"YOU PEOPLE"

I HAVE HAD REQUESTS TO WORK WITH CHILDREN AND I OF COURSE SAID NO

NOT TO BE FACETIOUS BUT THEY NEED NO HELP BECAUSE THEY LEARN THEIR OWN WAY, YES SO

SOME PARENTS SEEM TO THINK THEIR CHILD NEED HELP TO LEARN HOW TO FLUENTLY READ

WHERE WERE THE “experts” WHEN YOU PULLED UP TO CHUCK E. CHEESE, MCDONALD’S OR WALMART AND YOUR TODDLER KNEW EXACTLY WHERE THEY WERE AND COULD ARTICULATE IT AROUND THE AGE OF THREE?

SOME PARENTS SEEM TO THINK THEIR CHILD NEED HELP WITH KNOWING HOW TO COUNT

UMMMMM HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU DID “that special” THING WHILE PLAYING PEEK A BOO AND THEY LAUGHED WITH GREAT EXPECTATIONS AS YOU LANDED ON THAT RIGHT QUE, THEY BULKED OUT THAT INFECTIOUS SHOUT?

SOME PARENTS SEEM TO THINK THEIR CHILD SHOULD SIT AND IN CERTAIN SETTINGS BE  QUIET AND STILL

SOME CHILDREN NEED TO MOVE ALL OF THE TIME, THAT IS HOW CHOREOGRAPHERS DO THEIR THANG AND CONVEY THEIR PASSION WICH IS INNATELY REAL

YOU SEE, FROM THE TIME OF CONCEPTION UNTIL THE MOM REACHED THE DELIVERY WARD AND HOPPED ON THAT GURNEY AND CENTIMETER NUMBER TEN

YOUR PRIDE AND JOY DID WHAT IT TOOK TO INTO THIS WORLD COME IN

AFTER DELIVERY, IT WAS INDEED ON THEIR OWN THEY LEARNED HOW TO GET ATTENTION, LISTEN FOR “THAT” VOICE, AND YEP LET YOU KNOW WHEN THEY SHOULD BE CHANGED AND IT WAS TIME TO EAT

ONCE THEY GOT HOME THEY GREW SOOOO RAPIDLY IT WAS JUST AMAZING AND BEFORE YOU EYES, SHOWED YOU JUST HOW THEY ARE, UNIQUE

THEY BEGAN TO FOCUS, CRY, LAUGH, EXPERIMENT WITH FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND YES EVEN COO

THEY LEARNED TO EAT, WHICH CRY GETS WHAT AND TRAINED MOMMY AND DADDY; YEP GRANNY AND GRAMPY TOO

THEY LEARNED TO CRAWL, STAND, BALANCE, WALK AND EVENTUALLY RUN

THEY LEARNED TO EAT, SIT UP STRAIGHT, FOCUS AND UNDERSTAND COMMANDS LIKE STOP, LOOK AND EVENT WHEN IT WAS SELECTIVE, COME

THEY LEARNED A PLETHORA OF THINGS BEFORE THE AGE OF FIVE BUT THE GREATEST IS THEY HAVE CONTROLL OF WHAT THEY SAY, DO AND LOVE

I DARE ANYONE ASK ME TO TUTOR THEIR CHILD BECAUSE BEFORE AGE FIVE THEY PERFECTED LIFE ON THEIR OWN

NO, THEY SHALL NOT BE TAUGHT THE WAY I TEACH

THEY LEARN THEIR WAY AND THEIR WAY IS A SPECIAL WAY….YEP, UNIQUE!

African Americans’ intellectual property have ALWAYS been up for grabs.

We had to shed their EVERYTHING to assimilate

We had to shed our culture

We had to shed our language “ebonics”

We had to shed our work ethics

We had to shed our unity

We had to shed our power

We had to shed our financial resources

We had to shed our intellectual property

We had to shed our EVERYTHING when we move into PWA and willfully, knowingly and purposefully allow them to STRIP our children of all of them, their natural selves

OUT FRONT, LOUD, OPEN AND INTENTIONAL WITH HERS.

