Always believe the marginalized
Listen to our truth
Look pass what you know
Yo,if it is you and yours Policies change so change them for me and mine
ALLY
GEN!
Perpetual Love!
Gen is BIRTH OR KIND.
I’m up thinking about people and their GENerosity, GENuine caring souls, GENtle ways, metamorphosing into GENies for the helpless, ignorant and afraid, being many GENres, GIVING OUT OF THEIR ABUNDANCE TO HELP GENerations.
The difference between a hand up vs. a hand out is UP, you are in motion and out you are still.
I share this quote and say to each and everyone who has helped us on this journey, because of you generally speaking, lives have been changed for the better.
THANK YOU TRUMP!
LEGISLATED DEMISE OF BLACK PEOPLE happened before you and not because of you.
I must say, “AMERICA has lied to me time and time and time again!”
FERGUSON, MO have revealed OUR truth.
I want to thank FERGUGSON, MO for showing how DOUBLE STANDARD works in AMERICA, how IGNORANCE works in AMERICA, how LACK OF EDUCATION works in AMERICA, how White Supremacy works in AMERICA, how White Privilege works in AMERICA, showing how humanity is NOT embraced.
I want to thank FERGUSON, MO for showing what INITIATIVE looks like because YOU TOO ARE AMERICA, WE ARE THE DREAM!
I want to thank FERGUSON, MO for choosing to shed light and shame on Christianity in AMERICA.
I want to thank FERGUSON, MO for being used by GOD to be a mouthpiece in leading the chorus of singing OUR hearts, minds, and truths and transformation on a WORLD stage…..
I live in an impoverished area, I stand upon……
PURPOSEFUL, CHRONIC, and GENERATIONAL: Poverty, Secrecy, Hurt, Abandonment, Abuse, Neglect, Education Malpractice, Uncertainty, Confusion, Lack, Inequality, Deprivation, Dilapidation, Rejection, Lack of Validation, Criminology, Failure, Disease, Loneliness, Alone, Fear, Anger, Rage, Misunderstanding, Ignorance, Ill Exposed, Hunger, Hearing Impaired, Visually Impaired, Lack of social skills, Frustration, Wedlock, False Religion, Ill Will, Inability, Prejudged, Broken, Financial Illiteracy, Lack of energy, Transient, Seemingly Powerlessness, Low Expectations, Low Standards, Ill Preparedness, Hopelessness, Homelessness, and shame in MY AMERICA!
We here with nothing, DAILY wear a plethora of hats such as but NOT limited to:
Educators, Coaches, Mathematicians, Scientists, Designers, Learners, Teachers, Givers, Takers, Directors, Listeners, Spokeswomen, Spokesmen, Comedians, Prayer Warriors, Historians, Redirectors, Comforters, Friends, Custodians, Keeper of Long Hours, English Professors, Advocates, Menders, Followers, Leaders, Accepters, Keepers of Their Words, Tear Wipers, Difference Makers, Decision Makers, Measurers, Givers of Their Best, Administrators, Accountants, Literate, Illiterate, Event Management Coordinators, Pushers, Athletes, Supporters of Visions, Visionaries, Writers, Actors, Actresses, Animators, Wise, Courageous, Tough Minded, Extra Mile Travelers, Empathetic, Rejected, Responsibility Takers, Flexible, Disciplinarian, Over comers, Human, Loyal, Governors, Multigenerational Caregivers, Authors, Entertainers, Genealogists, Clerks, Computer Technicians, Composers, Film Directors, Users of good and bad judgment………………..CHAMPIONS!
During the first presidential debate of President Barack H. Obama, there was a buzz phrase going around by Mrs. Romney, called “YOU PEOPLE” as though we were minuscule, of no significance, and had no value or worth. I began to delve into the history of that phrase and I NOW stand upon that phrase TALL, and BOLDLY and say…..
“YOU PEOPLE” have something to say….
“America, Raise Your Level of Care and Concern For Her People of Color!” We, “YOU PEOPLE” who must understand that what is done is only being done because of our ignorance, lack of education in “the system” and our lack of engagement and understanding of the politics of this country. WE are MORE powerful than WE think and even care to know. It is the POOR who uphold AMERICA. We are major consumers and it is upon our backs America is held even TODAY, it is NOW time to understand OUR power and worth. I never understood MY worth or power because I didn’t know MY history and now that I have gotten a glimpse, I realize WE HOLD AMERICA UP!
I didn’t grow up in affluence, my family and I didn’t sit around talking politics, neither did my schools offer Young Dems or Young Republicans nor did we study OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION in the 1st and 2nd grade, you know to get a FULL understanding of “OUR” place and role in America.
