Before the baby arrives, the PAIN is heightened, excruciating, unbearable, discomfort is the main course and that rhythmic breathing is tossed out the window and then THE PURPOSE.

2020, THE WORLD have seen AMERICA CLOSELY AND CLEARLY because poor Blacks are accustomed and numb to it.

My purpose is writing, journaling, revealing, healing, showing compassion and loving unconditionally.

In reflecting on 2020; we were on lockdown of a DEADLY PANDEMIC and others STEAL had to getaway, STEAL defied the requests of those on the frontline, STEAL had to open and reopen businesses, STEAL put profit over people, STEAL connect and reconnect, STEAL travel, STEAL love on their families and friends and STEAL without restraint, consideration, regard, unapologetically and unphased about others lives and health.

From Pen To Pad
From Pain To Purpose
From Picturesque To Prize
From Pressure To Production
From Pages To Podiums
From Presenting To Positioning

Yeah, I write and mean everything I write.

#nia
#kwanzaa365
#KwanzaaPrinciples
#Kwanzaa2020
#Kwanzaa
#kwanzaaDay5
#purpose

Prebirth attendant
Purpose
Passion
Prenatal
Passover
Pregnancy
Prime
Position
Pleasure
Parental
Pain
Postnatal
Passed Over
Projection
Premonition
Pruning
Poignant interactions
Post birth attendant

Each of those words is centered around us as a BLACK people who has gotten away from our village, community and tribe of which was the root cause of how we succeeded, advanced, achieved, excelled, dominated, mastered, understood, and elevated. We have always been prominent in the world’s eye and this is why they legislated our ignorance of who we were, what we accomplished and achieved and our major contributions. They kept us ignorant of politics and how the country is ran. They infiltrated and invaded our BLACK organizations, businesses, churches and schools to weaken us, dilute us, devalue us, degrade us cause us to have disdain towards our own selves. We have not only a rich history but strong legacy’s of resilience, revolutionary, radicalism, excellence, merit, intellectualism, innovation, inventions, and how we maneuvered through a country who sought to kill, hurt, harm and destroy us. I always say there would be NO USa without US, BLACK people. It is our influence, our culture, our music, our art, our athleticism, our academics, our leadership, our lives of which is the fabric of our nation’s advancement and progress.

LOOK!

Look, I always say that45 is WF on STEROIDS.

Look, 45 has an ego out of this world and so do they.

Look, 45 can’t be seen as weak and neither can they.

Look, 45 can’t lose at anything and neither can they.

Look, 45 is ineffective and so are they.

Look, 45 is incompetent and so are they.

Look, 45 is immoral and so are they.

Look, 45 is illegal and so are they.

Look, 45 is ignorant and so are they.

Look, 45 is indignant and so are they.

Look, 45 is a mirror of them and WE ALL KNOW IT.

LOOK!

I tell our girls and students that it is NEVER and has NEVER been about their or our ability, desire, drive, GRIT, will, talents, skills, gifts, creativity or want to but the fact that America has ALWAYS intentionally came up with ways to LEGALLY omit, deny, reject, ban and exclude us WHILE simultaneously defunding and withholding the very essential funds so we could BE AND DO US.

LOOK!

AMERICA HAS FOR TOO MANY YEARS DID MANY MAJOR RESEARCH ON WHY WE ARE MISSING IN THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER AND EVEN SAID THAT WE ARE WIRED DIFFERENTLY, ATTACHED POVERTY AND OTHER FALSE NARRATIVES AND THEEW IN STATSITICS AND DATA AND ONCE GIVEN ACCESS, PRIVILEGE, OPPORTUNITY AND FUNDS WE TOOK OVER AS USUAL. #MURICALSHAPPEN

LOOK!

Talking about who is INFERIROR and WEAK? Tuh

LOOK AT THE LEVEL OF VITRIOL
LOOK AT THE VENOM
LOOK AT THE LEVEL OF VIOLENCE
LOOK AT THE LEVEL OF TERROR
LOOK AT THE LEVEL OF MALICIOUSNESS
LOOK AT OUR LAWS
LOOK AT OUR RULES
LOOK AT OUR CODES
LOOK AT OUR REGULATIONS
LOOK AT OUR POLICIES
LOOK AT OUR MANDATE

LOOK WHO ARE TEACHING OUR BLACK CHILDREN THEIR WAYS AND NOW THEY LOOK, SOUND AND ACT UNRECOGNIZABLE TO OUR CULTURE.