To perpetuate STEALING OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY that America constructed evelved from BLATANT laws that say it is not ours to BLACK.CODES.

Instead of BLACK CODES it is POLICIES, RULES, LAWS, MANDATES,

STEALING:
Elections
Seats
Campaigns
Positions
Degrees
is just as WA as anything else.

It is history.
They STOLE whole people from Afica.
They BOMBED entire communities in America.
They yet TERRORIZE people to stay put.

Now, I ask what will we upstanding, compliant, permissible, and progressive people going to do?

How do those who KNOW and UNDERSTAND the importance of high quality education are content with our children of color NOT having a 21st Century Education and State Education saying they don’t have to provide a High Quality Education to poor black childten and then to top it off, poor mom’s can be jailed for “stealing an education?

#BenignNegligence is a system in place that says although we have local, state and federal organizations NONE are responsible for our plight. So in essence, America LEGISLATE our maltreatment and malpractice and they don’t have to do a SINGLE THING ABOUT it and nor can we.

LUNDY BLUE LIVED HIS DASH

LUNDY BLUE MADE A LASTING IMPRESSION

LUNDY BLUE TOUCHED THOSE HE CAME INTO CONTACT WITH EVER SO POSITIVELY

LUNDY BLUE WAS UPSTANDING

LUNDY BLUE WAS RESPECTFUL

LUNDY BLUE WAS CONSIDERATE

LUNDY BLUE WAS A JOKESTER

LUNDY BLUE LIVED………

CATRELL DENT, MY BOY

WAS A TICKING TIME BOMB

STARTED OUT AS AN EAGER LEARNER

STARTED OUT AS A FOCUSED STUDENT

STARTED OUT BRIGHT EYED

STARTED OUT WITH A READY SMILE

STARTED OUT AS A JOKESTER

ENDED UP AS ONE WHO WAS EASILY ANGERED

ENDED UP AS ONE WHO WAS HOT HEADED

ENDED UP AS ONE WHO WAS EXPLOSIVE

ENDED UP AS ONE WHO WAS A YOUNG MAN OUR DISTRICT ALLOWED TO DRIFT AWAY

ENDED UP AS ONE WHO WAS A YOUNG MAN OUR DISTRICT INTENTIONALLY OVERLOOKED

ENDED UP AS ONE WHO WAS A YOUNG MAN OUR DISTRICT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT WE HAVE WITNESSED

ENDED UP AS ONE WHO WAS A YOUNG MAN OUR DISTRICT SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE PAIN, ANGUISH AND LIFE HE LIVED

ENDED UP ON DISPLAY OF WHAT THIS SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE IS ALL ABOUT

ENDED UP AS ONE WHO WAS THE PRODUCT OF THIS VICIOUS AMERICA THAT IS SET IN PLACE TO SIFT OUR BLACK LIVES

I STILL SEE HIM AS LOVING

I STILL SEE HIM AS COMPASSIONATE

I STILL SEE HIM AS AMBITIOUS

I STILL SEE HIM AS DRIVEN

I STILL SEE HIM AS IN CONTROL

I STILL SEE HIM AS A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS CALM WHEN HE WANTED TO BE

WHEN I FIRST MET CATRELL, HE WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND WE TALKED ABOUT A LOT AS I DO MY BABIES. 

I TALKED WITH HIM, I ALLOWED HIM TO COME TO MY CLASS TO COOL HIS HEAD, I ALLOWED HIM TO VENT IN MY ROOM, I ALLOWED HIM TO BE FAILED.

