I remember a generation

I remember a generation silenced by drugs to shut down their minds. Not able to make a stand because addiction declined. But before the addiction they were in the face of the man that opposed their beliefs. They were strong in their feelings and very clear about their needs. They organized, they protested, they purchased guns to secure their stance. They did what was needed and their opposers never stood a chance. It wasn't until someone on the inside changed, they were able to be taken down. Lots of people lost their lives and others had to leave town. Drugs came in and took away what was left shutting the whole movement down. It wasn't the mole that did it, what were they suppose to do? It was the self distribution that happened during the taste of that first drug. I've seen it and I've read it and I'm amazed at how it all got stopped. They captured the mind and the plans to rebel, stopped. They got ahold of the strong man and took the whole thing down. And the ones that never helped, continued to sit around.  Secretly wanting freedom but afraid to speak. Afraid to do anything, not even whisper a peep. They only voice they'd give was to criticize. Maybe because they had no clue on how to organize. Organize using what ever skill they had, too worried about being like everyone else and then feeling mad, that they couldn't contribute because they couldn't do what the one with the big voice could. Letting the drugs come in and take our neighborhoods.

Now here we are again a new generation with no change. Fighting the same issues day after day. Fighting the cause and the ignorance of people who don't care to understand. Combating your feelings with ridiculous demands. Demanding that you not love and care for yourself because it's offensive to them. Taking your desire to be safe and free as a direct hit againts them. But I guess it is because it is their freedom they lose. Wow! I never thought of it that way. But if you get what you want they have to change the way they treat you and it will no longer be legal to, kill you, rob you and do whatever privilege do. The playing field evens and they too can be looked at as the bad guy. No more smoking mirrors, no more hiding with a disguise. No more excuses, no more passes to give. No more walking the picket lines, toting the picket signs fighting the unresolved. No more systematic laws created not for your benefit but for the control of you. No more keeping you from your independence and whatever you were born to do. Learning from generations pass and keeping your mind clear. Doing what you can in your atmosphere. We all have something we can contribute, even if it's a great idea. We can use our profession, whatever that might be. Get some laws changed, gain some new possibilities.

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Just thinking about the police

Just thinking about the police and wondering what it must be like to be a black cop. Torn between being black and blue during a time the country is divided over a color you can take off and a color you can't take off. Having the protection of being an officer while at work but finding himself uncovered when he's off duty. I've heard about black officers on duty in plain clothes and off duty in plain clothes being "mistaken for" or "fitting the description of" other black men in the area who happened to be labeled as criminals even though they've done nothing wrong. Either way, the danger for their lives are real. It must be exhausting, the mental fight that goes on in an officers mind to know the truth about black people and following company policy and protocol if what the officers who blew the whistle said was true.

Just thinking about the police and a spirited debate with some white people related to my niece in law over race in this country and their disappointment in Beyoncé's 2016 Super Bowl halftime show and her tribute to the Black Panther Party. One of the women tried to make her point of how bad we blacks are by letting me know that they are taught to look out for black men and trained that black men are looking to kill them just because they are cops. Well, if this is true, their police department has done them a disservice by teaching them that black men are their #1 threat when they are not. Plenty of white men kill cops. Plenty of men from other races kill cops as well. Believing otherwise will put a cop in danger. While he is watching the smoke from the magic trick / being distracted by lies, a white man can sneak up on him and kill him. You know why? He's not considered a danger to cops until he is actually a danger to cops yet he still get to walk away with his life.

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Let's do something different this time

Alright everybody. Let's do something different this time. Please everybody, please don't be asking where Al and Jessie nem at. Where you at? That's a better question. I don't know what to do in this situation like most of you and it baffels me as well but I do know that these men cannot continue to be the only ones called on. If they come folks are mad and if they don't come folks are mad. What are they supposed to do? And what can they do that we can't? We don't have the luxury of sitting around waiting for somebody to do anything for us. We just don't. Therefore, we need to stop acting as if we do.

I watched a video this morning of Malcolm X giving a speach about police brutality and the black man and what he said sounded like modern-day times. His speech was so relevant it made me wonder what is it that we need to do differently because it seems like what we have done so far hasn't completely worked. I have a few thoughts I'd like to contribute. I'm not saying these will work but they are some things I have observed and considered when racial tension is on my mind.

● The white man did not create you. Your conception and his happened the exact same way and needed the exact same materials to reproduce. The birthing process is the same and so is the fact that they too will die and need to be burried. That levels the playing field as human beings.

● The white man is not your creator so stop acting like he is. Withdraw your energy from all of that and stand up in your birthright. He does not control the reason you were born, your purpose, your passion or anything concerning the greater good of you. God (or whatever you want to call it) is the reason for all of that.

● Yes there are some sysyems put in to place to do everything it's doing but we can't focus on that any more. Yes let's be aware that they are there and do all we can to avoid the traps but the reality is, we have to change. Not as a group but as individuals. We have to stop allowing ourselves to be clumped together as if we don't have the right to be individuals. We don't have to all think the same or feel the same way or come up with the same conclusion. We can respond to life in a way that's natural for us as individuals and bring those individual responses together to form a collective group.

● Quit begging. Quit begging them to "stop killing us" with their guns. It doesn't work and their answer will always be "NO".

●  Quit picking and chosing which part of this system you are willing to tolerate. If it's not okay for them to kill us with their guns, it should not be okay for them to kill us with the drugs they brought in to our community, kill us with the lack of resources, kill us with a lack of education, kill us with unemployment, kill us with the lack of health care, kill us with _________ (fill in the blank)...

●  Quit begging for more jobs and more police in our neighborhoods as a solution to black problems. We don't need that. We are all are smart enough to be our own solutions and create our own jobs if we need to. We don't need to be micro-managed or any kind of managed by anyone besides ourselves. Ice Cube said it best, "check yo self before you wreck yo self".

● And lastly, quit teaching our kids to whine, piss and moan about this race business. That doesn't work. Quit teaching them to get highly skilled and educated to work for someone else, quit teaching them that success is in our outter appearance only, quit teaching them to be renters and how to go hard for somebody elses property, quit teaching them to work hard to build somebody elses dream with nothing to show for them selves (does this part sound familliar?), quit teaching them how to go to work every day to a job you hate and quit teaching them everything you have been taught that you know is wrong and ineffective and passing it as something we have to teah our children.

Stop cycling bad information from generation to generation and let's examine ourselves. Let us search ourselves for the piece of the solution we possess so that we can get together with other people who have found their piece of the solution and do whatever needs to be done.

I wish peace, love and safety upon you all. Thanks for taking the time to read this and please share this with your peeps. Arla

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