"YOU PEOPLE"

 

STRANGE FRUIT!

 

BILLIE HOLIDAY HAD A SONG TITLED, STRANGE FRUIT SPEAKING ON LYNCHINGS OF BLACK BODIES.

 

BILLIE HOLIDAY WAS VERY MUCH SO SEEN AS THE ENEMY OF WHITE INFERIORITY.

 

BILLIE HOLIDAY HAD ONE SOOTHING AND SULTRY VOICE THAT DIDN’T MINCE WORDS.

 

BILLIE HOLIDAY WAS A WELL RESPECTED BLACK WOMAN WHO COULDN’T HANDLE THE UNWARRANTED AND UNJUSTIFIED RACISM.

 

BILLIE HOLIDAY MOVED, SWAYED AND ROCKED WITH SINGING AND THAT SHE DID WELL AND FOUND HER LANE IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION.

 

STRANGE FRUIT!

 

TODAY, THIS YOUNG IGNORANT PERSON USED THIS SONG UNBEKNOWNST OF ITS HISTORY AS A COVER AND A MOCKERY AND UTTERLY SOUNDED FOOLISH WITH A FOOLISH FOLLOWING.

 

I BEGAN TO REFLECT ON THE INTENTIONAL AND JUSTIFIED IGNORANCE OF OUR CHILDREN AND HOW BOLD THEY ARE TO WALK IN AND UPHOLD THE IGNORANCE OF THEIR ANCESTORS.

 

AS I SEE AND GREATLY APPRECIATE, YOUNG BLACK FOLKS ARE INDEED WOKE AF.

 

BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA MOVE CONSCIOUSLY AND SUBCONSCIOUSLY BECAUSE WE ARE WELL AWARE THAT AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT IT CAN ALL BE OVER FOR US OR OURS.

 

STRANGE FRUIT!

 

THIS IS SAD, SORRY, DISRESPECTFUL AND TOTALLY THE WAY WHITE INFERIROTY WANT.

 

AMERICA DON’T WANT US TO TEACHE THE TRUTH.

 

AMERICA DON’T WANT US TO EXECUTE CRITICAL RACE THEORY.

 

AMERICA DON’T WANT US TO UNCOVER WHAT WE LIVE.

 

AMERICA WANT THIS FUTURE TO NOT KNOW, NOT WANT TO UNDERSTAND AND EMPHATICALLY REJECT THEIR PAST AND SEE IT AS INSIGNIFICANT AS WE SEE AMERICA GET US TO LEAD THE GENOCIDE OF OUR OWN PEOPLE.

 

STRANGE FRUIT!

 

AMERICA UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS GREAT AND MIGHTY POWER IN OUR UNITY.

 

AMERICA DON’T CARE ABOUT OUR BICKERING, DISAGREEMENTS, IGNORNACE, FIGHTING, BELITTLING, FEELING DISRESPECTED OR ANY OF THOSE NON ISSUES FOR FREAL.

 

AMERICA RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES, REPLACED THE NOOSE WITH BULLETS AND NOW AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE KILLING AFRICAN AMERICANS.

 

AMERICA RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES, REPLACED BLACK TEACHERS WITH WHITE TEACHERS.

 

AMERICA RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES, ALLOWED WHITE PEOPLE TO COME INTO OUR HOMES AND TELL US HOW TO RAISE OUR CHILDREN WHILE NOT CHANGING POLICIES AND PROVIDING HIGHER INCOMES TO MEET THEIR NEEDS AND DEMANDS.

 

AMERICA RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES, DISMANTLED, DISSECTED, DISMEMBERED, DISENGAGED AND DETACHED THE BLACK CULTURE AND FAMILY.

 

AMERICA RIGH BEFORE OUR EYES, STILL TOOK THE HEAD FROM OUR FAMILIES AND CAUSED THE BLACK WOMAN TO BE BITTER OVERWORKED, OVERSTRESSED AND ABUSIVE IN MANY WAYS TO HER OFFSPRING SO THAT THESE SYSTEMS CAN WEB HIM AND HER UP.

 

STRANGE FRUIT!

 

CAMERAS AND VIDEOS WERE AROUND THEN TOO BUT INSTEAD OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY; THEY MADE POST CARD, THE MADE GREETING CARDS, NO ONE WAS ARRESTED, CHARGED OR IMPRISONED KIND OF LIKE NOW WITH ALL OF THESE STRANGE FRUITS WHOSE INNOCENT BLOOD IS SPLATTERED ON THESE GOOD OLD AMERICAN STREETS.

WE NEED TO AND WE MUST STOP SPENDING MONEY ON THESE BODY CAMERAS FOR THESE RACIST ASS, INFERIOR ASS, HATE FILLED ASS COPS WHO AREN’T AFRAID.

 

WE HAVE PROOF WITH STRANGE FRUIT!

 

THEY TURNED A BLIND EYE, DEAF EAR AND WERE ALWAYS ALLOWED TO WALK AROUND HEARTLESS AND DISCOMPASSIONED AND IT HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.

 

WE HAVE PROOF WITH STRANGE FRUIT!