DAY IN AND DAY OUT: SUBS SUBS SUBS SUBS SUBS

DAY IN AND DAY OUT: CONSISTENT INCONSISTANCIES

DAY IN AND DAY OUT: STRIPPED OF DIGNITY BY WALKING THROUGH METAL DETECTORS AND SEEN AS AND TREATED AS CRIMINALS WHEN HE WAS JUST HUNGRY

DAY IN AND DAY OUT: WALKING AROUND SPEAKING BUT MUTED

DAY IN AND DAY OUT: SEEN AND INVISIBLE

YEAH, OUR COMMUNITY IS WATCHING OUR CHILDREN DRIFT AWAY WITHOUT A SINGLE CARE IN THE WORLD.

I heard but wasn’t phased

I heard but it didn’t resonate

I heard but it wasn’t clear

I read and grief overcame me

I feel deeply, earnestly and often for my students but hardly ever can cry.

Last night, I ALLOWED myself to cry.

Yep, the descriptors of Lundy Blue are spot on.

Yet people are leaving out a crucial fight he ALWAYS had to face: A fight about his HUE and FACIAL FEATURES.

Our lack of appreciation of our PERSONALIZED RAINBOW FROM ALMOST WHITE TO MIDNIGHT is astonishing and start with the hate of us.

*Colorism

In our area we flame, we hot, we jone and we heat up.

It is a difference between them and hurting.

He spoke to me of his hurt of how they called him names and he didn’t like it, who would?

He couldn’t do anything about his  features or hue nor should he, HE WAS NATURALLY  FLAWLESS to me.

He ALWAYS was flaming but he NEVER hurt anyone.

He would flame in my class and flash his beautiful smile to assure us he was not being facetious and when I couldn’t see his eyes because he is grinning so wide, he hurt and was apologetic. #ownership #leadership

I recall one day he and some students were flaming and when they got on his  facial featues, (his lips) I having lucious lips interjected to quell the soon to be heated battle and told him to look up the networth of augmentation, tanning and lip injections specifically and I ended with WHAT WE HAVE NATURALLY THEY PAY ROYALLY.

He was a jewel and will be missed, especially his beautiful smile and dancing eyes.

Yep, Jussa Sub!

Black folks WERE production

Black folks WERE lynched trying to read and write

Black foljs WERE always coveted for their minds and muscles

Black folks WERE profit makers

Black folks WERE the work force for free

Black folks WERE coveted

Black folks WERE the help

Black folks WERE the maids

Black folks WERE the skilled ones

Black folks WERE the talented ones

Black folks WERE the gifted ones

Black folks COULD NOT own our own INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Repost:

YOU SEE THE SET UP……….

We are here to finish the work of all of our Black ancestors that fought this enemy (Louis Farrakhan).

We were told to go to college & get degrees, so we could get a corporate job.

We were told to dress like them, act like them, walk like them & talk like them, so we can be accepted by them.

In the meantime, the Vietnamese were opening up nail salons.

The Koreans were opening up beauty supply stores.

The Chinese were opening up restaurants.

The Arabs were opening up gas stations.

The Jews controlled your music & record labels.

Every other nationality made money & got rich strictly off of Black Americans & they dress like, act like, walk like & talk like themselves (now let that sink in).

BLACK AMERICA: We have been educated & trained to be followers & slaves, while everyone else have been educated & trained to be leaders & slavemasters……….

Yet,

To those on here doing #Whitefolkwork, answer me this…..

White folk interview Blacks but decide if Blacks (College educated and lifelong learners) can not only have reputable employment but a comfortable living wage, right?

When Blacks are denied said employment and wages, in desperation for our FUTURE, we “STEAL” White Folk Education (say that shit slowly to yourself AND OUT FREAKIN LOUD).

How do YOU WHITE FOLK sleep peacefully at night as CHRISTIANS knowing YOU are turning away the LEAST OF GOD’S PEOPLE and in essence turning HIM away?

How do YOU sleep peacefully at night knowing that someone is REALLY HIRED to photograph and document POOR BLACK families to make sure THEY reside in YOUR COMMUNITY so their children can learn in safe learning environments, and have access to a rigorous, progressive and global curriculum?

