"YOU PEOPLE"

 

HURT PEOPLE, hurt people

 

 BRUISED PEOPLE, bruise people

 

Yep these are choices we make.

 

 Ever since I heard President Obama say that 45 had “MOMMY ISSUES” it resonated with what I have been saying from the very beginning.

 

This is a show of the depth of his pain because of his MOMMY ISSUES.

 

Some of the most loving, caring men can be some of the most abusive, hurtful men because of MOMMY ISSUES.

 

45’s MOMMY ISSUES didn’t begin when she sent him off to New York Military Academy.

 

45’s MOMMY ISSUES began prior to that but her sending him off set him off.

 

45’s MOMMY ISSUES was under a controlling, abusive, dollar driven, race hateful man who used her to do and be.

 

45’s MOMMY ISSUES was from a woman who was mentally sick, suffered from abuse, misuse, neglect and oppression.

 

45’s MOMMY ISSUES was so deep and cut throat, I promise you that he made a VOW that if he ever gained power that he would make children and women feel the depth of hurt and pain as he did because of his MOMMY ISSUES…..

 

 45 had NO mommy and son bond; MOMMY ISSUES

  

45 had NO mommy to fear for his life; MOMMY ISSUES

 

 45 had NO mommy to fear for his safety; MOMMY ISSUES

 

 45 had no mommy to dote over him; MOMMY ISSUES

 

 45 had NO mommy to love him unconditionally; MOMMY ISSUES

  

45 was connected to his mommy for 9 months, he was the ONLY one who knew her heartbeat; MOMMY ISSUES

 

45 was connected to his mommy for 9 months, he was the ONLY one who knew what made her stressful and fearful; MOMMY ISSUES

 

45 grew up knowing that his mom didn’t know how to care for him; MOMMY ISSUES

 

 45 knew that he was neither his mom nor his dad’s world and he missed that coddling; MOMMY ISSUES

 

45 never had his humanity visible; MOMMY ISSUES

 

45 never had authentic bonds, relationships and when he HAD to face people, he was ALWAYS on the defense and he CUSS, FUSS, FIGHT, and act like he didn’t give a darn but he can’t or don’t know how to act any other way because that is what PRIVILEGED AND ENTITLED PEOPLE DO; MOMMY ISSUES

  

This FALSE notion that he can say what he will, do as he will and don’t have to listen to anyone while he knows NOTHING about nothin is a nightmare and understood clearly by me!

 

45’s mommy should’ve WANTED THE WORLD TO SEE HIS intelligence, beauty, charm, mannerism, character, gifts and talents and ALL SHE SAW was a “thug” “criminal” “one to be feared.”

  

To have the honor of sitting at his mommy feet and allow her to fuel him, drench him, heal him, guide him, revive him, rejuvenate him, care for him, teach him and cover him are things 45 was unable to NEVER take in; MOMMY ISSUES

 

 To CHOOSE to mother, give your all, raise babies into ADULTS, start out with nothing but watch your seeds become mighty oaks make the journey sweet for some and bitter for others; MOMMY ISSUES

 

45 was a denied child; MOMMY ISSUES

  

45 was a rejected child; MOMMY ISSUES

  

45 was a caged child (NOT naturally but spiritually, educationally, psychologically and emotionally); MOMMY ISSUES

 

 45 was an abused child; MOMMY ISSUES

  

45 was a misused child; MOMMY ISSUES

 

 45 was an assaulted child; MOMMY ISSUES

 

45 was a mocked child; MOMMY ISSUES

 

45 was a hated child; MOMMY ISSUES

 

 45 was a deprived child; MOMMY ISSUES

 

 45 was a hungry child; MOMMY ISSUES

  

45 saw malpractice and maltreatment; MOMMY ISSUES

  

45 was an invisible child; MOMMY ISSUES

 

 45 grew up with broken spirits; MOMMY ISSUES

 

45 is the product of generational and intergenerational PTSD; MOMMY ISSUES

 

First, 45 mom CAGED him and then the moment he became powerful he began to cage children; MOMMY ISSUES

  

45 caged children, stripped women of their rights and talked to grown men and women of color like they were not human; MOMMY ISSUES

 

45 took FUNDS from countries seeking safety and security heading to America and acted like they were from him personally; MOMMY ISSUES

 

45 father refused no MINORITIES to live on his property; MOMMY ISSUES

  

45 became able to NOW CAGE our country that will adversely affect our future generations to come as we sit back and ALLOW him to do it, COLLECTIVELY; MOMMY ISSUES

I made a post a while back saying 45 is WF on STEROIDS.