 

IN THE BIBLE THERE ARE 9 FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT: LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, LONGSUFFERING, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS AND SELF CONTROL

AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RIPE FRUIT.

 

Here thinking on this student loan debt, credit shenanigans, eviction moratorium, black tax , these college degrees are meaningless and with two high school daughters who own any volleyball court.

IZE TIED BOSS.

Black women, can we COLLECTIVELY declare ourselves no longer as #HiddenFigure?

 

I want you and I to embody our JUSS AND BEGIN BIRTHING ALL OVER THE WORLD.

 

Everyone watch us, monitor us, study us and this thing has made it easier to target us and we fall right in the trap of elevating, empowering, teaching and assuring all others are good as we stay in these hoods.

 

400 plus  years, we have been meek, mild, humble, silent, secretive, willing to share our intellectual property freely, brilliance and education and others profited immensely from us.

 

400 plus years, our minds, muscles and offsprings have been used as prey and literally banked upon.

 

400 plus years, we have held close the teachings of a bible that rejected, neglected and fooled us into upholding white inferiority and we honored it, respected it, adhered to it to only be disrespected, rejected, denied, omitted, set up, unforgiven and hunted.

 

400 plus years, we have seen our country regift ways for us to be KEPT AND LOCKED out, down and up.

 

400 plus years, we have shown much empathy, sympathy, compassion, resilience, strength, weakness and progress.

 

Even in the bible from 1619 to 2019, it speaks on 400 years of holding us enslaved folks captive illegally, immorally, unjustly and against our will.

 

2020 was the year of CLEAR AND PRECISE VISION.

 

America literally legislate and zone us into areas where ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE IS KNOWN

 

WE OWN THE FASHION AND COSMETIC INDUSTRIES

 

WE ARE THE MOST EDUCATED BUT UNDEREMPLPOYED AND DROWNING IN STUDENT DEBT

 

WE ARE THE LARGEST CONGREGANTS IN BLACK CHURCHES WHO FAITHFULLY  PAY 10% OF OUR EARNINGS IN TITHES AND WE GIVE OFFERINGS AS WELL WHO DO NOT POUR BACK INTO OUR SCHOOLS, COMMUNITIES OR HEALTHCARE AND YET DEPOSIT BILLIONS OF IT INTO WHITE BANKS THAT DENY US ACCESS, OPPORTUNITIES AND OVER CHARGE US FOR BEING POOR WITH OUR OWN TITHES AND OFFERINGS.

 

WE BIRTH AND NURTURE CHILDREN DOMINATE ON ANY AND EVERY COURT, FIELD AND GYM.

 

WE ARE PLACED IN POSITIONS THAT INSULT OUR SKILLS, INTEGRITY, EDUCATION, INTELLIGENCE,  YEARS OF EXPERIENCES AND TALENTS

 

WE DROP OUR CHILDREN OFF TO SCHOOLS WHERE EDUCATION MALPRACTICE AND CURRICULUM DISCRIMINATION IS LITERALLY LEGISLATED

 

WE SHOW UP TO PRESERVE DEMOCRACY WHILE WE ARE SILENCED, REJECTED, NEGLECTED, DISRESPECTED AND TREATED LIKE WE ARE IGNORANT AND INVISIBLE AS AMERICA RELY UPON AND COVET OUR INTELLIGENCE, BRILLIANCE, MUSCLES, MINDS, MAGIC, SKILLS AND INGENUITY.

#BrokenFixer
#WomenHistoryMonth
#BW

#BlackMagic
#CorettaScottKing
#HowDoWeWin
#RiseUp
#TodayIsTheDay

BLACK WOMEN LONG AS DNA!

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were nursing their young (STILL IS, IT JUST LOOKS DIFFERENTLY TEACHERS, SOCIAL WORKERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT, PSYCHOLOGISTS, OWNERS OF SPORT TEAMS AND CLUBS, ETC.)

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were seeing after their young

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were stripped of their rights

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were seen as unattractive

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were spineless

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were seen as weak

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were seen as helpless

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were seen as hopeless

AS long as BLACK WOMEN took the beat down

AS long as BLACK WOMEN had no/low self esteem

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were unable to vote

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were stripped of their dignity, individuality, somebodies and humanity

AS long as BLACK WOMEN didn’t see, know or understand their strength

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were catering to White folks needs

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were silent, submissive and noncombatant,

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were compliant

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were not defiant

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were cleaning

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were cooking

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were creating home remedies and naturally healing

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were reproducing

AS long as BLACK WOMEN knew their place and stayed in it

AS long as BLACK WOMEN spoke less and listened and obeyed more

AS long as BLACK WOMEN kept views to themselves

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were unable to read and write

AS long as BLACK WOMEN were not opinionated

As long as BLACK WOMEN made magic happen

AS LONG AS BLACK WOMEN WERE MAMMY, WE WERE IN OUR RIGHTFUL PLACE AND IDEAL

This quote by Judge Taney in the Dred Scott case (BLACKS HAVE NO RIGHTS IN WHICH A WHITE MAN WAS BOUND TO RESPECT) is it NOT relevant TODAY?