LOOK!

To: Rev. Pastor Traci Devon Blackmon

As you prepare to put a PERIODT at the end of CHAPTER 11 of your life’s journey followed by THE END, IT IS WRITTEN and WELL DONE THEY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT; you are WEILDING another chapter of which is beautifully unfolding before our eyes because YOU have no chains holding you and the many ways you minister are all intentional. The way you HEAL no matter the setting is all divine.

PREGGO is what I said to you in one post so I will now explain it to you. Pregnancy is different for EVERY woman just as the birthing of her baby.

Some women are bed ridden from the moment of conception to the trip to the gurney.

Some women have severe morning sickness

Some women eat up everything while others can’t hold down anything

Some women swell beyond recognition while look like they are not pregnant at all

Some women work up until the moment of deliver while some never knew they were or could get pregnant

Some have stillborn while others have preemies

Some have full term babies while some have stubborn

EITHER WAY what’s on the inside of them MUST be birthed.

SOMETHING INSIDE SO STRONG!!!!

I decided in my own way to say, WELL DONE THEY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT!

I could not think of a better way to do this tribute other than RHYTHMICALLY ACROSTIC to convey what you mean to us and your worth.

To our girls, today YOU are their Phyllis Wheatley, Harriet Tubman, Shirley Chisolm, Beatty Shabazz, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott, King, Thelma Ware, Mamie Mobley, Ruby Bridges, Fannie Lou Hamer and the like.

During this CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEment; you are their voice, hue, gender and funny one.

So here it goes song bird:

Timely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaN4t6sZYPs

Ripe

Available

Caring

Intuitive

Devoted

Empathetic

Veracious

Open

Noble

Boundless

Loving

Alert

Cultivating

Kindhearted

Mediator

Optimistic

Necessary

WELL DONE!!!

Today starts the first day of Kwanzaa.

Today starts the day of us reflecting, honoring, paying homage, appreciating and prayerfully carrying on our African heritage in African-American culture.

Today starts us deeply understanding what our ancestors did and how we as a Black people have arrived to where we are today.

HAPPY KWANZAA!

ASSIMILATION, DESEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION ALLOW US TO FORGET OUR SEGREGATION.

WE KNOW HOW TO CELEBRATE AND WHEN WE CELEBRATE; WE DO IT LOUD, COLORFUL, INTENTIONALLY AND ON PURPOSE.

I SHARED A VIDEO EARLIER ABOUT A BLACK GRADUATION VS. A WHITE GRADUATION

WHITE PEOPLE DO THINGS IN “dignified and silent” MANNERS BECAUSE TO REACH CERTAIN MILESTONES, TO ACCOMPLISH CERTAIN TASKS, TO REACH CERTAIN LEVELS IS JUST ATTACHED TO THEIR HUE AND INCOME SO THEREFORE THEY KNOW AND EXPECT IT TO HAPPEN

I AM REMINDED OF WHAT MICHAEL BROWN’S MOM, MS. LESLIE MCSPADDEN SAID, “DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT TOOK FOR ME TO GET HIM TO GRADUATE?”

SPOKEN FROM THE HEART AND SOUL OF EVERY BLACK WOMAN, EVEVERY BLACK MOTHER!

AMERICA, DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT WAS FOR US TO GET TO SEE THIS DAY, THE DAY OUR CHILDREN CAN GRADUATE, WALK ACROSS A STAGE AND PRIDEFULLY GET A DIPLOMA OR DEGREE OR LICENSE?

WHY OF COURSE YOU DO, YOU HAVE IT SET UP THAT THEY CAN’T OR WON’T.

AS A BLACK MOTHER OF THIS MOVEMENT AND LIVING IN THIS MOMENT; DAY TO DAY, HOUR BY HOUR AND SECOND BY SECOND WE KNOW AT ANY MOMENT WE CAN BE ROBBED OF THIS AND ANY JOYOUS OCCASION, THIS EXCITEMENT, THIS PRIDE AND THIS DAY OF EXUBERANCE AS WE AWAIT TO HEAR THE NAME OF OUR SON OR DAUGHTER NAMES BEING CALLED BECAUSE THEY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED GREATNESS AND MET ALL REQUIREMENTS TO BECOME BIGGER, MORE AND GREATER.

