"YOU PEOPLE"

 

BLACK FATHERS MATTER and this is not a cliché, expression of endearment, tagline, slogan or muse, motto or mantra but THIS IS A FACT.

The structure of this country is to count them out and hold them down BUT WE MUST RESIST THIS.

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS work

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS protect

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS take the heat from women

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS carry the load

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS learn through trial and error

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS change the name of the game of role playing

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS show many emotions to their children

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS be attentive

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS become more engaged

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS break cycles

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS use resources to make better decisions

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS create new traditions

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS want to be in their children lives

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS be afraid

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS overly stressed out for fear of failing

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS unconditionally support

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS show up and volunteer

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS provide for the entire family

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS work tirelessly (at work and home)

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS deal with mental illness attempting to process this country

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS make a way out of no way

We see millennial BLACK FATHERS get underappreciated and underpaid but yet they show up and never disappoint

Yet, we see a wicked, malicious, vicious system that is against our BLACK FATHERS.

How do we go about creating a PROstitution where we ALL have to abide by the SAME laws, rules, mandates, codes and policies no matter the socioeconomic status or hue?

How do we go about getting rid of this DEBT SYSTEM that is man made? It keeps the noose around our necks as we are LEGISLATED the worse education, provided the LOWEST wages, hold degrees but NOT reputable employment to begin repayment and as we can see, funds go to everyone but the poor.

How do we go about eradicating these systems that prey upon our children, men and women of color and label them as guilty just because?

How do we go about eradicating these employment practices that those of us who are highly qualified, have years of experience and have obtained higher education for proficiency can be hired and elevated out of poverty or those who manage to make it through poverty can come in and show CEO’s some skills, gifts and talents and make your company what it could and should be with us?

How about CONgress stop legislating racist practices where AREAS zoned BLACK AND BROWN residents are faced with LIVING CONDITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT where having preexisting conditions are reserved for a certain population or class to be assured THEY ARE DENIED?

How about the most healthiest foods not be financially out of reach?

How about giving up some of your wealth so that the noose can be loosened up and we can ALL strive for LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS?

AMERICA DEBT SYSTEM they prey upon black, ignorant and trusting people. They legislate curriculum discrimination so we can’t intellectually understand how this DEBT work, we have no SOUND knowledge of finances because the key to LIBERATION is FINANCIAL LITERACY.

Financial illiteracy and being illiterate perpetuates PROFIT OVER PEOPLE and PROFIT OVER POVERTY. They tie home ownership, apartment rental in affluent areas, and so much more to this DEBT SYSTEM to make sure we can’t and won’t and as long as we allow it, it will continue.

The INSURANCE AGENCIES which understand that WE ARE SURVIVORS, DARING, THRIVING, RESILIENT AND A BOLD PEOPLE we do a GREAT deal of things unlawfully because the laws are unlawfully and unjustly written AGAINST US and through insurance they CRIMINALIZE the very people they deny reputable employment, zone to reside in areas where preexisting conditions is unavoidable.

The very BLACK MEN they push deeper into poverty, deny reputable employment and a livable wage to take care of his family, pay his rent, buy food, make sure he is able to be self sufficient without asking for assistance are NOW hunted through CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. Please, make it make sense. If I am DENIED reputable employment, if one ticket catches me in a web, if the laws prey upon me HOW CAN I CARE FOR MY CHILD?

 

 

 

THE FIRSTS ARE ALWAYS THE HARDEST. I DEDICATE THIS TO SOMEONE WHO IS NEAR AND DEAR AS SHE FACE HER FIRST!

 

WHEN SHE TOOK ON THE RESPONSBILITY OF CARING FOR ONE SICK PARENT AND ENDED UP BOTH; SHE STOPPED LIFE AND IT WAS IN THAT MOMENT, I STAYED ON HER TO KEEP HER HEAD ABOVE WATER, I KNOW SHE KNEW EXACTLY MY CALLING PASSION, AND WILL.

 

I GOT A CHANCE TO SEE MY FRIEND, JUGGLE, MAKE DO, SAY NO, SHOW UP, PUT DOWN, PULL OUT AND END EXPERIENCE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING ON EARTH; TO BE BY BOTH HER PARENTS SIDE AS THEY TRANSITIONED AND SHE DID IT WITH PURE LOVE, PURE DEED, AND PURE ATTENTION LIKE A CHILD SHOULD.

 

O YOU CAN BET I AM INDEED PROUD OF THE WOMAN SHE IS AND DAUGHTER SHE WAS.

THE MOMENT WE CONCIEVE WE HAVE:

MANY EMOTIONS

MANY THOUGHTS

MANY EXPECTATIONS

MANY DEMANDS

MANY WISHES

MANY DUTIES

MANY APPOINTMENTS

MANY DIAGNOSES

MANY FEARS

MANY FACTS

MANY FEARS

MANY WAYS OF FEELING

MANY WAYS OF COMMUNICATING

MANY WAYS OF TRAVELING

MANY ROADS TO TRAVEL

MANY PEOPLE POCKING AND PRODDING

MANY VERBIAGE WE DON’T UNDERSTAND BUT NOD

MANY WHO KNOW US BETTER THAN US AND FOR SOME, NEVER ASK US

MANY JOYS

MANY FAULTS

MANY MISTAKES

MANY HURTS

MANY PAINS

MANY I WISH I DIDN’T AND DID

MANY NEVER AGAINS

MANY, MANY

MANY REGRETS

MANY STRENGTHS

MANY WEAKNESSES

MANY ACCUSATIONS

MANY DENIALS

MANY NEEDS

MANY WAYS TO SHOW OUR LOVE LANGUAGE

MANY, MANY, MANY AND WITH ALL OF THIS WE MAKE ONE BIG FAT ASS MOMMA!