With the election of President Barack Obama, I have just gotten engaged in politics. As one who have matriculated up the education ladder very well and have been told to “let things be” from those I respected in middle class and who shared my hue, I just knew I was supposed to lean upon them for SOUND wisdom but I DID NOT GET THAT, I GOT TURN MY BACK ON AND WORRY ABOUT MINE. Do I want to assure OUR children a better life, safe community YOU BET but not at the expense of turning my back on those AMERICA have shun. It appears one zip doesn’t matter. I needed answers to my most pressing questions as to why, how, where, and when because I found it difficult to look at children who were hungry, homeless, hurting, abused, and NOT ADVOCATE on their behalf and “unconsciously” NOT realizing that MINE were in their SAME boat. My understanding of GODLY principles did these things.
I am the face of the sequester, I am the face of homelessness, I am the face of the nutritionally challenged, I am the face of the underemployment, I am the face of the college educated, I am the face of a devoted voter, I am the face of a wife, I am the face of a mom, I am the face of an advocate, I am the face of one who love her community, I am the face of a substitute, I am the face of one who care about the broken, abused, hurting, and mis-educated children, I am the face of one who KNOW that OUR children deserve better and should have better within our educational systems, I am the face of one who REFUSE to accept NO or WE CAN’T as an answer, I am the face of one that just don’t get how those in decision making positions, organized on “behalf” of those in impoverished areas do not execute executive order on behalf of those who are voiceless and should be advocated for along with those who were born and raised in these very communities but chose to leave and NOT look back, uplift, and infuse the very residents they speak ill of or look down upon with the tools they need to see beyond their impoverished community, I am an educator who want, desire, and should have change in the schools so that I too can reside in a community where the children we educate TODAY can be the future LEADERS of tomorrow that understand that THEY TOO have a significant role to play other than being CONSUMERS in this global world!
Our children are in this school system where in THEIR world, TECHNOLOGY is KING; and they don’t have a COMPUTER SCIENCE teacher at the elementary level. They don’t have foreign language the way it SHOULD BE, I am the face of America………. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!
I was taught that “education” was my ticket out of poverty, education held the key to wherever I wanted to go. With degrees and stagnation, I am realizing as long as we allow employment discrimination it will persist as long as we allow white supremacy it will persist, as long as we remain in ignorance of our rights, it will persist, as long as we do NOTHING it will persist. We too want and deserve what is best for OUR children and we too have a sense of expectancy for our children to surpass us. We are NOT asking for handouts but educators with high expectations and standards.
WE DO HAVE PHENOMENAL ADMINISTRATION AND EDUCATORS but when they lack the VOICE and SUPPORT OF PARENTS, their hands are tied!
OUR children RIGHTFULLY deserve a MEANINGFUL EDUCATION of which should NOT be preserved for the privileged but for ALL. Being financially challenged and intellectually ripe is NOT synonymous……
It is NOW TIME that someone hold Local Boards of Education, State Boards of Education and Department of Education accountable for failing our children and families generationally. EDUCATION MALPRACTICE MUST CEASE!
It is asinine that I MUST go outside of my zip code to find “good education” for our children in 2015. Our children are just as technologically savvy as anyone else, our children are just as academically ready as anyone else, our children are linguistically capable as anyone else, our children are able to embrace different cultures as anyone else, our children are just as eager to learn as anyone else, they are capable to handle whatever is offered to them just as anyone else, and they are being pushed aside, NOT provided the educational opportunity and exposure UNLIKE others. I am in tune with where this country is going and we are PURPOSEFULLY NOT teaching our children other languages starting at the Pre-K/K levels or computer science so they too can perfect technology and engineering. I do not want to hear about funding; ISBE has watched funds mismanaged in our areas and our FUTURE is being hurt the most.
Research is ALWAYS proven, statistics is ALWAYS shown, and speculations are ALWAYS evident but the VERY voice that should be HEARD is the poor. Because one is financially challenged does NOT mean YOU know what is BEST, it just mean YOU have a certain power over those without.
IT IS NOW TIME TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! ENOUGH of speaking out on the poor behalf, ENOUGH of collecting statistical data but the POOR has NO input, ENOUGH with having meetings but the VERY target group being discussed is NOT sitting around the table. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
How is research proven when classes aren’t even offered?
