Segregation Now, Segregation Forever
July 6th 2008 21:51
Segregation was the staple that kept the community of color intact. Blacks seemed to have lost so much in the pursuit of the Civil Rights era. There is no disrespect to those who gave all that they could, and had to the movement that now allows me to write this blog. I am free because someone in my family, and others thought enough of themselves, and their children to lay down their lives. They gave up their futures to make it so that I can protest what now seems to be a system where people of color continue to lose. We continue to lose because we have yet to figure out how to curve the bell to our benefit, and make it so we re-write the rules of the game so that we may win. In our pursuit we confused wanting to be free with wanting to be white. I say that to mean we realized with the end if segregation that we could now go to their schools, invest in their banks, move into their neighborhoods, marry their daughters and sons, and we now could say we have ARRIVED!!! Instead of working with white folks, and building up the communities we already lived in, we joined theirs, even though we were not wanted. The very fabric of what made this community of color so strong was what then had to suffer the most in order for us to be free. Our teachers, our doctors, lawyers, morticians, and ministers moved out into the suburbs, leaving our cleaning women, our janitors, factory workers, our everyday hardworking person of color alone to struggle. Our neighborhoods struggled, our children lost, our community suffered. Where then were the success stories for our children? And now our elite class complains that our young men are going to jail at alarming rtaes and our women are raising children in single parent homes. Who then would they look to when their parents told them they could be anything? We chased the American white dream, the picket fence, the suburbs, the big money. The game was not constructed for people of color to play it, its rules need to be re-written, the way we teach our children, how we fight for our rights, what is and isn't practical in this nation when we address race. We have pursued the right to own big homes, with manicured lawns, and drive big luxury cars, and flat screen televisions while our brethren falter in an educational and judicial system that is failing children, and crucifying young lives. We complain about how ignorant the niggers in the ghetto are but we have taken the all too familiar helpful hand that our grandmothers, and grandfathers extended so we could watch Flavor of Love on our LCD's. We have separated ourselves, and salute the God of this nation; currency. Our basketball players and rap stars flaunt diamonds in the mouth like oral b presents floss, flaunt flashy jewelry and hide behind artistic license, flaunt numerous cars even though they can only drive one at a time. Our children think these modern day minstrel show actors are the role models and what is real. We celebrate rap stars who when they speak murder the english language and cannot properly express themselves without taglines. We celebrate mediocrity like it is part of our culture, how dare a child of color strive to be intelligent, that is associated with trying to be white, how dare we stress education because Kaseem is going to be the next Michael Jordan or Lebron James. And our middle class, our upper class, and wealthy bretheren have become so comfortable they have forgotten about the tradition that has gotten them where they are. We complain and do not even realize we are the problem, rich and poor, we fall down together. So to all of our intellectuals who think we should line up the ghetto bunnies along the wall and shoot them ask yourself who did you help today? Which hand did you use to reach down into the pit and throw someone a lifeline? Because without that lifeline you the intellectual would be that ghetto bunny.
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