How do you BOAST on diversity or wanting a UNITED AMERICA but is comfortable with the PRICETAGS saying WHITES ONLY, coloreds need not apply?

POVERTY DOES NOT EQUATE TO ASTUTENESS OR BRILLIANCE.

Poverty is we can’t shop at high end stores or buy groceries every time we run out of something….smh

Math

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HiStory

ReadIng

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Musicians are said to be ecclectic, artistic, gifted, ingenious, talented and naturally creative. Accomplished muscians must perfect subject matter.

Thinking over the master of keys herself, I am reminded of:

Beethoven who was DEAF

Stevie Wonder was is BLIND

Although these legends had DIFFERENT ABILITIES, they didn’t allow it to validate the views of society and what society would interpret as unachievable fete.

It is ALL in the RHYTHM.

Pitter patter pitter patter nope not right

She knew when the hands were on the fingers even when she was out of sight

Pluckety pluck pluckety pluck

She knew when the head was down and not on our music, sternly she would hit you and you knew to look up

Choppy choppy choppy that music is not smooth

There is a rhythm that should be felt when playing the piano where you cannot lose

I am glad she chose THIS MONTH to take her final breath.

Words such as legend, pillar, foundation, meticulous, perfectionist, honor comes to mind.

As the world PAUSE to remember and pay homage to WOMEN this month, this woman was the epitome of grace, dignity and humor and worthy of her flowers.

She was my piano teacher, not for long because my sister played better than I and I got mad at her hitting my fingers so I quit……lol

ENTREPRENURE, BUSINESS MINDED, PROFESSIONAL, JUST HUMBLE BUT BLUNT MOTHER KING…….

She was an usher in her final round on this ferris wheel who LEAD PEOPLE to designated seats BUT THIS WAS JUST HER…..

she lead budding pianists,

she lead the illitetate

she lead vocalists

She lead her descendants

she lead the ignorant

she rhythmically  LEAD!

I HONOR MOTHER KING EVEN MORE TODAY…..

SHE DID ONE OF THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACTS EVER, MADE THE ILLITERATE LITERATE.

SHE UNDERSTOOD NOT ONLY THE POWER OF WORDS AND READING BUT SHE LEAD THE IGNORANT TO EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT.

SHE CHOSE TO DEFY THE ODDS INTENTIONALLY, NOT DENY AND DETAIN AND DECLARE THEY CAN, WILL AND MUST.

NOPE:

NO BIG AFRO
NO FIST RAISED IN THE AIR
NO DASHIKI
NO MARCHING
NO BLACK BERET
NO ALL BLACK
NO CHANTING

YET DEFIANT
YET RESISTANT
YET RADICAL
YET A WARRIOR
YET SHE WAS LIT

IT IS IN US AND CAN ONLY COME THROUGH US INTO OUR FUTURE.

THE SYSTEM IS SO RIGGED, STUDENTS WHO FEEL SLIGHTED ARE SUING, SUING THE ULTRA RICH FOR PAYING THEIR CHILDREN WAY INTO SO CALLED PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS BECAUSE THEY ARE DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS, HAVE LIVED A LIFE OF SCAMMING, LYING, CHEATING AND STEALING

THE SYSTEM IS SO RIGGED, IMAGINE AMERICA PREYING UPON AFRICAN AMERICANS, FRAMING AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THEN UNJUSTLY AND UNLAWFULLY ARRESTING AFRICAN AMERICANS AND BECAUSE OF LEGISLATED POVERTY, AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE CAGED FOR YEARS WHILE INNOCENT

THE SYSTEM IS SO RIGGED, IMAGINE STRUGGLING TO LEARN IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS LACKING IN MANY RESOURCES, FAILING GENERATIONALLY AND GO OFF TO COLLEGE AND THEN GET TOLD YOU ARE OVERQUALIFIED FOR REPUTABLE EMPLOYMENT AFTER FINALLY GRADUATED OR TOLD JUST BECAUSE YOU GOT IT, DOESN’T MEAN THEY WILL OR HAVE TO HIRE YOU OR PAY YOU WHAT YOU ARE WORTH