45 isn’t quiet
45 isn’t sneaking
45 isn’t acting like he doesn’t know what he is doing to oppress, regress, contain and maintain minorities (ESPECIALLY BLACK FOLKS) in order to reserve and preserve WHITE SUPREMACY.

45 made this comment about Mexicans, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

HOW DO DRUGS, GUNS AND ILL AND MAL.COME TO THE HOODS OF AMERICA?

This is the SAME view they have of African Americans and other minority groups when HISTORY IS PROVEN THAT HE DESCRIBETH HIS WHITENESS.

45 has said LOUD AND CLEAR that he is protecting WF from minorities who are rapists, murderers, vicious, terrorists and the SAME people who go up to the executive suites, raise their hands to vote (down, out, lack, oppression and impoverishment) and wield an expensive cross pen have been doing the SAME thing to our INNER CITIES for decades.

We say vote so much, I AM TIRED.
Vote for who?
Vote for what?

I have been a voter ever since I became of age to vote and have lived in the same impoverished state also.

CAGING MINORITIES IS SO AMERICA AND IS NOTHING NEW TO WF.

 

America will continue to cage us EDUCATIONALLY, PROGRESSIVELY, ECONOMICALLY, EMPLOYABLY, NUTRIONALLY, ENVIRONMENTALLY, MEDICALLY AS LONG AS WE SIT BACK AND ALLOW IT AND NOT RISE UP TOGETHER BECAUSE WELL, THE FOUNDING FATHERS SAID WE HAD; MOMMY ISSUES

 

When WIELD AND WILLED really are synonymous….

The issues for me are the stages of grief, we know our children attend schools where they have NO psychologists, psychiatrists or social workers because it’s NEVER enough money but yet, they wield our OPPRESSION, POVERTY, MALPRACTICE AND MALTREATMENT and then criminalize us?

Is there NO end to the viciousness and disdain this country has for us?

MENtal illness
MENtal anguish
MENtal fatigue
MENtal confusion
MENtal exhaustion
MENtal draining
MENtal weariness

How do we justify some who INTENTIONALLY AND KNOWINGLY do things AGAINST HUMANITY AND CHRIST and say MENTAL ILLNESS and MOMMY ISSUES and others who are LEGISLATED oppression, hunger, homelessness, environmental hazardous areas, maltreatment and malpractice and SWIFTLY CRIMINALIZE them for it?

 #TraumaticPsychologicalInjury.

 

 

 

 

7 Americas

I am sitting her watching our beautiful children look at a mom fighting a good fight while I allow mine waste away (seemingly BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT).

I can’t shake that I reside in 7 Americas ( 1%, Affluent Whites, Middle Class Whites, Poor Whites Hyphenated, and Blacks and Poor Blacks).

Dr. King said 2 but I SEE 7 when justice is concerned.

I mean it is like I am speaking as Dr. King spoke back in the 60’s, I am choosing to NOT be moved like Rosa Parks one day spoke, I am speaking what Frederick Douglas spoke, Education is key to NOT being shackled but self lead; 2017 can someone pinch the hell outta of me; I mean come on men and women THIS CAN’T BE REAL!

LIES, LIES, LIES UPON LIES we are NOT the United States of America, and we are NOT all created equal and BLACK PEOPLE ARE STILL NOT FREE.

WE as a people of color are STILL being written and given a BAD CHECK that is coming BACK to us stamped INSUFFICIENT FUNDS, even in 2017-2021?

When I hear “OUR FOUNDING FATHERS” that is a coded phrase of when people of color were NOT considered human in America let alone equal to Whites and that somehow justifies the injustice, discriminatory actions, and racist over and under tones?

It is like we BLACK CITIZENS are not covered under the United States CONstitution and we are not walking in our liberty……

LIES, LIES, LIES UPON LIES!

This open letter is on behalf of EVERY student that crossed the threshold of a door I stood to great them.

