[IS ANYBODY OUT THERE LISTENING?]
THE MUSIC FOR THIS ONE... YOU MIGHT NEED TO LISTEN TO THIS TO STAY CALM...
http://youtu.be/GB1sU7tVWyg?t=1m36s
In this the year 2013 we find our selves at the beginning of a new solar millenium confronted by the problems of the past one.
Religion and stale ideologies still hold us back. At a time when we have the most information ever at our fingertips so many choose to remain ignorant.
We, and by we I mean black people, still trust others to tell our children the truth while we continue to lie to em too. Hold them back from being all that they can truly be. While we know that the world has a negative view of us we still infight over minor things like skin color and class, destinctions designed to keep us held back.
While our children are being miseducated we hold back valuable information and it shows in ways that we would never have expected. I mean why are there so many damn car washes in black neighborhoods, so many hair salons? Why is it that when you ride through black neighborhoods you see so many expensives clothes, cars and shoes. We seem to wear our wealth on our back, drive it around town while giving nothing back. receiving nothing.
Drinking ciroc and hennessy cause you think it makes you look big in the club.
Most of the items that we wear or buy do not benefit our neighborhoods in any way. Once we spend that money its gone and will never see a black hand again for a while and when it does its only gonna be around a short time.
Why is it that you who were born of system of slavery and segregation cant get a business loan or even build an apartment complex in your own community? Its always some big corporation or other ethnicity that comes in and buys the land and builds the places that we live. Most of the time while paying rent to feed this system of inequal capitalism.
The other day I talked about how drugs have and are being introduced to our neighborhoods by the same government that we supposedly pay to keep us safe. Politicians and police all on the same payroll as the big dope man. You know him. He is the one who never gets caught cause he is the system.
It seems that the more like a jungle bunny we act the bigger the hype grows and now we have become the infamous... shucking and jiving all the way to being excluded. So many of us who have made it to the top forget where we come from and our children suffer for it cause no matter where your ass lives, in the city or the ghetto they are sucked in by the hysteria of who they should be. Real niggers with no substantial substance. Silicone ghetto Barbie dolls
No idea of who they are and where they came from. Ask them if they know who Marcus Garvey was or even the Jena six and they could not tell you a damn thing and that happened only a few years ago. It seems that black people have been affected by a form of short term memory loss where they end up marching and singing for the same damn thing over and over again.
Thats our fault.
Back in the day when a black man told truth the same thing happened. Look at Martin Luther King for instance. His own people in his frat and his church were his biggest enemies. it was only when his movement gained steam and was endorsed by the white man that they jumped on the bandwagon... All the while making very sure that the were facing the camera.
Yet Martin kept pounding home that truth. Even gave his life for it. So did so many others to numerous to mention. I bet they are rolling in their graves.
See I may write about a lot of things but I write it all as a black man to my people cause thats who I am. I really dont give a damn if a white person ever reads a word I say as long as I get through to one black person. Wake his or her ass up.
A here we are at the beginning of a new solar millenium still stuck on the stupidity of the last.
jerald hamzahfaruq murphy
