(Guerillas Josh Childress and Jannero Pargo patiently wait for their new leader's arrival)The move will either breathe new life into AI's anti-establishment doctrine or it will be as ill-fated as Che's efforts to revolutionize Bolivia as a foreign freedom fighter.
If AI brings "El Amor" to the fountainhead of Western civilization, then one could argue he will be taking the voice of hip hop directly to the country where the dominoes, that enslaved and colonized Africa, were aligned. Now, of course, that would all be very symbolic to the historian and social critic, the creators of propaganda, but for AI, a true revolutionary, it would simply be living "El Amor;" after all, when asked how it felt to be a symbol, Che Guevara responded, "A symbol of what?"
A symbol does not decide to be a symbol. The symbol just lives and does according to the moment. The symbol also can not control how others see it. If Iverson Guevara does leave for Greece, then some will view his journey across the Atlantic as a journey into exile and as testimony that he could not adapt his basketball skills and ego to old age and the demands of team basketball. Still, others will choose to see the journey as a freedom march, made by a man who never compromised and would not change for anything, or anyone, no matter how much his surroundings suggested that his survival demanded he make adjustments. Many people admire stubbornness, but even a domino that refuses to fall gives way to gravity.
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