My people, people of color, people of culture, people of life, have become constricted and content with our state of being. It baffles me how we can vote for change across the nation, yet we cannot take the same interest in changing our community. As we continue to disrespect each other with our words and actions, WE as a people need to recognize that we are still fighting a battle, after winning the war. The time to sit on the sideline, drinking Gatorade, and recovering from the last few plays is over! We cannot continue to sit back and watch the world go by as we continue to down the path of destruction. Looking back on the history of our people, it has been quite easy to bamboozle us into believing what we see, hear, and read without any prior knowledge; nor do we investigate/question the information that has been provided. We are in a mindset that will continue to send us in a deleterious downward spiral unless WE do something about it! My people we must cease with this lack of encouragement and pull ourselves out of the rut that we are in, we must continue to fight for ourselves in order for our children's children to be able to survive in this world. We must understand that just because we can walk into restaurants, grocery stores, and bathrooms without being hassled does not mean we have made it as a people. The western culture has us brain washed from the day we are born until the day we decide that we can no longer go off of surmise-able information! For instance most of our parents told us that Christmas presents come from a jolly fat white man (Saint Nick) and that he, along with Jesus, are the reason for the season. We were fooled by thinking that the man in the mall dressed up in a red suit and seemingly factious beard was the man bringing us everything we wanted, when in actuality it was our relatives. We are conditioned to believe what is told to us is law and instead of questioning what is being told, we would rather sit back and act as children would. When will we as a people grow up into adulthood? When will we realize that our nation is still divided, our schools are still segregated, and the BLACK community has been turned into a permanent under class?? We are blinded by the bling and all types of material things such as rims, flashy cars, and money, yet we cannot afford a quality education, quality housing, nor do we take pride in ownership. The black community was built to uplift the people that thrived within it, not to sell drugs, beat our women, promote violence, and tear it down with our own foolish shenanigans. It's remarkable that other cultures that thrive in America have quaint names like 'Little Italy', 'Chinatown', 'Little Havana' etc. but our communities are perceived as slums and ghettos. When are we going to take pride in ourselves, our culture, our heritage?! The founders of the America built this country off of our ideologies, our works, and our FEAR. Our ignorance and lack of passion to find out the truth is the reason why whites are going to the Egyptian pyramids and painting the black faces that were carved into the walls white. This is how they are able to say that white's were prevalent in history before a black person even came into play, they control us with their religion and shun us against our own. Our niggerish mindset is why we walk around calling each other niggas, dogs (dawg), and desecrating ourselves just because one has on blue and the other red. See white people don't have to hold us down, we do that for them. They promote these actions on tv and we are like mindless puppets who sit back and reinforce the behaviors. My people it is time that we take our community back, enough is enough! We can not progress as a people if we fail to realize that we are not in trouble. Who is our modern day MLK, Malcom X, Jessie Jackson, Rosa Parks???? WE would rather watch someone who throws a football or dribble a basketball every Sunday than go vote once every year on a Tuesday. Our community is facing troubled waters and our boat is beginning to sink a rapid rate, the time to save ourselves is NOW! Let us not wait until the ship has sunk to devise a plan of action.
peace&blessings,
The Corner
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