THE FUNNY SIDE OF LIFE, this timing is impeccably amazing.

They had platforms unlike before:

TO BE

TO EXHIBIT

TO EXUDE

TO SAY

TO REPRESENT

TO HOLD ACCOUNTABLE

TO MAKE DEMANDS

AND yet, they were silenced and BOTH from OFF of the platform to mute OUR, ALL OF OUR VOICES.

WHEN BLACK WOMEN COME UP, WE PULL OTHERS UP

WHEN BLACK WOMEN SUCCEED, WE ALL SUCCEED

WHEN  BLACK WOMEN BIRTH, WE EXTRACT BABIES FROM OTHERS

JUST CHECK OUT HISTORY.

The moment BLACK WOMEN began to see, enlighten, empower, acknowledge, be unapologetic, and tap into our innate abilities, skills, talents and STRENGTH BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL WITHIN, the world began to tremble.

We BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA AND EVERYWHERE POSSESS SUCH: power, muscle, burliness, robustness, toughness, resilience, spirit, backbone, courageousness, firmness, soundness, solidity, durability, sturdiness, influence, dominance, clout, ascendancy depth, advantage, forcefulness, fervor, soundness, validity, persuasiveness, asset, forte, aptitude, talented, skilled, specialty, enormous, extensive, great magnitude, gigantuous, simply put STRENGTH just because WE HAD TO ALWAYS BE STRONG.

IT’S IN OUR LONG AS DNA.

Think I’m lying?

CORETTA SCOTT KING came from the grave baby about Jeff Sessions and said DIDN’T I TELL YOU BACK IN 1986 HE WAS NO GO FOR PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BLACK PEOPLE?

Isn’t it funny the things that comes natural to us and we get great enjoyment in executing no is mandated and we must have certifications, licensure and degrees?

 

HOW ARE THESE “other” ATHLETES IN ALL OF THOSE SPORTS TOP OR THE BEST WHEN AMERICA CREATE WAYS INNER CITY CHILDREN ATHLETE’S AREN’T ABLE TO ATTEND, ACCESS AND COMPETE BECAUSE OF DOUBLE D’S? REMOVE THESE LAWS, RULES, CODES, MANDATES, POLICIES THAT IS ATTACHED TO BIG DOLLARS AND TRAVEL AND WATCH US WORK IT AND DO AS YOU DID; OWN IT.

“Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.” Coretta Scott King

What used 2 B aint gotta continue 2 B.

 

YOU ARE THE GREATEST

YOU ARE THE GOAT

YOU ARE EXCEPTIONAL

YOU ARE MAGICAL

YOU ARE THE EPITOME OF GREATNESS

YOU ARE GIFTED

YOU ARE TALENTED

YOU ARE SKILLED

YOU ARE INVIGORATING

KEEP YOUR INTEGRITY

KEEP YOUR RESILIENCE

KEEP YOUR OWNERSHIP OF THE WOMAN YOU ARE

KEEP YOUR INFLUENCE

KEEP YOUR CHALLENGE

KEEP YOUR INSPIRATION

KEEP YOUR INNOVATION

KEEP YOUR ILLUMINATION

SEE YOUR COUNTRY

SEE YOUR FUTURE

SEE YOUR PASSION

SEE YOUR DREAMS

SEE YOUR KINDNESS

SEE YOUR AND OTHERS HUMANITY

SEE YOUR STRENGTH

SEE YOUR WEAKNESS

SEE YOUR ABILITY TO SHIFT ATMOSPHERE

SEE YOUR HEART

BE UNAPOLOGETICCALLY BRAVE

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY UNDERSTANDING

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY SLAYING IN YOUR LANE

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY MAGICAL

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY YOU

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY MINDFUL

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY HUMANE

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY CONFIDENT IN YOU AND OTHERS

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY OUR SHERO

WALK IN YOUR PURPOSE

WALK TALL

WALK IN  YOUR HERITAGE

WALK OUR YOUNG INNER CITY BABIES IN THE WAY THEY DESIRE

WALK INTENTIONAL

WALK FEIRLESSLY

WALK UNSCRIPTED

WALK BOLDLY

WALK FOR US

AMERICA CREATED DOUBLE D’S (DISTANCE AND DOLLARS) WITH THESE AAU AND  HIGH PRICES CLUBS THAT OUR BABIES ARE IN TO “PROVE” THEY WANT IT BAD ENOUGH. I SEE IT AS A WAY TO UPHOLD THOSE INVISIBLE WHITES ONLY SIGNS.

YES THEY WERE LEGALLY IN PLACE TO: DENY, OMIT, REJECT, EXCLUDE AND BE THE REASON WE ARE UNABLE TO COMPETED.

TAKE AWAY DISTANCE AND DOLLARS AND STOP DEFUNDING THOSE THINGS THAT OUR INNER CITY CHILDREN LOVE AND MASTER JUST NATURALLY  THEN THEY WILL INDEED DEFY AND DEBUNK ALL OF THOSE FALSE NARRATIVES AND DOMINATE ALL SPORTS.  WE SEE JUST HOW THEY PLUCKED BLACK LIVES FROM THE OLYMPICS DIDN’T WE?

