Sell Outs

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Our powerful speaker, Marshata Caradine-Randall, speaks to the parents on a non scripted level.

So BLACKS know BLACKS are struggling but will have a face like they are supporting or uplifting BLACKS while they are struggling?

So BLACKS know BLACKS are served education malpractice but will work or turn the other way while they go to these inferior schools?

So BLACKS screaming to those in the BACK what others are or are not doing while living a double standard life?

So BLACKS make sure that THEIR children are getting a high-quality education?

So BLACKS make sure that THEIR children awake to beautification all around them?

So BLACKS make sure that THEIR children have some form of safety?

So BLACKS make sure that THEIR children have at their fingertips a plethora of opportunities?

So BLACKS make sure that THEIR children are inhaling clean air and will never be subjected to poisonous environments or climates?

So BLACKS make sure that THEIR children can live a little longer than ours?

So BLACKS as long as they are living comfortably and allowed to “be in the crowd” somehow we are supposed to believe that ALL is well, that ALL have our best interest, that ALL is for the family when in actuality those HOTEP, BUTTLICKING, UNCLE TOM ACTING, SMILING IN THE FACE BUT NOT CARING NEGROES don’t give a damn about the VERY community and students that assure their salaries and notes are paid.

Needless to say, NEVER ALL but too damn many!

So BLACKS see hunger and know children are served POVERTY because a great deal of the middle class rose up from these areas but detach and can careless about the maltreatment and malpractice in the name of “doing something for “you people” when clearly that is NOT the goal?

So BLACKS are going to sit back and have the world to believe that the zip code is the reason our children are acting in the most inhumane, ungodly and unjust manner without ever looking at the root, THE SYSTEM?

So BLACKS are going to sit back and watch our children be pushed into the criminal justice system do to the very LEGISLATIVE ills that are permitted by those who are wielding a pen?

In order for us to do well, WE MUST turn a blind eye and deaf ear so that our children and families can have a chance, so our children and families can have a better opportunity, so our children and families can have some form of dignity, so our children and families can have a “feel” of the American dream. When you are around the table having a “privileged” talk with your Brown and Black children and crying at night because YOU KNOW they are being subjected to injustice, inequality, and a level of dignity that you know is not to your standards.

WE KNOW AFRICAN AMERICANS raise their children to be respectable

WE KNOW AFRICAN AMERICANS raise their children to follow the law

WE KNOW AFRICAN AMERICANS raise their children to honor people

WE KNOW AFRICAN AMERICANS raise their children to treat people fairly

WE KNOW AFRICAN AMERICANS are some of the most compassionate, loyal, loving, honorable, inclusive, forgiving and relational people.

So, are we going to YET allow those to speak for us or are we going to finally realize that WE ARE THE MOST POWERFUL and stop allowing them to sell us out?

Who Will Cry for the Little Boy?

Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?

Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own?

Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep.

Who will cry for the little boy? Never had for keeps.

Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man.

Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain.

Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again.

Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be?

Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me? Antwon Q. Fisher

THIS SUBSTITUTE WILL!

It doesn’t matter what you tried to do, you couldn’t destroy me! I’m still standing! I’m still strong! And I always will be

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
― Assata Shakur