America...
We, as Americans are being fed bullshit every second of our lives. We, as Americans, know we are being fed bullshit every second of our lives. We, as Americans, are tried of being fed bullshit....But yet we do nothing about it? Why?
If you reading this, more than likely you didn't listen/turned the channel when you saw our President walk his way to the podium tonight. I for one, made myself a drink, tried to listen to what he had to say and ended up in my blog. But i'm not here to discuss Bush and all his failures. I'm not here to debate on if he knew about some of the events of his presidenty before they happened. I'm not here to debate if he was a good President or not, i'm here to discuss America...and how we have crumbled.
You can see it in the different generations of America, your grandparents, mother, father, sister, brother. Today, you can joke with a white co-worker about events in the past. You can honestly say that a white person has never called you a "nigger" to your face. You can't relate to your elders about "Black Power" and the movement that followed. Sure, you can read it in a history book, find all the major players in the game and read the street signs that honor their heroism, but thats all we (as a current generation) will ever know. If you ask any black person who is a key figure for how they got here today, they will tell you "Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, the Black Panthers, etc." If you skip ahead 20 years in the future, how would you answer that question? Al Sharpton? Jesse Jackson? Judge Joe Brown???
The black community has failed. We got to a point where society accepted us and quit our fight. I'm not saying that we should rebel against any race, creed or culture; I am merely trying to say that our fight hasn't even begun. Sure, we can ride anywhere on the bus, go to any school, and get any job; any job but the most powerful one in the United States. Its always a thought, "What if he had a black president?"; same for the female gender. Honestly, until we reach that goal, we haven't capture the dream Martin Luther King had. We might be the majority in 20 years, but less of us vote. We might have the numbers, but less of us are educated. We might have the strength, but most of us will fall. The reason why?
We have begun a new fight, a fight that threatens only us. Don't believe me? Turn on channel 5 news, NBC4, News Channel 8. I will put money that a brother has died from drugs, guns, gangs or an accidental stray bullet. We are killing each other, and then have the nerve to question another man's "hustle". 30-40 years ago we were united, and now, divide to the point where we don't assoicate with people who you don't know. We are either educated in books or the street; on the hustle or on the grind, getting paid or just getting by.
Our parents and grandparents worked hard for us to even get to the point where we are now, but what have WE done to carry the torch to our future seeds? Today's world, its NOT all about getting the big pay check, anyone can become a CEO; its not that hard. But to have a story to tell, values to lay down and a guideline of life is something that is hard to grasp. For me, its hard as well. I am educated, but it pains me to see how American view us. The hurricane has further opened MANY people's eyes to that. But will WE have the courage to step up and say something (Thanks Kanye West) or will we sit idle and continue to wallow in the current and not stride for a better future for us?
America, home of the free and the brave. Lets make America home.....
If you reading this, more than likely you didn't listen/turned the channel when you saw our President walk his way to the podium tonight. I for one, made myself a drink, tried to listen to what he had to say and ended up in my blog. But i'm not here to discuss Bush and all his failures. I'm not here to debate on if he knew about some of the events of his presidenty before they happened. I'm not here to debate if he was a good President or not, i'm here to discuss America...and how we have crumbled.
You can see it in the different generations of America, your grandparents, mother, father, sister, brother. Today, you can joke with a white co-worker about events in the past. You can honestly say that a white person has never called you a "nigger" to your face. You can't relate to your elders about "Black Power" and the movement that followed. Sure, you can read it in a history book, find all the major players in the game and read the street signs that honor their heroism, but thats all we (as a current generation) will ever know. If you ask any black person who is a key figure for how they got here today, they will tell you "Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, the Black Panthers, etc." If you skip ahead 20 years in the future, how would you answer that question? Al Sharpton? Jesse Jackson? Judge Joe Brown???
The black community has failed. We got to a point where society accepted us and quit our fight. I'm not saying that we should rebel against any race, creed or culture; I am merely trying to say that our fight hasn't even begun. Sure, we can ride anywhere on the bus, go to any school, and get any job; any job but the most powerful one in the United States. Its always a thought, "What if he had a black president?"; same for the female gender. Honestly, until we reach that goal, we haven't capture the dream Martin Luther King had. We might be the majority in 20 years, but less of us vote. We might have the numbers, but less of us are educated. We might have the strength, but most of us will fall. The reason why?
We have begun a new fight, a fight that threatens only us. Don't believe me? Turn on channel 5 news, NBC4, News Channel 8. I will put money that a brother has died from drugs, guns, gangs or an accidental stray bullet. We are killing each other, and then have the nerve to question another man's "hustle". 30-40 years ago we were united, and now, divide to the point where we don't assoicate with people who you don't know. We are either educated in books or the street; on the hustle or on the grind, getting paid or just getting by.
Our parents and grandparents worked hard for us to even get to the point where we are now, but what have WE done to carry the torch to our future seeds? Today's world, its NOT all about getting the big pay check, anyone can become a CEO; its not that hard. But to have a story to tell, values to lay down and a guideline of life is something that is hard to grasp. For me, its hard as well. I am educated, but it pains me to see how American view us. The hurricane has further opened MANY people's eyes to that. But will WE have the courage to step up and say something (Thanks Kanye West) or will we sit idle and continue to wallow in the current and not stride for a better future for us?
America, home of the free and the brave. Lets make America home.....
posted by BMass at 21:36
1 Comments:
Speak on it! I share alot of your same sentiments, I think alot of times in this day and age we really aren't galvanized in the same manner against one singular oppression. In fact, even in the civil rights movement, there were PLENTY of Blacks that did not agree with the tactics of MLK and others. Plenty were happy with the status quo. Now fast forward to today, there is a sizable African-American (you like how I changed from Black to African-American as a changing of the times) that are very comfortable with the status quo and feel as if the problems facing African-Americans, are members of our race but "not our kind of people". So there is a distance.
Unfortunately it seems that only in times of tragedy do we as African-Americans come together and present a semi-united front.
...Just my thoughts.
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