So in my previous blog I posted a piece that I had actually written maybe 4 years ago. The point of it was that there is soooooo much going on in the world around us today that we really shouldnt weigh ourselves down with petty bullshit. And the example of 'light skin girls Vs. dark skin girls' was what I chose to illustrate this b/c that dumb shit usta be the topic of conversations I remember hearing around the way as I was coming up. If that aint the most dumbest, asinine, pettiest shit ever!!! But I'll be damned if mugs didnt miss point completely and actually wonder aloud which I liked more!?!?!!?!?
"We gotta get deeper and not be so shallow" - Angel Grant "Deeper"
Maybe Im just on one b/c I have Angela in my care now and Im just extra sensitive to bullshit going on around me at the moment. Nah...actually I've always been quite aware of things. If anything Angela just upped my shit that much more.
Of course we all know and have heard of the 2 teenage boys in Texas giving the 2 toddlers weed b/c it's been alllllllll over the news. But did you hear about the 21 year old woman in Oskaloosa, Iowa that gave her 20 month old cocaine? (http://www.ktvotv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=6201849&nav=1LFs) Now granted she didnt make a videotape of it, but still I watch the news regularly. I woulda thought I woulda heard or seen that story on the news. Do you know where I first heard the story? http://www.allhiphop.com/rumors/ . Aint that about a bitch?!?! It didnt get as much publicity. Not sure why.
Another item in the news that caught my attention was the story of 15 year old Shaquanda Cotton. She's a black teenager in Paris, Texas that was sentenced to 7 years in a youth prison for shoving a hall monitor at her high school. No prior offenses. No long history of disciplinary problems, but 7 years! What's fucked up is the very same judge that gave her 7 years presided over a case 3 months earlier in which a 14 year old white girl was convicted of arson for burning her family's house down and he gave her probation? WTF?
Open ya eyes yall. It aint as sweet as we thought. I know we got it better than our parents and their parents before them and the such, but it still aint sweet. The playing field still aint leveled. I think PE said 'There's a poison going on'.
Be alert.
Be aware.
Beware.
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This is NOTHING but the truth T...racism is STILL very much alive...WE are the generation that has to make a difference...and that means empowering ourselves through education and economics so that we can empower those behind us...THOSE of us who "get it" we need to constantly give back, talk to those coming up, encourage them to achieve and fight against the "system" through educating themselves and being aware...
We gotta keep talking about stuff like this, we HAVE to keep educating ourselves, our peers, and future generations so that they can do better than us...
its really rough out here, and so many other things that are important that "light v. dark"
SO MUCH MORE TO LIFE
you're so right...i think about these things all the time, and i actually have conversations like this daily with my peers..and with myself to keep things in prospective. i think people are just fucked up..sorry to be so blunt but i'm honest, what are you gonna do? everyday, any one of "us" (i REFUSE to say minority...nothing about us as a people is minor) runs the risk of getting the short end of the stick from others. sure we have to be accountable for our own actions, but there is like a prerequisite to being black...respect for us is not given it still must be earned even today post civil rights movement.that's why that light- dark issue is so bullish. and don't ever get it twisted...white folks "tolerate" black people...and not in the "we might as well get used to em they ain't leavin'" sense...in the "just as soon as this n*g**r acts up i'll put em back in their place" sense. your examples of injustice prove my point believe me. i wrote a lot:) at any rate...that was a good point you brought up!!
Stay balanced. Try to delve too much into the negative, but as you sat stay aware. Hold on to your highs. Not literally. lol.
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