always contacted by different organizations who reach out to me
    personally and ask me to fight along side with them in their struggle.
    I have done so with immigrant groups, youth detention centers, with
    those organizing against police brutality, gang workshops, funding
    children’s hospitals in Palestine and of course our fight to try and
    preserve the South Central Farm. So once again I am here to answer the
    call of my brothers and sisters, whether it comes from across the
    street or across the ocean.
     
    I have decided to partner with a Non–Profit Human Rights Organization called Omeid International. (www.omeid.org)
    We will come together to build an orphanage/ clinic/ school in Kabul,
    Afghanistan for children who have been left without families because of
    the wars and diseases that have ravaged the land. It will be called
    “The Amin Institute.”
     
    – The
    orphanage section will house 20 children at first, from toddlers to
    ages 10, while the clinic will service the impoverished community
    surrounding it.
     
    – There
    will be caregivers there, widows, dedicated people that have witnessed
    the violence that has consumed the country since the Russian Invasion
    first hand.
     
    – There
    will also be a school the serves the area and will teach K through 5 to
    the children with certified teachers from here and Afghanistan. And we
    will also
    have the children work with therapists
    and psychologists to aid their undiagnosed post traumatic disorder that
    in many cases rivals that of veteran infantry troops.
     

    In every city in America we see homeless people. We have become numb
    and desensitized to it, as if it was an acceptable normality. We have
    standards around the world about using certain gasses or bombs on
    people and yet we have no standard, no right to NOT facing starvation
    or poverty. But if you travel to Africa, South America, South East Asia
    or The Middle East you will find something we are not used to seeing in
    America. Homeless children. The children in Afghanistan face
    starvation, death from disease being drafted into warring factions, and
    the disgusting child prostitution rings and human traffic of modern day
    slavery. I cannot change this throughout the world overnight, or I
    would, but I feel as if we have a good chance to start a small project
    in Afghanistan that we can build on. I pledge myself to this cause, to
    this Revolution.
     
    Pledge 1: I will participate in a gigantic Hip Hop
    fundraiser for the orphanage / clinic/ school to be known as ‘The Amin
    Institute’. I will reach out to those from New York, Atlanta, Chicago,
    LA, the Bay and anywhere else that Hip Hop has Underground and
    Mainstream Support so people that I hear talk the talk can join me in
    this fight to raise the funds and awareness necessary to complete the
    first phase of this program.
     
    Pledge 2: “Amin” the name of the institute literally
    means “trustworthy” in Arabic. It is an important word because it was
    one of the early nicknames of The Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him)
    even before he fathered Islam. I know people are scared to believe in
    anything as I said before, and regrettably there have been so many
    charlatans scamming their own people over the years. Therefore to show
    all that I am working closely and that I fully trust the partners that
    I have formed at Omeid International. I will pledge $10,000 of my own
    money into a foundation to support the cause.
     
    Pledge 3: We all have a destiny and I will see mine
    fulfilled. I will succeed or die trying. And that will come as my
    vision for this mission is completed. So, I pledge to personally travel
    to Afghanistan and see the completion of the project that I have
    decided to dedicate my time and effort to. Omeid after all, is the
    Farsi word for hope.
     
     
    This is not a Middle Eastern issue. It is
    not a Muslim issue. It is a Human Rights issue. And that is why I chose
    people who came to me with a blueprint, proposal and a passionate
    desire for real change. We throw that word around a lot, “change” and
    yet the war hasn’t ended…IT has just changed. There has always been an
    ulterior motive to our involvement anywhere as a nation and so OUR
    response to that will be motivated by selfless Revolutionary action. It
    will inter-relate our struggles because I have decided to also create a
    forum here on my networking site, so that you can all participate in
    Revolutionary action. This is after all something that will BEGIN in
    Afghanistan but spread all over the world as different stages are
    completed. People from all over the globe have been activated and are
    in motion.
     
    To some people this music is just entertainment, and
    even if it is that for many people, entertainment can inspire, it can
    brighten people, and it can feed their imagination. It can also pacify,
    it can placate and distract, it can shadow and mask real problems
    around us that we cannot see. But for me this is not about
    entertainment, it never has been it has always been a mechanism for
    delivering so much more. Hopefully by this time next year there will be
    a child in Afghanistan who knows NOTHING about Rap who doesn’t even
    know what an Immortal Technique is, and the money I have made off this
    music will be giving them a place to live and a chance to learn and
    rebuild their own nation instead of paying some US corporation
    trillions of tax payer dollars to do so after we destroyed it. Unless
    you’re brain dead and completely lost on the meaning of what our
    people’s spirit truly is there is no way shape or form to deny no
    matter what your taste in music is…THAT is Hip Hop. More so because I’m
    not a Hollywood actor making millions getting tax breaks, this was done
    with Underground Hip Hop money. That, in itself, is Revolutionary. This
    is not making music but it is an integral part of the struggle and one
    that must never be forgotten. It’s the foundation of the culture that
    we owe our identity to.
     
    I thank you for listening and I hope you will spread the word, support “The 3rd World” and of course donate to the cause at www.omeid.org so
    that we may expedite the coming of our combined strength. If I can
    succeed here it is a great sign, a sign that I can go to the most
    violent and distraught place in the world and triumph. That means that
    everywhere else I go, the Caribbean, Africa, South East Asia, Latin
    America and anywhere here in the states, that we can succeed.
     
     
    Con Amor de Revolucion.
     
    Immortal Technique
     
    P.S.
     
    I
    am not as worthy as those that have come before me, but greater men
    have achieved less and smarter men have accomplished nothing. I am no
    longer a Revolutionary Apprentice but a Young full fledged
    Revolutionary working towards maturing and strengthening his ideas.
    Learning from his failures and building on his success. There have been
    many rebels, leaders, and prophets that came before me and there will
    be others that come after me. None of these men were perfect, as they
    were human and man is naturally imperfect. But as they lived and died
    for what they believed in I will devote myself to the causes and the
    fights that I pick, not to champion religion or national pride, I seek
    no rewards or trophies that I leave to you, for me the fight is all.
    Read. Read. Read.”

    Immortal Technique‘s The 3rd World is in stores today.

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