WE have sat around time and time and time again and made a plethora of excuses of WHY our parents in impoverished areas aren’t or can’t be involved within their children’s education. School districts fail to hold them responsible to support their children and I say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
They do what they want, when they want, how they want, and with the resources, they want. WE NEED TO RAISE THE STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS for PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT. NO longer should parents have a choice, option, or whatever if they will ADVOCATE for, SEE about, and become ENGAGED with THEIR children’s education. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
AMERICA has told us to go to college and when you think of those of us who are underemployed and unemployed, it’s hard to stand before children and say GO TO COLLEGE when articles say WHITE HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS ARE MORE WEALTHIER than those of us with that slave piece of paper. Yes I could be working full time in a classroom but not at the demise of generations. OUR CHILDREN LIVES MATTER. Doing “just what I can” with those GOD has entrusted me WAS NOT GOOD ENOUGH! ALL children should be given the opportunity to learn, thrive, grow, and experience life as their counterparts.
OUR CHILDREN WILL RISE TO THE LEVEL OF THOSE WHO HAVE CHARGE OVER THEM.
NIGGER HUNTING LICENSES!
Metal Detectors
I have been a substitute teacher for the past 12 going on 13 years and have walked through metal detectors time and time and time again.
#PoorPeopleCampaign #ConfessionsOfASubstitute
Our children routinely get up, prepare and enter through metal detectors to some eagerly awaiting wardens.
Our administrators and teachers hands are tied, their visions and hopes are crushed and their innate gifts and talents are wasted because the goal is to NOT make sure OUR STUDENTS OF COLOR “get it” “reach higher” “soar farther” “believe in themselves” and “achieve what they thought they couldn’t” naaaaaa the goal is and was, THE POVERTY AMERICA LEGISLATE ON BEHALF OF ITS POOR PEOPLE GETS CRIMINALIZED under the guise of LAW AND ORDER within our educational systems.
#SchoolToPrisonPipeline
Chicago youth, if daily you are expecting to be educated, awakened, challenged, seen as GOT EVERYTHING AND THEN SOME TO OFFER but instead you are met with:
Disgruntled Teachers
Rotating Substitutes
Law Enforcement
Guns
Handcuffs
Wands
Metal Detectors
Racist Educators
Lunches their ANIMALS would never eat
In School Suspension
Everything that ALL ADULTS failed to speak up and speak out on your behalf to dismantle and eradicate and now…….
YOU ARE portraying publicly the way you are treated and feel privately
What do we do a d where do we go from here, ADULTS?
Here thinking about metal detectors in our “inner city” schools across America….
I used to say, we have NEVER had mass killings in our schools.
Just a few seconds ago something hit me, they became necessary when the shift of educators happened.
So are they to protect our children from those entitled and privileged gun carrying and card holding violent ones or is it to make them feel secure from themselves?
Countdown……
#MetalDetectors
It was only when #WhiteTeachers infiltrated our schools did we NEED metal detectors.
Our COMMUNITIES of color have been impoverished, oppressive and in this state a long time.
Here recently, we had to come up with these things that have our children seen as CRIMINALS disguised as safety for the appeasement of the NEW teachers in our towns.
Ummmmmm NEWS FLASH, we have yet to see a MASS SHOOTING in our schools where MAJORITY of BLACK AND BROWN bodies occupy.
They might bring weapons, heck now a fingernail file falls under that category.
I never really paid any attention until I STOOD BEHIND MY DAUGHTER and she began to be treated like a criminal, her body violated and DAILY the groping is the norm.
Is it REALLY for safety or is it as usual, LEGISLATED unconstitutional acts, violation, dehumanization, inhumane treatment, readying their minds for how the “REAL WORLD” sees them and will treat them under the guise of LAWS AND LEGATION?
White folk said when BLACKS basically spank or beat their children to “GET THEM IN LINE” it is traumatic and ineffective.
EVERYDAY our future across AMERICA walk through metal detectors with LAW ENFORCEMENT ARMED WITH GUNS and have documents that F up their future?
#Gotcha
Michael Moore the baby who was killed at Clark and too many others, how do we as a community #IAmEStL ALLOW the federal government, state and local school boards to treat our ALREADY LEGISLATED maltreatment, malpratice babies execute benign neglect?
How are we allowing them to legally prey upon our babies with these vicious and malicious laws, rules where they are treated inhumanely, immorally and illegally?
How are our babies not given opportunities?
How are we allowing the BLACK EDUCATORS to be overworked, traumatized continually, used, misused and abused?
How are our babies walking through metal detectors like “security” is of the uttermost importance and then turn around and release them back into viciousness?
If you have been following me for any length of time MY MESSAGE HAVE NOT CHANGED but what is happening is we are being convicted as a BLACK people.
I said a while back, this day would come when they didn’t give a damn who they hurt or kill because we adults didn’t give a damn to even show up for them.
