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As devastating as it is children are dying everyday from
gun violence all over the country. For many reasons this is happening, many
reasons some of us choose to ignore. Bullets, they have no name. The intended
targets are saved by innocent souls and it's heartbreaking. What can we do to
stop the violence and promote peace? It's easier to point fingers and place
blame then it is to take responsibility for the things we condone and the
problems we create.
Black people aka African Americans have become their own
adversaries, starting with the new generation of gangs. Gangsters today are
what you call powerful degenerates corrupting the innocence of society. To live
the life of luxury they sell poisonous drugs to relatives and known residents
of the neighborhood. They promote violence by terrorizing their own community.
Low poverty and heavy drug addictions have led to violent crimes such as armed
robbery, assault, breaking and entering and attempted murder. The sad thing
about it is when you become an addict it affects all of those around you and it
starts with family. They plot and pull scams on their closest relatives. As the
condition worsens addicts begin to confiscate their loved ones valuable
possessions, selling them for as low as $10 or $20. Drug addicts will do
whatever it takes to maintain their habit not caring who they hurt to get it.
Unmercifully, some have even went as far as trying to sell their children for
$10 to $25.
Where we live, where we come from, our neighborhood, our
community, is supposed to be a safe haven, a place of refuge. A place where we
can have block parties, a place where we work together to protect the youth and
our families, a place where we help with the needy and less fortunate. Where
did it all begin? How did this happen? Our ancestors didn't fight for what we
have by battling and working against their own. Back then they didn't have
homes to live in, beds with mattresses to sleep in, or washing machines to wash
their clothes in. They live in handmade shacks and slept on cots and wooden
floors. They washed their clothes by hands in buckets and hung them on a
clothing line. Back then blacks didn't work in banks, department stores,
grocery stores and restaurants, and if they were they couldn't be seen. There
were no black police officers, fire fighters, post workers, railroad conductors
and bus drivers. During those times black people were called field workers,
foremen, sharecroppers, janitors, chauffeurs and maids. Luxury cars and lavish
living was the least of their desires. They just wanted to be free from the
shackles, brutality and cruel punishment. the lynching and beatings and the
rapes are the things they were trying to be free from. They fought for justice
on white and black crimes and equal rights for their people, for us, for our
people!
Somewhere, somehow we forgot about the beatings, the
rapes, discrimination, deaths due to hate crimes and wrongful convictions of
our ancestors. How is it that what our ancestors suffered, sacrificed and
fought for took a 360 degree turn? The teachings of morality and loyalty
towards family, what happened? Instead of loving each other and helping each
other we have shown signs of hate. Men have no respect for women. They use
degrading terms and are physically abusive towards them. The women are
demoralizing themselves by using their body for attention to get what they
want. So many men have neglected in their responsibilities as fathers leaving
the mothers to raise the child on her own.
In the city of Chicago people do whatever it takes to
provide for their families and their addictions. Life in this city is all about
hustling. The unemployment and welfare lines are increasing daily. Young
children are supposed to be in school are at McDonald's, grocery stores,
laundromats and gas stations begging for change. Sexual abuse, teen pregnancy,
teens with STDs and AIDS in African Americans is on the rise. Little boys are
sagging their pants not knowing where it initially stems from. They are only
doing what they see older teens and grown men do, specifically males in hip
hop. It's the same as using the N word. How did something so degrading turn out
to be proudly accepted?
At some point we lost focus, at some point we forgot
where we came from. Take a look around, every ethnicity stands by and supports
their own kind with the exception of African Americans. Everybody has something
to call their own except black people. We keep blaming others, but the only
ones we can blame is ourselves. Some say the system is set up for us to fail
and if that's the case, some of us have proven them right!
Written by: Tamara M. Anderson February 20, 2014
Very nice blog my dear Sister. You've brought forth many hard hitting points that are in need of answering.
ReplyDeleteInteresting enough, such questions have been asked by several generations among those who truly want to know.
However knowing the answer can bring very little comfort to us as many of us have come to know through thorough research and study that what is taking place and has been taking place is part of a design. Our ancient ancestors prepared for this to occur which is a reason why many of the ancient kingdoms were abandoned by them as they would leave behind on several Temple walls around the world historical knowledge for us in these times even if it came through the hands of our enemies who invaded so long ago..
We come from a lineage line of greatness of our people our culture our norms and spiritual ways.
Our natural way of being was invaded upon by a created selfish race of people who would live among us and turn on us.
Our ancient ancestors would urge us to fight to get to know ourselves, because those who live amongst us now from there ancestors would do much to strip us away from who we are and write us out of history and create us a new one.
So during the fight and continuous war that has been inflicted upon us as a people around the world we are seeing the results of damage that has been done to us and the world at the hand of these so-called elites and their bloodlines.
So many of our black scholars and historians have taken the time and legwork to document events leading to these times as to what is happening and what has happened to us as a people.
We must be wise to understand even overstand that slavery was never abolished slavery never ended but today's generation slavery is made to look like there is an improvement and you can be successful under the hand of dictatorship of the same murderers and Invaders of our people and which many of us have went to bed with.
One must strive to revisit our story that our ancestors left behind in order to know the various wars and the decades of enslavement to this day that has been fought.
Masses of our people were exterminated and several lands taken and renamed, families separated and sold and experimented upon with eugenics and biological experiments, medical apartheid, mental brainwashing through several tools of institutions such as religion, education and including the medical and pharmaceutical industry.
The tool of media and social engineering continues even now today and plays a heavy part in human resource plantation into the prison corporation plantation for the purpose of control and depopulation.
So as we look at these issues that we face today, we are looking at a broken divided people who have been taught to hate self and we struggle to rise because of who we are and we are in a deep sleep fighting to awake and this is what keeps our enemies in charge and in control over us even those of their race that they consider casualties of war.
It's a hurtful thing to the eye for us to see our people in this condition but we must remain focused and vigilant that has to repeated cycle of some of our ancestors returning to the planet to take up the work of knowing and learning of ourselves in order to change the events of the present.