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I am not old enough to remember the civil rights movement and the time where black people fought and died to be seen as equals but from the account of history, I can clearly see the suffering the generations before went through.
As a black man living in this world today, I am sickened to see the way the young generation has forgotten this struggle and have subsequently adopted a lifestyle that totally contradicts the message generations before us were trying to spread.
Many people blame the appalling situation a lot of black people find themselves on the oppressive white nation but when are we going to start taking responsibility for our own lives and destiny ……
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Posted by digistudio on 2007-09-21 14:05:18 | Rating: | Views: 128
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I'm apart of todays youth and I feel the falling the the black communities have no blame to push except one on thier selves. I feel alot of us could do a whole lot better. When I was in high school I didn't really like what I saw, so I try to change that by sitting on the leadership team we had so I can try and make a difference. Alot of the things that young black youth do today I don't agree with. I think it's okay to listen to hip hop and rap and what not as long as you are open- minded about other music and you understand the rights and wrongs of the music. Plus I don't like to see a guy sag it's just disgusting, it shows you have no kind of respect what so ever. We as black people need to take control and take better care of ourselves and others.
♥ Camille
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Posted by Stickyicky
on 2007-09-21 14:17:26
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Among many other complex variables lies the magnitude of power;how much of it do we posess ouselves individually and own collectively on a whole.I'm not suggesting we point the finger at the power structures that be but you cannot undo years of oppression and mental colonization all by oneself or expected to overnight.There has to be remodifications and remedies in play and I'm afraid with the Prison Industrial Complex incarcerating 100 Black men for every one balck male graduate being what it is today(read David Cole & Marc Mauer) and the way Brown Vs.Board Of Education being recently rescinded,it doesn't leave much room for hope.There is a dark cloud looming over the lives of every day common folk of color & it's way bigger than what you see on tv or hear on your ipods.It's not looking good and we expect further regression before any step in progression.
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Posted by
on 2007-09-21 16:11:42
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I absolutely agree with you on the point that one cannot undo generations of oppression at the flick of a switch. But I can only speak from the environment I know and love which is the inner city of London. It is true that more black people are incarcerated than graduate from university but to that I say this. What are the reasons? These people are not entirely innocent and if you haven’t done anything wrong, I seriously believe that you have nothing to be afraid of.
It is true that as a black person living in the west, one is more likely to be stopped by the police when driving. But if you have bags of weed in your car, what is the likely outcome?
I walk around sometimes and listen to the language used by some of are youths today. How do you expect to get a job? How do u expect to be taken seriously in the difficult society that we find ourselves when you drop out of school and join gangs for street cred. I appreciate that I cannot tarnish everyone with the same brush. Not everyone who drops out had a choice and other circumstances do but come into play.
What pains me the most is the way I am treated by other black people because I chose to educate myself, have a good job, move out of the area and somehow I became a sell out. A SELL OUT TO WHAT? ……….
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Posted by digistudio
on 2007-10-06 12:35:54
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My cousins use to ridicule me cause I talked in soemways "proper". They use to ask me why do I talk like that or act the way I act. They would make all kinds of jokes and stuff, but I tell them that I don't think I talk funny or diffrent, it's just that I choose to take the high road and learn to speak in a way that isn't offensive.
Many people think I'm different cause I don't live in a rough neighborhood anymore or in another sense as you said " a sell out", well all I can do is congradulate my parents for moving to the suburbs and providing me with everything I needed, especially a good education. They worked hard to get me where I am and so it' my turn to do the same for my future children.
Why do people think it's okay to be a black person and ghetto and uneducated. I don't think that is the only way of life.
For istance I had a discussion with my niece the other day and mind you she is ten, she' really started to get influenced by her peers and the media and she's starting to talk as if she not educated at all; well I asked her what's the difference between the way a white person talk and a black person and she stated that a white person talks proper and black person talks all ghetto. I told there is no real difference in the way the two peple talk if you don't allow. Your getting very nice education and there is no reason for you talk like that.
I think at this rate we might as well go and spit every black persons grave who's ever try to better the future we live in, cause at the rate that we're going, white people are going to dominate over the black culture. I'm not saying we shouldn't work together, but it seems like we're going in reverse and not forward.
Hey all I can do is my best and do whay I have to do to succeed.
♥ Stickyicky
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Posted by Stickyicky
on 2008-02-13 09:51:56
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