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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