 

40 Basic Rights Women Did Not Have Until The 1970s (historycollection.com)

 

I END WITH THANKING YOU,

 

YOU ARE THE REASON OUR LITTLE BLACK GIRLS CAN KNOW, UNDERSTAND, BELIEVE AND SEE THAT IT (ANYTHING) IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THEY SEE YOU.

 

YOU ARE NOT ONLY A DECORATED OLYMPIAN, GYMNAST, INTELLIGENTSIA, A TOP ATHLETE, THE GOAT, MULTISKILLED, GIFTED, TALENTED, STELLAR, SCHOLARLY BUT YOU SET THE BAR SO HIGH AND AMERICA MADE YOU LOWER IT FOR THOSE “less skilled.”

 

MY GIRLS AND I CRACKED THE HELL UP OVER THAT ONE BUT AS A BLACK WOMAN IN AMERICA, THEY HAVE ALWAYS NEEDED OUR MUSCLES, MINDS, CREATIVITY AND INGENUITY AND NEEDED US TO SPEAK NOTHING OF IT SO THEY CAN SHINE, BE ELEVATED AND PROFIT IMMENSELY OFF IT……..(HIDDEN FIGURES).

 

FOR OUR INNER CITY BLACK GIRLS AND THEIR MOMS, YOU ARE THE STANDARD, INFLUENCER, GOAT, LIFELINE AND YOU OWE AMERICA NOTHING BECAUSE YOUR RECORD SPEAKS FOR ITSELF AND IT IS ALL ETCHED IN STONE.

 

CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU ON YOUR TOUR, I HAD WHITE PEOPLE TO MAKE SURE OUR GIRLS COULD WITNESS YOU AND I AM EXCITED!!!!!

 

Even in the end Tenae was STILL loving, kind, considerate, selfelss and compassionate.

 

These words sum up this woman and are worthy attributes I foreve remember about her.

 

She would do this last humorous move on us but we aren’t laughing tho.

 

We know that God gives and takes life but this hit differently.

 

I felt the heaviness of Papoose post and immediately sent good vibes, light and love to surround she and her family.

 

I felt the heaviness of Ms. Laura, a woman who have lived her life caring for the residents of our city and didn’t get immediate word of the passing of HER CHILD.

 

I felt this loss.

 

We are in the midst of a deadly pandemic.

 

We are highlighting mental illness among Black women.

 

We are looking at covid rising.

 

Nae Nae left us during all of this but it wasn’t THAT she left us but HOW she left us.

 

She drove people to their desired destinations.

 

She considered people who were feeble, heavy burdened, carrying loads and not as swift.

 

She waited on people no matter how tired she was.

 

She listened to people no matter what they discussed.

 

She spoke into people lives no matter what heaviness she was carrying.

 

She always left words of encouragement, humor, impartation, inspiration and that lasting big beautiful smile that lit up the world and her raspy swift talking voice.

 

She was full of life, humor and very opinionated but not disrespectful or rude but SHE WAS OUR NAE NAE.

 

As I reflect on the woman she was, the impact she left and the deposts she left; I am wondering if we would just pick up her baton and all DO THE NAE NAE?

 

Live a life of carrying people to their desired destinations when they are not as swift.

 

Live a life of caring for those who are seemingly helpless, unloveable, unlikable, unbearablee and hopeless.

 

Live a life of being selfless becauswe we all have something to add and subtract to humanity.

 

Live a life of serving others becausee this is what we have gotten far away from, the village concept.

 

Live a life of speaking love into each other, that one word will cause a rippling effect, I PROMISE YOU IT WLL.

 

Live a life of sitting at the root of our seniors so that they may spill that wisdom, love and direcgtion over us.

 

Live a life of taking lemons and making lemonaid for others to enjoy and recycle.

 

Live a life just, DOING THE NAE NAE!

 

We BLACK WOMEN have JUSTIFIED AND NORMALIZED the maltreatment, malpractice, negligence and disrespect of not only our innate OIL but SUCCESSES, BRILLIANCE, MAGIC AND RESILIENCE.

 

I THINK SIMONE BILES IS LEADING BLACK WOMEN OUT OF THIS NOTION WE MUST TAKE THIS CRAP AND SUCK IT UP.

I guess on our birth certificate once they confirm our gender and hue in the watermark, we BLACK WOMEN have attached to us EVERYTHING WE ARE DEALT and we must handle these legislated ills, plagues, oppression, suppression, reject, denial and erroneous narratives privately and silently.

 

We BLACK WOMEN must manage as we STILL show up, give our best, over produce, supersede, shine for all other people first that transform into dominating this, that and the other while suppressing and dealing with it mentality while assuring the mental, emotional and physical safety of their success.

Listening to and watching Simone Biles expected to lose her spirit, soul and mind representing a country that rejected, neglected, disrespected her when she outed a pedophilia scandal is as AMERICA AND BLACK WOMEN MARRIAGE AS IT GETS.

