Jumping on my soapbox again.

I believe it’s time for a self revolution. When the black leaders of the past were killed our self awareness went away. The awareness that when someone looks at us or hears about us. What they are witnessing is not just an individual, but the entire black race. I know it shouldn’t be that way but that’s just the way the cookie crumbles. What happened to the pride that we as a people once had. I still have that pride. Some may think because my wife is Caucasian that means I hate my culture. Well sorry for the bad news but I love my blackness, but I also understand that I’m not just a black man, I am a black American. Back to the subject at hand, what happened to the flourishing communities of the 50s and 60s? Don’t worry I’ll wait. Don’t be so quick to answer that question though. I already know what some of the responses would be. “The government helped filter drugs into black neighborhoods”, “welfare helped create the fatherless home”, or as Chris Rock says “A nigga’s favorite answer is I don’t know”. Truth of the matter is yes the government might of filtered drugs into black neighborhoods, but our fellow black "brothers" chose to take those drugs and sell death to their own people. That in turn created an atmosphere of death, destruction and streets flooded with gangs and prostitution. Yes the rules surrounding welfare might of helped create fatherless homes, but the black man as individual chose to step away. You can’t substitute a check for a father. The government can’t change those diapers, instill values in that child or teach him how to treat a woman. The last two are part of the problem today. Young black boys are growing with no values. No sense of this is my community. It is not my job to destroy but to build it up so it may be better for latter generations. We also have too many young black men who think its “cool” to just have sex with as many women as they can without thinking about the consequences. That woman could get pregnant (or something worst could happen) and with you running off to the next it does nothing but repeat the fatherless cycle. Treat your woman, girlfriend or wife as god treats the church. God will never leave the church alone and he is always there when the church calls on him. No matter what time, day or night. God does not degrade the church or beat the church down. He uplifts it as it uplifts him. He protects it by embracing its presents and love. What ever happen to the value of education? Too many black males embrace this “not knowing” lifestyle. They stand on the corner everyday watching life pass by while listening to songs by minstrels who shuckle and jive to keep them in their current dumbfounded mindstate. WAKE UP!!! For us to live and die on a corner or prison was never part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream. He and our forefathers marched for us to be able to sit in a classroom and have an equal playing field when it comes to education and employment. But it seems too many black males rather rot on a corner while their mind’s blows away in marijuana smoke. Some may think they have no dreams or aspirations, they do. They dream of being one those minstrels they listen to all day and night.Yes I called them minstrels. Most entertainers today are nothing, but caricatures of stereotypes. The are the embodiment of all things degrading but I guess thats how it goes when your all about the almighty dollar.

Sorry it got so long. Just had something to get off my mind.