I pose this question to YOU broken, abused, abandoned, neglected, feared, hurt, misguided and confused students, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? IF CHANGE EVER HAPPENED, IT WAS ALWAYS LEAD BY THE YOUNG PEOPLE.

 

As I meditate on this weekend’s commemoration of the East Saint Louis race riots, I think on how far we have come 100 years later, I am thinking on who are the culprits today, I am thinking on just how FREE I am today.

Dr. King spoke on 2 Americas and I wrote on 7 Americas (1%, Affluent Whites, Middle Class Whites, Poor Whites, Minorities, Blacks and Poor Blacks).

Today we are FREE they say and I ask How? When? Where? When?

Yep we are FREE to attend schools where our children are given an education less than inferior.

Yep we are FREE to reside in communities where we are inhaling and exhaling hazardous chemicals, drive by standing waters and road kill guts are ALWAYS laying as we travel to and from and inhale and exhale that.

Yep we are FREE to see dilapidated buildings as condos.

Yep we are FREE to drive down streets with holes so big that once our automobiles hit, THAT IS ITFOR THE WORKING POOR.

Yep we are FREE to be ticketed for NOT being able to pay tickets.

Yep we are FREE to work and still be unable to eat healthy nutrition.

Yep we are FREE to see those in decision making positions and executive positions steal money from the very poor people it is meant and it is like O WELL.

Yep we are FREE to work long, hard and STILL have no medical coverage.

Yep we are FREE to choose between poverty or success .

Yep we are FREE to watch hurt, pain, lack and say NOT MY ISSUE.

Yep we are FREE to watch our children suffer because we are suffering.

Yep we are FREE to attend religious institutions that tell us to KEEP ON HOLDING ON CAUSE GOD WILL MAKE A WAY

Yep we are FREE to see crime as the norm to the point our children are numb.

Yep we are FREE and GRATEFUL TOO!

Yep we are FREE to see all these things because well #FergusonTaughtMe to observe and see and question and IT IS EVERWHERE IN AMERICA where we are zoned.

BUT YET, WE ARE FREE!

 

 

America master DOUBLE D’s.

 

Distance and Dollars.

I always teach my children it is NEVER about their ability but ALWAYS availability.  If they have access to whatever the can and will master whatever

 

To make sure our inner city children are locked out, kept down and unable to compete and wear WHITE COLLARS  AND COATS they created DOUBLE D’S  and I call it the invisible WE SERVE ONLY sign.

IN AREAS WHERE EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ARE THE TICKET TO WHERE THEY WANT AND NEED TO GO BUT YET, THEY CUT EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES FOR POOR BLACK STUDENTS. THEY ARE SEEN AS A PRIVILEGE AND NOT A WAY UP AND OUT OF THE INNER CITY. WE HAVE MAD SKILLS, TALENTS, VISIONS, CREATIVE JUICES THAT ARE JUST INNATE BUT IF WE HAD THE EXTRAS AND THE PROFESSIONALS THAT ACCOMPANY IT;WE WOULD NOT ONLY SOAR BUT SOAR QUICKLY AND JUST DOMINATE AND THAT IS SOMETHING AMWERICA CAN NOT AND DO NOT WANT US TO HAVE.

 

IN AREAS WHERE EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ARE THE TICKET TO WHERE THEY WANT AND NEED TO GO BUT YET, THEY CUT EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES FOR POOR BLACK STUDENTS BUT SALARIES ARE BIG AS HELL……

AS A FIGHTING PARENT…….

I UNDERSTAND MY POWER
I UNDERSTAND MY VOICE
I UNDERSTAND UNITY
I KNOW THAT WITHOUT MY CHILDREN, THE DISTRICT LOSE MONEY
I KNOW THAT TOGETHER WE WILL WIN!

 

African American Busting Myths now?
O REALLY?

These people really need to get some where and sit down.

If our children were provided the SAME opportunities and extracurricular activities on a golden academic platter and their parents weren’t overlooked for reputable employment then there would REALLY BE NO NEED FOR D AND D.