A physician by the name of larry naasar who was reported time and time and time again for sexually assaulting, abusing, molesting and controlling these minors in his care and it was swept under the rug and he was ALLOWED to continue not his PRACTICE but SUCCEED in stripping them of their autonomy, dignity, respect and voice by violating their bodies, spirits and souls as they felt helpless and hopeless is as AMERICA AND BLACK WOMEN MARRIAGE AS IT GETS.

She is the epitome of what it is like being a BLACK WOMAN IN AMERICA.

We succeed

We produce

We champion

We created

We master

We own

We invent

We lead

We follow

We uphold

We are poly and multi simultaneously

AND THEN WE ARE REJECTED, NEGLECED, MISUSED, ABUSED, INVISIBLELIZED AND FRAMED ERRONEOUSLY.

 

SHUT UP AND HAVE A SEAT AS WE GET INTO FORMATION

 

Simone has lead BLACK WOMEN in being:

VOCAL

BRAVE

COURAGEOUS

VALUED

RESPECTED

OWNERS OF OUR SACRED SPACES AND PLACES

UNAPOLOGETIC

ALL WHILE PROVING WE ARE WHO WE ARE, WE HAVE WHAT IT TAKES AND WE NO LONGER ALLOW OTHERS TO VALIDATE, DICTATE, CONTROL OR SPEAK FOR US, ABOUT US BUT WITHOUT US.

 

 

lewis reed is halting, blocking, rejecting and  holding up progress.

I stand with Mayor Tishaura Jones.

Mayor Jones is attempting to lead and provide basic necessities that our inner city families need so that they can become ready and steady students as we know school is getting ready to start back in the Fall.

Mayor Jones has always been proactive and not reactive, that’s why St. Louis chose her as Mayor.

We know that we see, hear and feel what we do because of a simple stroke of a pen.

We all have been told time and time and time again what makes students successful:

STABILITY

HEALTHY NUTRITION

CONSISTANCY

SAFE HOMES, COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS

ATTITUDE

CHILD CENTERED

ACCESS

OPPORTUNITIES

INCLUSION

YES, THE REALIZATION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT IT IS ALL POLITICAL.

These malpractices and maltreatment of our people are all and have always been legislated and as BLACK moms of African American males, it is not a privilege but duty to assure their safety and wholeness, ALL OF OUR CHILDREN.

 

How can we BLACK WOMEN be the chosen one to birth, serve, cater, work, produce and sling magic but somehow can’t make intelligent, sound and progressive decision when that’s ALL we have done?

 

I feel like reed is hindering success of our future and making work hard for us educators who refuse to criminalize this very issue; what America and people like reed legislate. (oppression, hurt, harm, danger and death)

 

I STAND WITH TISHAURA JONES WHO IS LEADING PROGRESSIVELY IN SPITE OF THESE UNNECESSARY MALE INFERIORIITY AND WEAKNESS BY CREATING ROADBLOCKS AND REJECTION.

 

#RaiseTheDebate #BlackLivesMatter

Lets talk ATHLETICS….

Our children of color in our INNER CITY SCHOOLS attend schools with:

~No clinicians that address their ptsd, trauma, cides or issues America legislate
~Higher student teacher ratio
~No books or up to date technology with current events
~Are criminalized, ostracized for technology usage
~Major disrespect and treated as convicts
~Consistent inconsistencies
~Education interruption by mismanagement
~Teacher layoffs and departure
~Major subjects cut out of the curriculum
~Teachers hands tied because the HEAD ALLOW ALL OF THIS!!!

SO OUR CHILDREN ARE FORCED TO GO TO SCHOOL FOR WHAT REASON?

Why do teachers and parents tell our inner city students or BLACK students that there is something more than sports, arts, music or whatever they love when America pour everything into athletics but defund everything else?

This is a perfect moment for inner city BLACK parents to snatch mics and seize the moment about mental illness and mental fatigue of our talented,  gifted, driven and ripe inner city BLACK athletes.

When our inner city students step upon  ANY college campus academically ill equipped, unable to read and write on a college level; THEY NEED education experts who lead think tanks sessions, proficient researchers, master round table discussions and great debators….

When those AFFLUENT white parents who can write $500,000.00 checks to a prestigous university built on the backs, necks, shoulders, sweat and tears of the ancestors of those from these hoods followed up with a wink we get that that’s been going on for so long.

When attendance and athletics is heavily weighted over academics but yet academics is not for a 2021 generation, who are we fooling?

When our BLACK students in every inner city show up day in and day out and all is served is consistant inconsistancy

THEY HAVE DID THEIR PART.

THE PARENTS, COMMUNITY, LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD, STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION has willfully, knowingly, intentionally and legislatively FAILED them.

#RiseUp young folks.

Yes, come and do interview INNER CJTY BLACK parents and our mental distress , fatigue, illness over not being able to position our talented and gifted athletic children in the direction they naturally want to go because of distance and dollars.

These high price athletic club fees, travel feels, leisure fees, uniform fees and replacement fees are in place to exclude, omit, deny and reject the most gifted and talented of them all INNER CITY ATHLETES and for those of us who “give up everything” so our babies can participate and compete is dying daily and slowly as America profit immensely off of us poor by using, misusing and abusing our muscles and minds.

