Thinking
randomly today...
not so quietly, nor mostly to myself...
It was my generation that screwed up. The generation before us got a whiff of what they called "upward mobility", and by allowing us to go to "ivy league schools" and experience affirmative action, we "moved on up to the big leagues". Unfortunately, we lost the concept that we had grown on since slavery... that we needed to look out for one another and help one another. Just as slave mothers and fathers looked out for whatever children were left "after the sale", we needed to keep looking out. With the help of "them" demonizing the drug culture and sending young strong Black men to jail, sometimes for NOTHING more than smoking a little weed, we moved into their gated communities, where we were not wanted nor accepted, where our "neighbors" didn't know our names and wouldn't allow us to know theirs because they were teaching HATE in their houses while we were trying to teach love in ours... but we had cut off Grandma and the cousins because they still lived in the "hood" and we had no family reinforcement. We started to worship money, brag about the high-priced, low quality stuff we could buy, and shame folks who couldn't afford what we could. We worked like DOGS to make that money and dared Black men to quit jobs where they were being disrespected by calling them dead-beats, especially when it came to paying astronomically stupid child support set up by government agencies that were already making us pay more and higher taxes than our "neighbors." We allowed child support enforcement to take men to court for "getting behind", taking away their driver's licenses so they couldn't work, telling them that they should take jobs "flipping burgers" to make money to "catch up", knowing they never would be able to. MY GENERATION let that happen, and taught "feminist" women to say they didn't "need a man"... when Black women have never needed to be feminists... We women messed up by taking femininity out of our own 'equation"... when we should have been adding "wifely." We won in the boardrooms but started denying satisfaction in the bedrooms. We men and women, made it necessary to take our children back, when we shouldn't have let them go in the first place. We expected "integrated schools" to help raise our kids, when those we were integrated with had no intention of raising theirs... They care more about their PETS than they care about their kids, and they prove it by opposing gun control while it is THEIR KIDS who keep getting shot up in school shootings. I will stop preaching now... but there is so much more I could say!!
not so quietly, nor mostly to myself...
It was my generation that screwed up. The generation before us got a whiff of what they called "upward mobility", and by allowing us to go to "ivy league schools" and experience affirmative action, we "moved on up to the big leagues". Unfortunately, we lost the concept that we had grown on since slavery... that we needed to look out for one another and help one another. Just as slave mothers and fathers looked out for whatever children were left "after the sale", we needed to keep looking out. With the help of "them" demonizing the drug culture and sending young strong Black men to jail, sometimes for NOTHING more than smoking a little weed, we moved into their gated communities, where we were not wanted nor accepted, where our "neighbors" didn't know our names and wouldn't allow us to know theirs because they were teaching HATE in their houses while we were trying to teach love in ours... but we had cut off Grandma and the cousins because they still lived in the "hood" and we had no family reinforcement. We started to worship money, brag about the high-priced, low quality stuff we could buy, and shame folks who couldn't afford what we could. We worked like DOGS to make that money and dared Black men to quit jobs where they were being disrespected by calling them dead-beats, especially when it came to paying astronomically stupid child support set up by government agencies that were already making us pay more and higher taxes than our "neighbors." We allowed child support enforcement to take men to court for "getting behind", taking away their driver's licenses so they couldn't work, telling them that they should take jobs "flipping burgers" to make money to "catch up", knowing they never would be able to. MY GENERATION let that happen, and taught "feminist" women to say they didn't "need a man"... when Black women have never needed to be feminists... We women messed up by taking femininity out of our own 'equation"... when we should have been adding "wifely." We won in the boardrooms but started denying satisfaction in the bedrooms. We men and women, made it necessary to take our children back, when we shouldn't have let them go in the first place. We expected "integrated schools" to help raise our kids, when those we were integrated with had no intention of raising theirs... They care more about their PETS than they care about their kids, and they prove it by opposing gun control while it is THEIR KIDS who keep getting shot up in school shootings. I will stop preaching now... but there is so much more I could say!!
You don't
see Black kids shooting up schools... instead you see Black kids getting sent
home, suspended from their "Christian schools" (what a laugh) because
their hair is deemed "inappropriate" the way it grows out of their
heads, and getting reprimanded for saying "yes ma'am"... for HAVING MANNERS!!
Black schools don't get shot up because WE only kill people we're mad at... and
unfortunately a few who happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. They
don't go in inner city schools with guns because they'd get beat down or shot
by guns bigger than theirs because our SURVIVAL INSTINCT kicks in and we
protect our own. Even weakened as we have been by their influences, shamed and
bullied by them because they are jealous of how beautiful we are, and allowing
our children to commit suicide because they don't know how beautiful WE are,
but they ought to know because every style they have adapted and adopted has
been OUR STYLE. We encourage our kids to go to college, even when we know that
some don't belong there (there is PRIDE in being a great plumber, electrician,
bricklayer... and we OWE THEM RESPECT) and we set them up for failure in a big
way. We allow our girls to place more value in fake hair and out of control
bodies (big butts and fake boobs) than they place in strong minds, high ideals,
and helping to encourage and assist our "boys" in becoming STRONG MEN.
We allow
our girls to settle for "sharing men" because that's what white women
have been doing all along... they let their men make slave babies right under
their noses and didn't say anything about them spending their money to buy the
slaves they made babies with. We have young Black people talking smack about
being "mixed" and being all confused when we all know we need not be
confused...one drop of Black blood makes you BLACK!! We have people using us
(have you noticed how many commercials have "mixed" couples... more
with the man being white thanks to Prince Harry) because they know we spend
money, and more and more, our economic value to them is being reinforced. We
know that they might be upset with Black Lives Matter, but they know that it is
TRUE... they NEED us. They need us to work, vote, spend, CONTROL... because
that fool that they support is so out of control he's gonna get us all killed.
It is time for MY GENERATION... the BOOMERS... to do something to fix what we
messed up. Although we are thinking it's time to retire and sit back, we have
two generations of young people that are playing "catch up" in the
COMMON SENSE and GOOD MANNERS arena. We messed up... Now, we need to FIX IT!!