THE SYSTEM IS SO RIGGED, INNERCITY STUDENTS SEE A ROTATING CAST OF SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS AND ARE TESTED BY THE STATE LIKE THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY LEGISLATED

THE SYSTEM IS SO RIGGED, THAT POOR BLACKS ARE CRIMINALIZED OR THREATENED WITH SOCIAL SERVICES WHEN THEY CHOOSE TO KEEP THEIR CHILDREN HOME

THE SYSTEM IS SO RIGHED THAT RESEARCH IS PROVIDED, TESTED AND PROVEN CONCERNING THE VERY REAULTS POOR BLACKS ARE LEGISLATED AND NOT A DAMN THING IS DONE

THE SYSTEM IS SO RIGGED THAT WE HAVE LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL ORGANIZATIONS AND BECAUSE OF BENIGN NEGLIGENCE, WE NOT ONLY ARE INVISIBLE WE CAN’T EVEN SUE FOR MALTREATMENT AND MALPRATICE

THS SYSTEM IS SO RIGGED THAT LAWS, POLICIES AND MANXATEA ARE ATTACHED TO MONEY AND WELL, WE WORK BUT WE WOEK THOSE LOW WAGE JOBS

THE SYSTEM IS SO RIGGED THAT WHITE  COATS ARE EASILY ACCISIBLE TO THOSE WITH HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION AND FINANCIAL STABILITY

THE SYSTEM IS SO RIGGED INSTEAD OF DIPLOMA THOSE CERTIFICATES SHOULD BE STANLED, 1W HEARS A SLAVE

THE SYSTEM IS SO RIGGED THEY TOLD US WE COULD NO LONG WHOOP OUR CHILDREN AND NKW THEY CREATED A ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY PREYING UPON BLACK AND BROWN CHILDREN AND BEGINNING THEIR DELINQUENT FILES

THE SYSTEM IS SO RIGGED, AMERICA CREATED THE LARGEST PLANTATION CALLED SCHOOL WHERE OUR  CHILDREN OF COLOR EXCELL ATHLETICALLY AND THEY HAVE TO WORRY  NOT ABOUT THEM SCHOLASTICALLY

THE SYSTEM IS SO RIGGED WHITE FOLKS PROFIT THE MOST FROM THE 9 AREAS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY: EDUCATION, ENTERTAINMENT, ECONOMICS, LAW AND ORDER, POLITICS, RELIGION, SEX AND WAR.

TAULMBOUT THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED…..

AS A SUBSTITUTE, WHEN LAST NAMES I AM SEMI FAMILIAR WITH COMES ACROSS MY ROSTER, I ALWAYS ASK, ARE YOU RELATED TO OR DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR FAMILY…….

WHEN I SAY I AM NOT TOO PARTICULAR WITH SPORTS, I DON’T ATTEND GAMES (WELL NOW I DO), I AM NOT A FOLLOWER OF THEIRS

I AM A HUGE FAN OF THEIRS THO…….