 

America have managed to strip the fun, love, joy, comfort, beauty and life lessons out of sports and being athletes, it’s a business now and well our young people and their parents and inner city coaches need to be compensated although it is a business.

 

We are tired of you using our BLACK children for your gain in athletics. #CutTheCheck
#Reparations
#WhyNotNow

 

#Reparations #WhyNotNow for legislating curriculum discrimination while finding MAD money for our MUSCLES (athletics) but defunding for our MINDS (academics).

I AM INDEED OPEN TO SPEAK ABOUT IT.

 

In listening

In reflecting

In meditating

In understanding

I saw, heard, felt and understood America to be the same ole same ole.

African Americans do not do malicious, vicious and inhumane acts.

White America have always targeted the destruction, annihilation, destruction, genocie of BLACK LIVES because of effortless on our behalf competition.

She was exploited and coveted simultaneously.

She had brains and beauty simultaneously.

She was saved and sincere about serving her country simultaneously.

She wasn’t seen as a young lady who should be respected, protected, not neglected or pushed down and out but in her family’s eyes she was ALL OF THOSE THINGS AND MORE.

As African Americans, we contribute greatness, we uphold White Americam, we laboriously bring ripeness in all that we touch.

As African Americans, we are all inclusive and have a team spirit.

As African Americans, WE ARE WHAT THIS COUNTRY HAS ALWAYS NEEDED AS WE BUILT IT UP FOR FREE.

We will indeed keep your story alive and in the media’s light.

 

JOSH HAWLEY CREATED A BILL TITLED, “LOVE AMERICA ACT” WHEN OBVIOUSLY HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WHO HONESTLY LOVES AMERICA MORE THAN ANYTHING.

 

LET’S LOOK AT THESE OUTDATED, ANTIQUATED, MUNDANE, FAILED AS FUCK SCHOOL IN OUR INNER CITIES.

 

LET’S LOOK AT THE BLACK MEN AND WOMEN WHO HONORABLY SUIT UP IN UNIFORMS, FIGHT IN WARS, COME BACK HOME AND ARE STILL TREATED LIKE THEY NEED TO GET IN THE BACK OF THE BUS, FAMILIES DRINKING BROWN WATER, LIVING IN COMMUNITIES WHERE DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS ARE ALL AROUND THEM AND SIRENS ARE LIKE ANY AND ALL MUSIC GENERES.

 

LET’S LOOK AT CURRICULLUM DISCRIMINATION WHERE WE WILLINGLY DROP OFF OUR INNER CITY CHILDREN TO THESE SCHOOLS THAT AREN’T EQUIPPING THEM TO OWN THEIR OWN, INVEST IN THEIR OWN AND SEE THEMSELVES AS THE BEAUTIUFL AND BRILLIANT YOUNG MINDS WE KNOW THEM TO BE.

 

LET’S LOOK AT THE LAWS, RULES, CODES, MANDATES, POLICIES AND STANDARDS TO ARE ETCHED IN STONE TO DENY, OMIT, REJECT, EXCLUDE AND FORBID US TO COMPETE AND ENJOY.

 

LETS LOOK AT DECADES OF FALSE NARRATIVES THE MEDIA PUSH ABOUT BLACK FOLKS TO CAUSE FEAR, HATE, HARM AND DANGER TO INNOCENT LIVES.

 

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITY NOT AFFORDED TO US BUT AS FAITHFUL TITHERS AND OFFERING GIVERS; WE STILL DON’T QUALIFY FOR ADVANCEMENT, ELEVATION AND OPULENCE WITH OUR OWN MONEY.

 

LET’S LOOK AT TAX PAYERS, WE ARE HARSHLY AND BRUTALLY CRIMINALIZED AND TREATED AS THE WORKING POOR OVER LINGO WE AREN’T TAUGHT, WE DON’T KNOW BUT MUST ADHERE TO UNBEKNOWNST TO US AND OURS.

 

LETS LOOK AT CONTROLLED LANGUAGE THAT’S WITHHELD FROM US BUT THOSE WHO PENNED IT, PRINTED IT, SHIPPED IT AND DISBURSED IT TO EVERY AREA BUT OURS ARE THE ONES HOLDING US TO IT.

 

LETS LOOK AT THE LEGALIZATION OF MALTREATMENT AND MALPRACTICE AND BENIGN NEGLECT IS IN PLACE FOR IT TO NOT BEE SEEN, DISMANTLED OR ERADICATED.

 

LETS LOOK AT HOW THESE SYSTEMS INTERCONNECT AND PREY UPON OUR CHILDREN AND LOVED ONES UNJUSTLY, IMMORALLY AND INHUMANELY AND SINCE IT IS ATTACHED TO MONEY, THEY ARE WEBBED INTO THIS CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM WITHOUT BEING CRIMINALS.

 

LETS LOOK AT THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE THATS IN PLACE TO CRIMINALIZE THE VERY POVERTY, OPPRESSION AND EARLY DEMISE AMERICA LEGISLATE AND IT IS WITH THE DEFUNDING OF OUR NEEDED BLACK EDUCATORS AND CLINICIANS WHO HEAL AND MAKE EMOTIONALLY, PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY WHOLE OUR BLACK BABIES.