Our athletes should be MODEL students:

1. ATTEND SCHOOL EVERYDAY
2. COME PREPARED WITH ALL SUPPLIES
3. EXHIBIT HIGH ACADEMIC STANDARDS
4. EXHIBITING LEADERSHIP
5. SHOWING GOOD CHARACTER
6. RESPECT ALL STAKE HOLDERS
7. ABIDE MY LAWS SET IN PLACE BY THE SCHOOL AND DISTRICT
8. BE CIVICALLY ENGAGED

If THIS is asking TOO DAMN much THEN they should NOT be athletes!!!

THEY ARE STUDENTS FIRST and if memory serves ME CORRECTLY, athletics is EXTRAcurricular.

If they can’t MASTER the 8, there is NO WAY IN HELL EXTRA should be permitted! #stripthemfromtheteam

 

We all know that ourr athletes produce on the court, field and gym because of the SHARED DEMANDS AND EXPECTATIONS AND SET GOALS.

They are believed in, exposed to grwatnessUr expsoure, experience, expectations, extracurriculars, are just that YOURS if U c one that U know is NOT where U R; don’t look down…GO DOWN AND ELEVATE. They too want Ur experiences, expectations, extracurriculars….TEACH, REACH, SHOW, and UNCONIDTIONALLY LOVE!!! It REALLY DOES TAKE A VILLIAGE…U REMEMBER YOUR VILLAGE THAT HAD A HAND IN YOUR RIGHT NOW MOMENTS…DONCHA??????

 

D & D!

D & D is the game changer when it comes to opportunity, exposure, and crafting what comes natural.

D & D is what dictates NOT what is within but how a country assure YOU CAN’T AND WON’T.

D & D is the root of who excels and fails BUT not really.

D & D is the zoning to differentiate between the haves and have not.

D & D is the mastermind of one who want to rid the MASTERMINDS.

D & D is when DISTANCE and DOLLARS dictate what our children in the inner city have access minus the heart disease and stress causes by attempting to expose, support, assure and make SHIT happen for them that should just come AUTOMATIC because they are DUE IT ALSO.

 

This SHIT aint right

This SHIT is for the birds

This SHIT don’t feel good

This SHIT was a set up

This SHIT is critical

This SHIT is discombobulating

This SHIT is a bitch

This SHIT is rediculous

This SHIT is asenine

This SHIT is immoral

This SHIT is legislated maltreatment

This SHIT is a muthafucker

This SHIT is inhumane

This SHIT is illegal

This SHIT is aggression

This SHIT is toxic

This SHIT is abusive

This SHIT is humiliating

This SHIT is racist

This SHIT is oppressive

This SHIT is isms

This SHIT is regressive

This SHIT is unwarranted

This SHIT is sickening

This SHIT is orchestrated

This SHIT is twisted

This SHIT is about White Supremacy

This SHIT is demeaning

This SHIT inaults our intellect

This SHIT is all about patriarchy

This SHIT is all about mind control

This SHIT is all about profit over people

This SHIT is mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically draining

This SHIT is about power

This SHIT is about control

This SHIT is about silencing the seed carriers

This SHIT is about stopping progress

THIS SHIT NEED TO STOP AND ONLY WOMEN CAN AND MUST MAKE IT STOP.

 

 

If we gone be FREE people of color then let us get FREE.

Yesterday a man (Thanks Bro. Jeff) stood up and gave his testimony.

He talked about 2 children. When he started, I knew to get my pen and pad.

Prior to testimony service the church sang JESUS BE A FENCE ALL AROUND ME EVERYDAY, JESUS I WANT YOU TO PROTECT ME AS I TRAVEL ALONG THE WAY, I KNOW YOU CAN (YES LORD) I KNOW YOU WILL (YES LORD) FIGHT MY BATTLES IF I KEEP STILL OR IS IT STEAL OR IS IT STEEL…..

1. of the children had a fence and the other didn’t.

I began to reflect on the haves vs. the have nots. I saw beautiful former students who walked through metal detectors and well I am here…….

THE CHILD GROWING UP WITH A FENCE understand that they are protected, unable to roam, aren’t easily accessible to strangers or dogs, have a sense of security, knows that someone standing right out there watching.

THE CHILD GROWING UP WITHOUT A FENCE undwrstand that they have freedom, they are fighting off bullies, stray dogs, anxiety, stress YET HAVING FUN and the adult just took them and left them in this open space.