AS AN EDUCATOR, I DO LOVE HOW STUDIOUS THEY ARE

AS AN EDUCATOR, I DO LOVE HOW ATTENTIVE THEY ARE

AS  AN EDUCATOR, I DO LOVE HOW THEY SHOWED UP DAILY

AS AN EDUCATOR, I DO LOVE HOW THEY CONTROLLED THEMSELVES

AS AN EDUCATOR, I DO LOVE HOW THEY TOOK OWNERSHIP OF THEIR BEHAVIOR

AS AN EDUCATOR, I DO LOVE HOW THEY HAD A STRONG DESIRE TO CONSUME KNOWLEDGE

AS AN EDUCATOR, I DO LOVE HOW THEY PUT FOR AN EFFORT

AS AN EDUCATOR, I DO LOVE HOW THEY DIDN’T WAIT ON ANYONE TO TEACH BUT TOOK THE INITIATIVE TO LEARN

AS AN EDUCATOR, I DO LOVE THAT IN THESE HERE 89 BLOCKS, THEY GRACED A BLOCK

AS AN EDUCATOR, I DO LOVE THE FACT THAT I AM NOT SHOCKED THAT ONE IS KIND ENOUGH BU FIERCE TO TAKE WHAT HE WANTED

AS AN EDUCATOR, I DO LOVE THE FACT THAT I AM NOT SHOCKED THAT ONE KEPT HIS EYE ON THE PRIZE AS HE RANT TO THE 12 GRADE FINISH LINE

AS AN EDUCATOR, I DO LOVE THE FACT THAT I AM NOT SHOCKED THAT ONE JUST LEAPED OVER EVERY SINGLE OBSTACLES HE NEVER KNEW HE WOULD FACE AND HIT SLAM DUNKS CONSTINANTLY

THESE 3 YOUNG MEN WAS MY WHY!

Dear Black son, sorry this country see you as a thug

Dear Black son, sorry you are despised

Dear Black son, sorry your strength is threatening

Dear Black son, sorry they refuse to acknowledge your conviction

Dear Black son, sorry they fail to salute your morality

Dear Black son, sorry you were legislated 12 years a slave

Dear Black son, sorry the educators you saw didn’t even attempt to pull out of you your brilliance and magic

Dear Black son, sorry the reject your kindness, humility, joy and resilience

Dear Black son, sorry they hate your merciful ways

Dear Black son, sorry they see you as a beast

Dear Black son, sorry they refuse to honor your realness

Dear Black son, sorry for birthing a target

Dear Black son, sorry for being the worst example of womanhood as a Black woman possible

Dear Black son, sorry you are seen as violent

Dear Black son, sorry I couldn’t speak motherese

Dear Black son, sorry I am unable to protect you from these vicious laws and systems

Dear Black son, sorry you are framed

Dear Black son, sorry to see your struggle and you need not be struggling

Dear Black son, sorry the fast life summoned you because rent and bills weighed heavy on you

Dear Black son, sorry for every system that strips you of your manhood

Dear Black son, sorry for the times your confidence was met with defiance, disrespect, deterrence, detriment, dehumanization

Dear Black son, sorry your strength was never to be shown for you but for others

Dear Black son, sorry this country feel that you are an experiment

Dear Black son, sorry you became a dad and now realness has hit and it has hit hard

Dear Black son, sorry people you felt should help; refuse or can’t but aren’t obligated although they should

Dear Black son, sorry that your zip code, education attainment, being upstanding, disassociating yourself and all else STILL won’t protect you

Dear Black son, sorry this place is wicked that we birthed you in0

Dear Black son, sorry you are preyed upon

Dear Black son, sorry they reject you

Dear Black son, sorry they crafted many laws to web you into the prison industry

Dear Black son, sorry they never see how educated you are

Dear Black son, sorry they never see how talented you are

Dear Black son, sorry they paint you as a threat

Dear Black son, sorry bronchial issues are hereditary

Dear Black son, sorry preexisting conditions are hereditary

Dear Black son, sorry heart disease is hereditary

Dear Black son, sorry they don’t see your brilliance

Dear Black son, sorry you couldn’t hear my love, care and concern in my mean voice

Dear Black son, sorry I judged your peers harshly

Dear Black son, sorry you didn’t understand the stress I had when you walked out the door

Dear Black son, sorry they legislate your demise

Dear Black son, sorry they create ways to cause deviance instead of self reliance

Dear Black son, sorry to have to have “the talk” at such a tender age

Dear Black son, sorry for needing to prepare you for a world who hated you

Dear Black son, sorry for sending you to schools where they criminalized you

Dear Black son, sorry for sending you to schools where they stole your inquisitiveness, innocent, joy and love of learning