THESE BABIES BLOOD IS ON OUR HANDS, ALL OF OUR HANDS!
So I suggested taking some funds from cops and allocating money to social workers and psychologists in our inner city schools.
A woman asked, if someone had a gun in schools, do you prefer a cop or social worker?
*BLANK STARE*
KAREN, the social worker and mental wellness professionals will be there to steer them away and help them to healthily deal with life’s pressing problems, issues and poverty.
ANYWAY KAREN, in our hoods, we haven’t had school shootings on the same level as PWS.
Recall when Normandy tried to go out to the affluent schools and they spoke on their NEED to get metal detectors and or they would come with their guns, knives and other lies?
Ya can’t make this shit up, I SWEAR.
#sen19rluncheon
Lundy Blue and Catrell Dent, these young men were BOTH special to me and my students.
I penned a piece titled when GOOD KIDS TURN BAD, prime example.
How dare we act like this LEGISLATED trauma doesn’t negatively affect our children
How dare we act like this impoverished area does not negatively affect our children
How dare we act like the first professionals cut are the needed clinicians to deal with this trauma
How dare we act like we are concerned about these babies
How dare we sit on our bottoms from places of affluence and negatively judge this kid who made a BAD decision but was NOT a bad young man, he was tossed into a lion’s den and THIS IS HIS END RESULT
How dare we not think that our children walking through METAL DETECTORS somehow think it is for THEM and their SAFETY and then when the bell rings release them to crime ridden areas….
Make it make sense……
What makes one LEGIT or PROFESSIONAL?
Teacher Certification
Teacher Licenses
Teacher Qualifications
Teacher Professional Development
Teacher Abuse
Teacher blah blah blah blah
They created a system for WHITES to come into our POOR BLACK SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES IN AMERICA to make a decent salary to not only FAIL OUR CHILDREN BUT PUSH THEM INTO THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE
You can have certification but to have it – love, understanding, empathy, relationship, vision, high expectations and standards and intentionality IT MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
How do America LEGISLATE education malpractice and curriculum discrimination and JUDGE those on a system that they KNOW did not get a high quality, progressive and 21st century education?
No, it is INTENTIONAL, WILLFUL AND KNOWN that the most gifted, talented and skilled will be locked out, denied and unable to do as we did prior to being FORCED to walk into brick and mortar.
White Folks…
After the arsons
After stealing inventions
After legislating education malpractice
After zoning the poor to certain areas
After assuring SOC can’t compete
After legislating curriculum discrimination
After making sure our areas would kill us speedily
After assuring us jobs with low wages
After saying PRO LIFE but showing us NOT OUR LIVES
After saying ANTI ABORTION but daily abort our lives
After the shootings
After the framings
After the denying
After the oppression
After the suppression
After the terrorizing
After the stopping
After the world caters
After not being licensed
After not having certifications
After not being qualified
After being known to be ineffective
After being known to be incompetent
After not meeting expectations
After having rave reviews for shitty services
After being chosen over the MOST qualified minorities
After sabotaging
I ASK, WHY ARE YOU ALL SO DAMN HATEFUL, MAD, EVIL, ANGRY, RACIST, FEARFUL AND MEAN?
Inaudible Nigger
White people hate to hear the word nigger
White people act like they never use the word nigger
White people report those who say or share the word nigger
They do all of that while inaudibly calling me a nigger
In THEIR minds the outward and vocal usage of the word meant derogatory, inferior, less than unequal to White folks.
Today they don’t audibly say the word but yet vote, legislate and raise their hands for laws, rules and policies that assure our niggerdom niggerism niggeritis niggerlyness of which is understood that Blacks are less than, inferior and not to be thought of as equal to White folks.
So although it os NOT audible, it IS most definitely understood.
MALCOLM, MARTIN AND MARSHATA
Just as my predecessors
Just as my foundation
Just as my root
Just as my mentors
Just as my champions
They studied
They were scholars
The learned
They were vocal about the truth of White supremacy
The wanted to eradicate White supremacy and Black oppression
They wanted a JUST world
They wanted fo alleviate classism and dominance over human life
They wanted a more equitable world
Those with privilege
Those who dominate
Those who are affluent
Those who this vicious system protects
Those who are LEGALIZED lawlessness they did not and do not want such things
Today, I am CONSTANTLY reported for violating Facebook community standards.
I walk away with this one TRUTH, scholarly, intellectually inclined, thought provoking, truth telling African Americans are NOT nor NEVER will be welcomed because those who REAP don’t want to be called out, exposed and they know we see them, hear their insolence and get/accept that they don’t care that we are traumatized, broken and hurting because this system insulates them and theirs.