GREATNESS IS ALWAYS SNUFFED FROM US

GREATNESS IS ALWAYS DENIED US

GREATNESS IS ALWAYS REJECT US

GREATNESS IS ALWAYS SOMETHING WE ARE OMITTED

GREATNESS IS SOMETHING THAT EXUDE US

GREATNESS IS SOMETHING THAT EMBODY US

GREATNES IS WHAT WE DO

GREATNESS IS WHO WE ARE

GREATNESS IS WHAT WE PRODUCE

YET,

WE HAVE ROADBLOCKS

WE HAVE DETOURS

WE HAVE LAWS, RULES, CODES, MANDATES, POLICIES AND REGULATIONS THAT SAYS EVERYONE BUT US AND WE STILL CAN, DO, WILL AND MUST CONTINUE TO

THIS IS WHY WE CAN BE AT THE SAME CELEBRATION BUT THE RESPONSE IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE IN THE WORDS OF LESLIE MCSPADDEN, ” DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT WAS FOR ME TO GET HIM TO GRADUATE?”

YET AMERICA OPPRESSIVE, SUPPRESSIVE AND RACIST TULES, LAWS, CODED, POLICIES, MANDATES AND LEGISLATIONS HAVE BEEN REWORDED, REPACKAGED, RESTATED AND REENVISIONED BUT THE ROOT IS INDEED METAMORPHED AND INTERTWINED TO THE ROOT AND THAT IS STEAL OUR JOY, SILENCE OUR LAUGHTER, HARSHLY CRITIQUE OUR HAPPINESS ALL IN THE GUISE OF SLAVES STILL CAN’T BE HAPPY AND IN THE GUISE PF ASSIMILATION AND PROGRESS WE ARE DOING THE BIDDING FOR THEM:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRoa3MqD/

NOISE CONTROL

NOISE ORDINANCES

DISORDERLY CONDUCT

As an educator in da hood:

We are not essential enough for higher salaries

We are not essential enough for dignity, respect and honor

We are not essential enough to sit at decision making tables and lead the discussions

We are not essential enough to know what’s best for our students since we are on the frontline

We are not essential enough to have smaller class sizes to freely pull from all of our students

We are not essential enough to sling magic minus the script and criminalization of poverty

We are not essential enough for investing in our innate gifts, talents and skills that we bring to the classroom

We are not essential enough to fully resource our schools and classrooms

We are not essential enough to provide needed clinicians so we can educate whole babies

We are not essential enough to see EVERY SINGLE HIRE AS AN IMPORTANT STAKE HOLDER in each one of their future

But now we are essential enough for the vaccine?

But now we are essential enough to be top priority?

But now we are essential?

TIMING!

Timing is inevitable
Timing is process
Timing is preordained
Timing is pruning
Timing is planting
Timing is uprooting
Timing is building
Timing is teaching

TIMING:

Take life’s lemons and produce lemonade
Take life’s struggles and produce strength
Take life’s pain and produce purpose
Take life’s journey and produce joy
Take life’s burdens and produce blessings
Take life’s masks and produce MADE FOR IT
Take life’s worries and produce winnings
Take life’s let downs and produce rich lessons
Take life’s hurts and produce hope
Take life’s failures and produce strong faith
Take life’s shame and produce success

Life happens with and without our permission
Life happens no matter what, where and when

LIFE HAPPENS

Now when the time come and we are jolted into reality; will we be RIPE?

In order for trees to become FULL BLOOM, it must WEATHER EVERY SEASON and all 4 comes in different TIMINGS.

AmeriKKKa have been robbing BLACK LIVES for over 2,000 plus years.

They stole land
They stole inventions
They stole personhoods
They stole dignity
They make sure WE are the sickest
They zone us to reside in crime ridden areas

NOW that President and First Lady Obama are about to turn in their keys, AMERIKKKA once again has robbed BLACK LIVES of GREAT LEADERSHIP, of ALL FALLING UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF AMERIKKA, of EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY, of HARMONY because POC STILL ARE NOT SEEN AS OR TREATED AS EQUAL TO WHITES.

THE KEY IS WE!

We have listened
We have learned
We have met
We have shared
We have supported
We have felt
We have feared
We have dined
We have facilitated
We have spoken
We have laughed
We have marched
We have stood side by side
We have grown
We have become energized
We have become encouraged
We have empowered
We have outgrown
We have perfected
We have allowed
We have bruised
We have misunderstood
We have chosen
We have regretted
We have become courageous
We have become defiant
We have become fierce
We have evolved
We have grown stronger
We have been comrades

WE IS KEY!