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

 

 

THIS FIRST DAY OF MAY, THIS MONTH WE HONOR MOTHERS AND THE BIRTH YOU ARE GIVING TO A MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE, RIGHT AND EQULAITY IS GIVING ME LIFE

 

AS AN EDUCATOR, THERE IS NOTHING LIKE SEEING CHILDREN SNATCH THEIR VOICE, DIGNITY, RIGHTS AND INDIVIDUALITY WHEN OTHERS WANT THEM TO BE CONTENT, SILENT AND SUBMISSIVE TO LAWS AND RULES THAT HAD THE HUE BEEN DIFFERENT THERE IS NO WAY THAT HAPPENS: RISE UP, SPEAK OUT AND MAKE YOUR DEMANDS KNOWN

 

WHITE PEOPLE CAN IMITATE BLACK FACE, SURE BECAUSE UNDER THE CONSTITUTION THE HAVE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION NO MATTER HOW HURTFUL; THEY WILL AND DO

 

BUT WHITE PEOPLE CAN NEVER DUPLICATE WHAT WE INITIATE, ORIGINATE, OR CREATE

 

TO MY YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CHI THAT ATTEND THIS WONDERFUL SCHOOL, THIS IS YOUR MOMENT IN HISTORY TO CALL OUT, CALL IN, AND CALL UPON YOUR ELDERS TO STAND ALONG SIDE YOU FOR TRUTH, RIGHT AND JUSTICE

 

BLACK FACE IS USED BECAUSE OF THEIR INFERIORITY, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU HONESLTY BUT SIMULTANEOUSLY, EVERYTHING TO DO WITH YOU AND YOUR GOOD

BLACK FACE IS USED TO DEMEAN BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT IS WITHIN THEM, THEY ARE SOME OF THE MOST SELF-RIGHTEOUS, ENTITLED, INCONSIDERATE AND PRIVILEGED AND YOUR GENERATION IS RISING UP AGAINST IT UNLIKE EVER BEFORE AND I SAY; GET US TO 10CM IN A UNIFIED MANNER

BLACK FACE IS USED TO STEAL IDENTITIES AND WE ALL KNOW THAT THEY CAN’T BEGIN TO HANDLE WHAT IS NORMAL TO US AS A PEOPLE, THEY JUST CAN’T AND WE SEE IT TIME AND TIME AGAIN

 

RIGHT THE WRONGS

DEMAND JUSTICE

ERADICATE BENIGN NEGLIGENCE

KNOW AND UNDERSTAND YOUR POWER

 

YES, HISTORY HAS SHOWN US TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT BLACK FACE IS USED TO MOCK, BE RACIST BUT ALLOW ME TO “SHIFT” YOUR MINDSET A BIT:

BLACK FACE COMES IN HUES OF MIDNIGHT TO PASSING FOR WHITE

BLACK FACE HAS ATTACHED TO IT A CREATIVITY THAT CAN’T BE DESCRIBED

BLACK FACE HAVE COVETED ATHLETICISM ATTACHED TO IT JYUST LOOK AT THE NFL, NBA AND OTHER SPORTS THAT WE DOMINATE. IT IS NEVER ABOUT ABILITY BUT AVAILABILITY SO THEY MANAGED TO ATTACH DOLLARS AND DISTANCE TO ASSURE US THAT WE ARE LOCKED OUT OF COMPETITION BECAUSE THEY ALREADY KNOW WHAT WE WILL DO AND HAVE ALWAYS DONE

 

THIS YOUNG GENERATION REALLY HAVE THE WORLD LAUGHING AT THEM BECAUSE ALTHOUGHT THE REAL  BLACK FACE HAVE BEEN HISTORICALLY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THROUGH LAWS, POLICIES, RULES, MANDATES AND CODES: IT WAS THE BLACK FACE WHO WAS THE ONE SOUGHT TO ENTERTAIN THOSE WHO CREATED LAWS (AINT THAT SOME SHIT)

 

BLACK FACE WAS TAUGHT TO INVENT BECAUSE AMERICA DENIED AND REJECTED; AND WE HAVE BEEN THE REASON FOR MANY ADVANCES IN THIS JOINT

BLACK FACE WAS TOLD THE BIBLE SO WE COULD GET IN LINE, HAVE LOW ESTEEM ABOUT OURSELVES AS WHITE AMERICA MONETIZED, PROFITED FROM AND CAPITALIZED OFF OF OUR INGENUITY AND GREAT BLACK MINDS (HIDDEN FIGURES OR HENRY BLAIR)

 

BLACK FACE HAS ONE OF THE STRONGEST WILLS, MINDS, WORK ETHICS THAT THE MOST WEAKEST PEOPLE COULDN’T UNDERSTAND OUR WHY, HOW, AND WHEN AS THEY WORKED OVERTIME TO ASSURE US THAT WE COULDN’T AND WOULDN’T.

SO, MY BABIES IN CHI WHEN YOU SEE AND HEAR THE IGNORANCE OF BLACK FACE ALLOW IT TO REMIND YOU OF NOT ONLY WHOSE SHOULDERS YOU STAND UPON BUT THE MANY INVENTIONS THESE CLOWNS ANCESTORS STOLE BY ASSURING US THAT WE COULD NOT READ OR WHITE.

SO YES, BLACK FACE IS BAD, BEAUTIFUL AND BRILLIANT.

WEAR YOUR GOD GIVEN BLACK FACE WELL AND WEAR IT WITH PRIDE.