Dear Black son, sorry for telling the lists of what you cannot do and should not do and bet not do

Dear Black son, sorry for the not IFS but the WHENS

Dear Black sons, sorry for being helpless

Dear Black sons, sorry you are seen for your muscles

Dear Black son, sorry for your mind only needed while caged

Dear Black son, sorry for this unwarranted treatment

Dear Black son, sorry for your unjust treatment

Dear Black son, sorry that your sexuality is up for others to debate and not for you to lovingly embrace

Dear Black son, sorry you carry the weight of the various levels of blackness you are to exhibit upon your shoulders

Dear Black son, sorry prior to birth you had already a roadmap for an entire people completed

Dear Black son, sorry you were unable to be weak and show your feelings

Dear Black son, sorry you wear trained to be vicious

Dear Black son, sorry your introduction to women and relationship was a fragmented, broken, religious, psychologically scorned, abused, hurt and misused Black mom

Dear Black son, sorry you were not raised by your biological father

Dear Black son, sorry we were tricked into getting your biological father out of the house and those with great Black men, our scars were so deep we couldn’t appreciate, recognize or understand them or their ways

Dear Black son, sorry this country understood the power of a strong Black male presence in your life to become the astute and upright man you were predestined to become

Dear Black son, sorry for your maltreatment

Dear Black son, sorry for our collective complacency

Dear Black son, sorry for our collective expectancy

Dear Black son, sorry for our collective passiveness

Dear Black son, sorry for passing on my intergenerational trauma

Dear Black son, sorry for passing on my intergenerational rage

Dear Black son, sorry for passing on my intergenerational abuse

Dear Black son, sorry for the shackles you have always had around your life in America

Dear Black son, sorry for the lies America has always told concerning you

Dear Black son, sorry for the vicious ways you are treated

Dear Black son, sorry for the preparation but denial

Dear Black son, sorry for these racist, oppressive and divisive laws, rules and policies that understand and know just what is within so they assure you are unable to live your BEST LIFE

Dear Black son, sorry for the time spent behind bars due to policies that say they can and will do as they will even lie and strip you of your life and family

Dear Black son, sorry for the many men you saw coming in and out

Dear Black son, sorry for being exposed to hustling at such a tender age

Dear Black son, sorry for not being able to shield your eyes, ears, heart and soul

Dear Black son, sorry for trying to guide your steps down paths that lead to greatness and finding out with you, for us there is no paths

Dear Black son, sorry for being unable to frame my love, support and encouragement like others

Dear Black son, sorry for your guilt just with your hue and gender

Dear Black son, sorry you are viewed as an animal

Dear Black son, sorry we told you to protect and preserve you that you must wear certain attire but that was no guaranteed because you can STILL be cold with tags

Dear Black son, sorry for never addressing my mental illness

Dear Black son, sorry for neglecting you as I cared for your differently abled sibling

Dear Black son, sorry for never having time to just be present

Dear Black son, sorry for not having the wherewithal to allow you room to share or speak

Dear Black son, sorry for giving you a safe and healthy childhood

Dear Black son, sorry for being distant and cold because to understand one day an unjust knock would come, why bond

Dear Black son, sorry for the tears of confusion that were invisible

Dear Black son, sorry for this unwarranted racism

Dear Black son, sorry for my anxiety

Dear Black son, sorry for being accusatory

Dear Black son, sorry for being misunderstood

Dear Black son, sorry for not being engaged

Dear Black son, sorry for being selfish

Dear Black son, sorry for hurting you

Dear Black son, sorry for calling you hurtful names

Dear Black son, sorry for fighting for the world and excluding you

Dear Black son, sorry for not understand my important role as a MOM

Dear Black son, sorry America painted our role but let out soooooooo much

Dear Black son, sorry for this craziness you don’t deserve and never deserved

Dear Black son, sorry for all these things because the way America is set us, until we collectively say in unison…….

Sorry Black son,

Love a Black Mom