 

LETS LOOK AT THESE SORRY AS CURRICULUMS WHERE OUR CHILLDREN DON’T SEE THEIR IMAGE, DON’T KNOW THEIR HISTORY AND WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND ALL THAT IS WITHIN THEM.

 

LETS LOOK AT HOW THE VERY THINGS THAT GOT YOU AND YOURS WHERE YOU ARE SUCH AS EDUCATION, ENTERTAINMENT, ECONOMICS, LAW, LABOR, POLITIC, RELIGION, SEX AND WAR ARE ALL WHAT THEY ARE BECAUSE OF THE WORK YOU DEMANDED FROM US, THE LABORIOUS JOURNEY TO LIVING LIFE FREELY AND OBTAINING JUSTICE FOR US

 

LETS LOOK AT THE MANY WAYS AMERICA CREATED UNWARRANTED AND UNNECESSARY OBSTACLES, TRIALS, TESTS AND TACTICS TO DENY US, OBJECT TO US, REFUSE US, EXCLUDE US WHILE NEEDING US, COVETING US, DEPENDING ON US AND USING US.

 

LETS LOOK AT THE MANY LOVE LANGUAGES OF BLACK FOLKS WHEN IT COMES TO YOU AND YOUR KIND, IF NO ONE LOVED THIS COUNTRY WE DO AND OUR CHILDREN SHOULD KNOW THAT WE DO.

 

HOW DARE YOU INSULT, HUMILIATE AND FALSELY PAINT US AS HATING A COUNTRY WE BUILT FOR FREE AND STILL IS UPHOLDING UPON OUR BACKS, NECKS AND SHOULDERS AS SAYING WE SHOULD LOVE THIS COUNTRY.

 

AS PARENTS OF INNET CITY BABIES, I CAN’T STRESS ENOUGH HOW WE AND ONLY WE ARE THE EXPERTS OF OUR CHILD/CHILDREN.

 

WE KNOW HOW THEY LEARN BEST

WE KNOW IF THEY ARE ACTIVE

WE KNOW IF THEY NEED LIGHT

WE KNOW IF THEY LOVE NOISE

WE KNOW IF THEY APPRECIATE SILENCE

WE KNOW IF THEY LOVE TO COUNT EVERY DARN PEA

WE KNOW IF THEY HAVE TIME TO SEPARATE THEIR FOOD TO LOOK NEAT

WE KNOW IF THEY LOVE TO SMEAR THEIR FOOD

 

WE KNOW THESE THINGS BECAUSE WE RAISED THESE GENIUSES

 

WE OBSERVED THEM ATTENTIVELY AND LOVINGLY (BELIEVE IT OR NOT)

 

WE PRAISED AND SCOLDED THEM

 

WE JUST DIDN’T KNOW THEY WERE SETTING UP WHO THEY WOULD LATER BECOME AT THAT EARLY AGE.

 

PARENTING HAS NO MANUAL

 

PARENTING HAVE NO BLUEPRINT

 

PARENTING HAVE NO STANDARDS

 

BUT IT SEEMS THAT THOSE WHO HAVE NOT A ONE AND HAVE LOTS OF MONEY ARE THE ONES WHO:

 

WRITE LAWS

 

WIELD THEIR INCOME LEVEL

 

CREATE POLICIES, RULES, LAWS, MANDATES AND CODES

 

MAKE RULES WE CAN’T REACH

 

NEVER SECOND GUESS OR QUESTION OUR:

DUTIES

LOVE

SUPPORT

CARE FOR OUR CHILD/CHILDREN BECAUSE IT IS STUPID TO HAVE TO SAY HUT WE DO, IT JUST MAY NOT COME OUT LIKE OTHERS, BUT OTHERS AREN’T GIVEN OUR LOT IN LIFE NOR HAVE THEY TRAVELED OUR JOURNEY.

 

PARENTS, WE ARE NOT ONLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THE EDUCATION GAME BUT WE ARE OUR SCHOOLS BIGGEST ALLY.

 

WE CAN REALLY GET THINGS DONE AND QUICKLY

 

WE CAN REALLY TRANSFORM SCHOOLS

 

WE REALLY CAN ADVANCE OUR CHILDREN LEARNING

WE CAN, AND SHOULD BE OUR CHILDREN’S BIGGEST ADVOCATES

OUR CHILDREN ARE TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS IN THE SCHOOLS NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE BUT BECAUSE:

 

YOU ARE MIA

 

YOU ARE NOT AROUND THE TABLE

 

YOUR VOICES ARE ON MUTE

 

EVEN IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE THEY ARE USING EDUCATION JARGON OF WHICH SHOWS THEIR EDUCATIONAL LEVEL, TELL THEM TO TUNE IT DOWN TO HOOD………

 

LET’S MAKE IT MAKE SENSE, JOSH HAWLEY CAN FIGHT AGAINST THE TRUTH OF THESE SYSTEMS THAT PREY UPON, INTERCINNECT, HARSHLY JUDGE AND CRIMINALIZE INNOCENT BLACK PEOPLE THAT IS LEGISLATED EXCLUSION AND OMISSION OF WHICH IS OUR TRUTH?