BARB WIRES are used to MAINTAIN AND KEEP prisoners in cages, fences and from escaping. I was told that they are given a small time of daylight in a 24 hour period, they are uses foe free labor and do jobs GOOD SALARIES WHILE FEEE would deter thwm feom entering had they had the HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION our counteying seemingly can never affors for certain zip codes.

METAL DETECTORS are used for peace of mind items for WHITES who come to foreign twrritories with already false precomceived notions, afraid, raists, hateful that thwy are there that wr citozens STILL pay them to come. Not only do. BLACK AND BROWN students but faculty and staff as well are dehumanized.

You CAN NOT convince me America that, THAT move is for OUR or OUR CHILDREN’S safety because of crime and violence when you LEGISLATE the very CRIME AND VIOLENCE that eventually comes inside the schools because the needed clincians are for the privileged and not them.

Yet daily our children are stripped, bodies are violated, standing in lines to be searched, bags, pockets, clothes must be emptied. I commend the workers, they have a job to do, I HATE AMERICA for building up our children as the criminals they are NOT.

 

The CHILD THAT GREW UP WITHA FENCE and felt protected, assured, safe, confident and loved roamed a free world.

 

The CHILD THAT GREW UP WITHOUT a fence grew up to be caged in the fence, treated worst than animals and made to work like slaves.

 

GERALD NAVE, YOU HAVE CROSSED THE FINISHED LINE!

THE MAN THE SEED PLANTER! THE MAN THE COACH! THE MAN THE EDUCATOR! THE MAN THE COUNSELOR!

THE MAN, PERIOD!

ROCK JR. HIGH HOME OF THE WARRIORS WHERE OUR COLORS WERE PURPLE & WHITE

ROCK!!!!!!

WHAT IS A ROCK?

WE SAY THEY WERE THE ROCK OF THE FAMILY, A ROCK IN OUR LIVES, ROCK IN THE CHURCH, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL MR. NAVE A ROCK, A CORNERSTONE AND PILLAR THAT IS THE REASON I AM HERE TODAY.

PURPLE, PURLE IS FOR ROYALTY, DEITY, GRACE, SACREDNESS, DIGNITY, HONOR, PRESTIGUE THE LAST COLOR OF THE RAINBOW THAT ASSURES US THE RAIN WON’T LAST ALWAYS…..PURPLE AND WHITE

HE WAS KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL, I AM NOT GOING TO THINK IT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH HIS PIPE. 🙂

WHITE IS SAID TO BE FOR PURITY AND CLEANLINESS

AS I THINK OF MR. GERALD NAVE AND HIS IMPACT, WHEN HE ENTERED THE BUILDING, YOU KNEW HE WAS THERE.

HE WAS DAPPER, CLEAN CUT, PROFESSIONAL, STYLISH, SUITS TAILORED MADE AND HIS WORDS AS ARTICULATE AS HE WAS, SLID SO SMOOTH OUT OF HIS MOUTH, HE SPOKE WITH GREAT DICTION, ASSURANCE, CONFIDENCE, UNDERSTANDING AND WAS INTENTIONAL.

MR. GERALD NAVE.

HE WAS MY CIVIC’S TEACHER.

AS I STAND BACK AND SEE ME WHO WAS ONCE BASHFUL, OBSERVANT, QUIET, LOW ESTEEM AND LACKING IN CONFIDENCE TRANSFORM INTO WHO I AM TODAY……

HE WAS MY CIVIC TEACHER.

I BEING A PART OF THIS MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES, I BEING A PART OF THIS MOVEMENT OF ERADICATING THE WRONGS OF THIS COUNTRY, AS I BEGAN TO REFLECT ON HIS INVESTMENT IN MY LIFE, WAS HE THE SEED?

HE TAUGHT ME CIVICS

HE TAUGHT ME MY ROLE AS AN UNITED STATES CITIZEN

HE TAUGHT ME THE IMPORTANCE OF MY VOICE

HE TAUGHT ME THE IMPORTANCE OF MY VOTE

HE TAUGHT ME THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING CIVICALLY ENGAGED

HE TAUGHT ME THAT ONLY I COULD CHANGE MY COMMUNITY BECAUSE I KNOW IT BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE

ROCK…….PURPLE AND WHITE

JR. HIGH SCHOOL IS THE TIME WE BEGIN TO FIND OUT WHO WE ARE

JR. HIGH SCHOOL IS THE TIME WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF RELATIONSHIPS AND OUR INTERCONNECTEDNESS

