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"WILL YOU IGNORANT NIGGERS PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP?' |
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Aaron You've ******** done it again.
First I should say that, this is in no way true of everyone, and that I certainly don't mean to make that statement. Blanket statements are wrong.
After 3 decades, we have forgotten. We have become complacent and bourgeois, and with weak leader and dead heroes many of us have once again become the happy sambo.
For too long have we allowed oursleves to ponder on the stereotypes that we are shiftless, that we are lazy, and that we are ignorant. I ask my people, are we blind to what we support? Do we not see the memories , the work of our ancestors? We have created for ourselves a mediocrity that we accept and a belief in those stereotypes. Too often I have heard my own people saying that racism does not exist. That we have reached the pinnacle, the mountaintop, that we as people are equal. Too often have I heard my people say that we are not equal, that we are handicapped, that we our being held back by "the man."
We as a people need to see the truth. Neither of these are true. Yes there is an infrastructure in our native country, that causes us to "die foreign" more often than not, never truly seeing those things promised to all men. Assata once said that she knows less what freedom is, and more what freedom isn't, and it's true. We are slaves still, but not to the white man, or to the government, we are slaves to our own self pity.
Yes we are more free than we have ever been, but we are not truly free, and racism still exists, but until we as a people make the conscious effort to deny the infrastructure its power we've no right to complain.
Turn off the degrading music, and if you love the beat buy the instrumental, listen to what your favorite artist has been saying to you these past years. Realize what BET is saying to you when they refuse to play a music video which they consider too intelligent for it's viewers.
We should never give up, never wait for someone else to do what we ourselves can. Read, and write, and pass on your objections, complain, but with respect and reverence to the possibility of a solution. Do your BEST. Support yourself, give love to yourself, and hope to your people. Maybe we've forgotten, and maybe we've just become a little apathetic, but we don't need to get angry, we just need to stay concerned.
Now That's What's Up
Rest in Peace, Martin L. King Jr.
Rest in Peace, Minister Shabazz
Rest in Peace Fred Hampton
Blessings to Assata Shakur
Forget we not the workings of our heroes, and predecessors.
Caz_Nova · Tue Jan 17, 2006 @ 05:31am · 2 Comments |
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