The quote placed in the title is the misnomer, my friends. Knowing who you are when that’s crucial is to see the path of resistance that equals your stay in life. We all come from varied backgrounds, yet some of us cannot relate to others’ experiences who may be less fortunate. The learning is to understand cultures and differences, but it cannot boil down to who has and who doesn’t. Instead, the focus is to avoid the judgment that creates inferiority, and it surely can’t be a feeling of self-worth. How you feel about yourself must be the mental infrastructure that sustains and galvanizes you. It will strengthen that connection to carry forward the scope of what was, what is, and what could become a reality.
As I often think about my day-to-day, those thoughts begin with my purpose. My purpose is definable only by the seriousness of my intent. To only want because it happens to be the day’s expectation is not enough. To answer the questions by responding to what is expected is still not enough. That sincere examination of self laced with pure honesty must be the force behind the intent to persevere. As the notion of perseverance speaks to the refusal of merely being tolerated, it should ignite a refusal to become unmovable. Being steadfast, used in the same breath of persevering, is that icing on the cake of creation, your creation. There is nothing worse than accepting mediocrity due to the battles of old and at the hands of other biased surveyors. Finding ways to thrive in a society that wishes to write people of color off as ongoing causalities and used for selfish gain beckons the question of why? Therefore, it is the why’s in this living cycle that garners a collective reality that continues to scream insufferable indignation on all levels to control, minimize, and destroy generations.
If you haven’t noticed, generations have been destroyed for the past 400 years. Incarceration, the removal of educational opportunities, the lack of sustainable employment are the hammered nails to that control. The steps are taken to ignore persecution were planned for centuries. However, it has now come down to an individualized effort to find that life sustenance that keeps our crowns adequately mounted. By being resilient, a tree’s roots must be preserved to avoid compromise. Natural synergy, a global presence to those roots with a long history of perceived defeat, is numbed by the retaliatory fact of a spiritual ally. It is nature calling to remind us of what’s important because even in death and even in poverty, you can’t kill the reckoning of what is destined to happen.
The countless and unsolicited deaths of young black men and women wreak hatred and absolute evil, which cripples and separates the true meaning of righteousness. For all intent and purposes, these shootings are murders of convenience and perhaps even sport. For those responsible, choices were available, but instead, death was the choice made, why, because they can. When the killing of a human being is protected even though the victims are unarmed, the idea of imminent danger is NOT a defense when there is no threat.
It would help if an explanation as to why blacks are hated so much? How can someone be judged and overwhelmingly categorized as vile, evil, and lazy when the reverse of those categories apply. Color should not be the tool to eliminate or denigrate just because it is available. Turn about can happen in the time it takes for the human heart to beat. Nothing stays the same forever, and nothing beats the truth over a lie. It behooves all who oppress to see themselves as mere humans like everyone else. No one should have this monopoly over another to keep them bound to a society whose wish is only to deprive, control, and kill.
This immoral leprosy connected to these governing bodies that have invaded this country is disgustingly shameful and has stained the moral compass of what this America needs to represent. Corruption, greed, racial bigotry, and mental governmental ineptness are the governing populous’s calling cards. The America I grew up in has vanished. And my perspective on life and the mechanics of government is still intact because I understand what a democratic process should look like for all people. But the hypocrisy currently being practiced by #45 is baffling, nontraditional, and void of common decency because what’s said can’t be believed! The promises made won’t be kept, and deceit is the custom-made suit of today worn by too many.
This Article was Last Updated On: January 31, 2021