JR. HIGH SCHOOL IS THE TIME WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHO WE NEED AND DON’T’ NEED ON OUR JOURNEY

JR. HIGH SCHOOL IS THE TIME WE BEGIN TO BUILD SOLID RELATIONSHIPS

JR. HIGH SCHOOL IS THE TIME WE BEGIN TO EXPERIMENT WITH EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

JR. HIGH SCHOOL IS THE TIME WE BEGIN TO DEVELOP WHAT IS WITHIN US THAT GIVES US INSPIRATION AND PURPOSE

JR. HIGH SCHOOL IS THE TIME WE BEGIN TO THINK BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL

ROCK…….PURPLE AND WHITE

MR NAVE WAS A WARRIOR INDEED.

THEY SAY ALL KINDS OF RUBBISH ABOUT THOSE WHO TEACH POOR BLACK CHILDREN. THEY SAY ONE NEED TO BE HARD, ONE NEED THICK SKIN, ONE NEED TO HAVE A STRAIGHT FACE, ONE NEED NOT GET CLOSE TO THE STUDENTS. YEP, THEY SAY ALL OF THIS CRAP WHEN ALL YOU NEED IS A LOVE OF PEOPLE, A LOVE OF THE PROFESSION, TO SEE HUMAN BEINGS, TO NOT EQUATE POVERTY WITH INTELLECT AND A FAR REACHING VISION OF WHERE YOU WANT YOUR STUDENTS TO GO AND ALLOW THEM SPACE TO GROW AND GO.

MR. NAVE DIDN’T SCREAM OR TALK ABOVE A WHISPER (AT TIMES) BUT THOSE EYES SPOKE AT TIMES WHEN NOTHING CAME OUT OF HIS MOUTH.

HE WAS ONE COOL MAN.

HE WOULD SAY CARADINE IN VARIOUS TONATIONS, PITCHES AND LEVELS THAT MADE ME UNDERSTAND WHICH ONE WAS THE ONE THAT CONVEYED, I’M BOUT TO CALL YO MOMMA AND I HAD YOUR SIBLINGS SO WE BOTH ALREADY KNOW YOU DON’T WANT THAT MAD WOMAN UP HERE.

THAT WAS THE TIME WE HONORED ADULTS AND OUR PARENTS.

HE WAS IN THE COHORT OF SUSIE HAIRE MANN, BRENDA BUSH, VERNA TOLDEN, MR. CAMPBELL, MR. BURNS, MR. LORENZO BUFFORD, MS. ARMATHA DOUGLASS, MS. MABLE RELIFORD, PATRICE REESE MILLER, MR. KELLY THRASH, MS. WILMA BOURRAGE, MS. MS. EVANS, MR. BOBBIT, MS. THEODORA ASH, MS. PEGGY LECOMPTE, MS. MURRY, MS. SKURLARK, MRS. BRENDA BUSH AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO DEMANDED, AND REFUSED TO LOWER THE STAKES, BARS, EXPECTATIONS AND STANDARDS AND DIDN’T MAKE EXCUSES BECAUSE OF THE CONDITIONS WE LEFT ON THE OUTSIDE BECAUSE THEY KNEW WHAT WAS INSIDE OF EACH AND EVERYONE OF THEIR STUDENTS BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT AFRAID TO BE EITHER EDUCATOR OR PARENT.

THEY BUILT RELATIONSHIPS, BECAUSE THEY WERE ROCKS!

I OVER TIME RAN INTO MR. NAVE AT MCDONALD’S (A LOT) AND WE WOULD SIT AND TALK ABOUT EDUCATION AND POLITICS.

IT FELT STRANGE TO CONVERSE WITH MY FORMER TEACHER AS AN EDUCATOR BECAUSE OF THE HIGH REGARDS AND RESPECT I HAD FOR HIM, I STILL SAW HIM AS NOT AN EQUAL BUT MY EDUCATOR.

HE AND I WOULD TALK ABOUT THE STATE OF EDUCATION AND THIS NEW GENERATION AND I GOT A CHANCE TO THANK HIM AND RUB HIS BALD HEAD IN HARDEE’S IN CASEYVILLE THE LAST TIME I SAW HIM.

