Poetry • Senior
English major Obi Adisa Asad delivers
a poem at the Evening of Human Rights,
Wednesday. Katie Plourd / Online Forty-Niner
MSA
hosts human rights awareness forum
By
Candice Jacobson
Online Forty-Niner
Contributing Writer
Obi Adisa Asad, senior English major, read the defined Zionism as “an
organized movement of world Jewry that arose in Europe in the late 19th century
with the aim of reconstituting a Jewish state in Palestine,” during the
Evening of Human Rights Awareness put on by the Muslim Student Association
Wednesday at the Southwest Terrace.
The event was put on to educate people through spoken word, poetry, and music
on the current situations in Palestine, Venezuela, Iraq and Darfur. Asad read
his poems, “That’s Gangsta,” “Day in the Life” and “Uphill
Battle.”
“
We don’t want to tell students what to think,” Asad said. “There
are things going on in the world that I believe are purposely kept from us.
This is not political. We don’t want to tell people what to think,
but we want them to leave thinking,” he said.
Mark Gonzales, accompanied by artists Jade Ross and SKIM also performed.
“
I wanted to address the things I feel are injustices that exist, whether it
be color, size, or religion,” SKIM said.
If I can start to alter the geography of imagination, it can change the train
of reality, Gonzales said.
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