 

NO CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN OUR SCHOOLS OF WHICH (AS THEY SAY) TEACH OUR KIDS TO HATE THIS COUNTRY, NOT BE PROUD OF THEIR HISTORY OR RACE …..

 

BUT NOT EDUCATION MALPRACTICE

 

BUT NOT THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY

 

BUT NOT THESE 1800’s LAWS, RULES, CODES, MANDATES,  PROCEDURES AND POLICIES

 

BUT NOT HUNGER

 

BUT NOT UNDEREMPLOYMENT

 

BUT NOT OUR DIGNITY

 

BUT NOT POLICE BRUTALITY

 

BUT NOT INEQUITY

 

BUT NOT INEQUALITY

 

BUT NOT THE FACT WE ARE TRIED OF HOLDING THIS THANKLESS AND UNGRATEFUL COUNTRY UPON OUR SHOULDERS, NECKS AND BACKS

 

BUT NOT THAT WE ARE
LEADING IN STUDENT LOAN DEBT THAT ASSURE OUR CREDIT IS LOW TO KEEP US SLAVES

 

BUT NOT THAT THESE TOXIC PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE A CHECK OFF OF OUR CHILDREN IN THESE OUTDATED FAILED SCHOOLS AND NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE OR PRODUCE THE SCHOLARS WE KNOW THEY ARE

NOT THESE THINGS THO…..

JOSH HAWLEY, YOU SIR NEED TO HAVE A DAMN SEAT, PLEASE AND THANK YOU AND YES OUR CHILDREN WILL BE TAUGHT THE TRUTH, PERIOD!

As an educator, I THANK YOU for attempting to feed my babies

 

As an educator I THANK YOU for attempting to shelter my babies.

 

As an educator I THANK YOU for attempting to provide dignity to our babies.

 

As an educator I THANK YOU for attempting to protect our babies.

 

As an educator I THANK YOU for attempting to assure our babies safety.

 

As an educator I THANK YOU for attempting to see our babies.

 

As  educator I THANK YOU for being willing, intentional, spiritual and progressive concerning our babies.

 

As an educator I THANK YOU for attempting to deposit within our babies.

 

As an educator I THANK YOU for your UNAPOLOGETIC maternal instincts.

 

As an educator, I have sat back and saw how all of these systems interconnect and are in place legislatively by the wield of VIOLENT men and women to web our inner city babies into this criminal justice system and I grieve.

 

As an educator I SEE YOU attempting to make a difference, bring wholeness, heal the souls, spirits, minds and lives of our inner city babies and patch wounds within the community and I also see others (lewis reed) who say it is not worth it and do everything in his power to BLOCK IT, REJECT YOU, DENY ACCESS, OMIT GIFTED AND TALENTED AND JUST SAY NO to residents who actually own him.

 

Lewis Reed is one sad ass individual to intentionally, willfuly and knowingly  hurt, harm, abuse, misuse and be VIOLENT towards children, OUR children and their families and community without any remorse, shame or guilt.

 

The affluent have OPTIONS.

 

Yet we financially challenged, who is zoned into impoverished communities and legislated education malpractice and curriculum discrimination of which perpetuates ignorance, deficits,  detachments, disengagement, curriculumly (not a word I know) deprived have mandates or are forced to do things we know are unethical, immoral, dehumanizing and unjust although we are NOT natural born citizens with the SAME rights under the CONstitution.

 

I end with RELEVANT quotes by Coretta Scott King and Nelson Mandela THAT ARE JUST AS TRUE TODAY AS THEY WERE WHEN THEY SPOKE THEM SOME YEARS AGO…….

 

“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”

 

“If American women would increase their voting turnout by 10 percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefitting WOMEN and children.”

 

“I must remind you that starving a child is VIOLENCE.  Suppressing a culture is VIOLENCE.  Neglecting school children is VIOLENCE.  Punishing a mother and her family is VIOLENCE. Discriminating against a working man is VIOLENCE.  Ghetto housing is VIOLENCE.  Ignoring medical need is VIOLENCE.  CONtempt for poverty is VIOLENCE.”

 

“The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.”

 

“Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations.”

 

“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate action of its members.”

 

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the action of human beings.” “Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.” Nelson Mandela

 

I THANK YOU as a woman

 

I THANK YOU as a mother

 

I THANK YOU as woman of great  leadership

 

I THANK YOU as a woman of dignity

 

I THANK YOU for your dutifulness

 

I THANK YOU for choosing to be a PUBLIC SERVANT and not a empty politician

 

I THANK YOU for your optimism

 

I THANK YOU for your

 

I THANK YOU for fostering progress and growth

 

I THANK YOU for your vision

 

I THANK YOU for choosing to invest in the social emotional depletion of our children

 

Mainly, I THANK YOU AS AN EDUCATOR and SHOWING WHO IS AUTHENTICALLY MAKING OUR PROFESSON DIFFICULT!