HE WAS INDEED STILL FRESH AS THAT THANG!

I AM ELATED HE IMPARTED, STAYED AROUND, SAW SOMETHING IN US, INVESTED IN THE COMMUNITY HE STAYED,  EDUCATED, EMPOWERED AND GAVE ME THE NECESSARY TOOLS TO CARRY THE TORCH HE PASSED ON.

YOUR RACE WAS RAN WELL, SIR!

 

 

 

Every day have withdrawn and deposited from your parents.

 

 

I am centering this around your parents for your FIRST YEAR TRIBUTE because THEY ARE OUR REASON TO HONOR YOU TODAY AND EVERYDAY and because they were simply amazing and perfect for you.

 

We spent a week in the hospital BEFORE your unexpected arrival.  We sat around uncertain, afraid, unsure and discombobulated because you had to be delivered by C-Section and not just that, but 2 months early. You were due in Februrary.

 

Your parents paced, prayed, cried, pointed fingers, challenged your physcicians and had to give you up to people and put you in the care of others that wouldn’t do it as they did.

 

BUT THEY TRUSTED.

 

While in NICU the only time they left you was to dash home to get needed items but FAMILY AND FRIENDS stayed with you until the day you were discharged.

 

Your mom was AMAZING, she didn’t have the vocabulary and upfront demanor as your dad BUT THAT protection, those tears and the way she held you in the most loving and compassionate manner SPOKE MORE THAN ANY WORDS OR DEED.

 

I had to make your dad stand down and be quiet at times, thpse settings look as us as numbers and not human. HE WAS IN HIS RIGHT to question, demand, etc. but I knew the price YOU WOULD PAY behind the scenes and I did NOT want that. (THIS IS WHY I FIGHT AND WRITE)

 

 

You and your Mommy have a bond unlike I have ever seen nor could have.  I said something about your mom in the womb as she laid there on the Monitor and you gave a kick so hard and loud that let me know, THAT BLACK MOM TALKIN BOUT ACTION THAT WILL GET SOMEONE’S BUTT KICKED WAS STILL IN FULL EFFECT. YOU ARE INDEED BLESSED TO HAVE THE PARENTS YOU HAVE.

 

NICU brought me in, made me slow down, gave me perspective, allowed me to see what family do when family is needed. I was clearly lead by your patents and aunts, THEY MADE ME and am I eternally grateful for them.

 

 

To be involved in JUSTICE work is scary, and yep INTENSIVE but we are where here because someone DECIDED to face, demand, confront and push others along and call others in for our LIFE, LIBERTY, JUSTICE AND HUMANITY.

 

 

YOU HAVE A VILLAGE, CIRCLE OF LOVE AND SUPPORT TEAM SO WIDE AND EVERYONE WILL SURROUND YOU AND HAVE A LANE TO ASSURE AS BEST WE CAN THAT YOU CAN AND WILL CONTINUE TO THRIVE LIKE ALL CHILDREN SHOULD AND DESERVE.

 

 

We get you home from NICU, Now where do we take you? There is NO way you could thrive in toxcity, you NEEDED a cleaner, safer and more secure environment to thrive and you did.

 

You have one G-paw who is the G.O.A.T. or real MVP.  He has a heart of gold, he is one great provider and when you see him, you just LUNGE TOWARDS HIM.  I think you knew he was the TRUTH even in your infancy state but the older you got, the MORE you bonded, stayed and played with him and also looking around me to make sure he was behind me, a lot of times I disappointed you but HE MADE UP THE TIME.

 

Your maternal grandparents stepped up, came through and helped when and where they could.  You have a granpaw that was cool and is cool.  This man is taaaaall and just as laid back but don’t take no mess. I love the way he ask your mom about you when I am in earshot. Now your GRANNY ON THE OTHER HAND, SHE DOESNT SPOIL YOU, she just think of you through gifts.

 

She is simply a beautiful soul and an amazing woman who loves you with everything she has.

 

 

Your mom was able to spend your entire 12 months with you, nurturing you, protecting you, loving you, nursing you and healing you while your dad provided for his family.

 

 

Today will be a good day, it is a day I will for the firat time understand what count my blessing really looks like and should be, FAMILY.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY POOH BEAR!