"YOU PEOPLE"

Got my OWN mic, stage, key, seat & door!

BLACK TEACHERS ARE COVETED

 

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER TAUGHT FOR MONEY

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT TO PRESERVE OUR CULTURE

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT FOR THE LOVE OF THE PROFESSION

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT TO MAKE AN IMPACT

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT FOR THE CULTURE

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT US HOW TO USE OUR VOICE

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT US TO HOLD ACADEMICS HIGH

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT BECAUSE THAT WAS THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT EVER

BLACK TEACHERS ASSURED US THAT WE WERE HIGH ACHIEVERS IN ALL

BLACK TEACHERS STRESSED STUDENTS OVER ATHLETES

BLACK TEACHERS DEVELOPED STRONG LEADERS

BLACK TEACHERS WERE COMMUNAL

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT TO RESIST THE SYSTEM

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT TO BRING OUT HIGH ESTEEM

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT STUDENTS THAT IT DIDNT MATTER WHERE THEY WERE FROM BUT WHAT WAS WITHIN THEM

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT TO PRESERVE OUR FUTURE

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT INTENTIONALLY

BLACK TEACHERS WANT TO BE THERE

BLACK TEACHERS WERE ALWAYS PREPARED AND ORGANIZED

BLACK TEACHERS WERE PROFICIENT IN THEIR SUBJECT MATTER

BLACK TEACHERS NEVER MADE EXCUSES ABOUT HOME OR CAREGIVERS

BLACK TEACHERS CAME EARLY AND STAYED LATE

BLACK TEACHERS ARE USED TO JUGGLING LIFE AND LIVING

BLACK TEACHERS USED THE VILLAGE

BLACK TEACHERS WERE IN THIER LANE

BLACK TEACHERS SAW GOODNESS

BLACK TEACHERS MASTER TAKING NOTHING AND LITTLE AND CREATING MUCH

BLACK TEACHERS BROUGHT AND SPOKE LIFE

BLACK TEACHER BROUGHT HUES

BLACK TEACHERS BROUGHT DIFFERENT EMOTIONS

BLACK TEACHERS BROUGHT HUMANITY

BLACK TEACHERS WERE ALWAYS ENGAGING

BLACK TEACHERS USED UP EVERY SECOND OF CLASS TIME

BLACK TEACHERS MADE SURE YOU KNEW

BLACK TEACHERS UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE OF RELATIONSHIP AND RELATING TO STUDENTS

BLACK TEACHERS CARED

BLACK TEACHERS EMPATHIZED

BLACK TEACHERS SYMPATHIZED

BLACK TEACHERS DEMANDED EXCELLENCE AND EXCELLENCE IS WHAT THE GOT

BLACK TEACHERS COMMUNICATED AUDIBLY AND INAUDIBLY

BLACK TEACHERS UNDERSTOOD THAT IF THEIR STUDENTS FAILED, THEY FAILED AND THEY WASN’T HAVING ANY OF THAT

BLACK TEACHERS HAD FAITH AND BELIEVED IN US

BLACK TEACHERS ARE BLACK PARENTS WITH DIFFERENT EMOTIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS

BLACK TEACHERS DID WHATEVER IT TOOK TO ASSURE DIGNITY, HUMANITY AND COMMUNITY

BLACK TEACHERS ASSURE THE SUCCESS OF THEIR STUDENTS

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT BECAUSE IT WAS THEIR CALLING

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEIR PURPOSE

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT TO EMPOWER

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT CONFIDENCE

BLACK TEACHERS TEACH CONSIDERATION

BLACK TEACHERS TEACH SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL WELLNESS IN HER CLASS

BLACK TEACHERS TEACH CARINGLY

BLACK TEACHERS TEACH WARMTH

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT TO ENGAGE

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT TO INSPIRE

BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT TO ASSURE THEIR STUDENTS THAT ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR THEM, TO THEM AND WITHIN THEM.

 

IT WAS ONLY WHEN WE START THINKING LIKE, ACTING LIKE, AND BEING LIKE THE ENEMY, WE SEE WHAT WE ARE SEEING TODAY.

 

MALCOLM X SAID, ONLY A FOOL WOULD ALLOW THE ENEMY TO EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN.

 

THE CLOSER WE GOT TO WHITENESS THE MORE WE ERODED, WASTED AWAY, DETERIORATED, DISMANTLED, CUT, RESISTED, REJECTED AND DISLIKED OUR OWN.

 

CAN WE GET IT BACK? OF COURSE AS LONG AS IT IS INETIONAL.

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HAPPY KWANZAA DAY 3, UJIMA

WE HAVE MOVED TO A ME, MY, I AND SELF ABSORBED SOCIETY.

TO WORK TOGETHER, IS SEEN AS AND SAID TO BE TOXIC.

TO EXPECT COLLABORATION IS SAID TO BE CONTROLLING.

TO DEMAND THAT OUR CHILDREN DO FOR OTHERS IS SAID TO BE ABUSIVE.

THE THINGS THAT BUILT US…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US…….

THE THINGS THAT STRENGTHENED US…….

THE THINGS THAT UNIFIED US…….

THE THINGS THAT ENCOURAGED US…….

THE THINGS THAT EMPOWERED US…….

THE THINGS THAT AFFIMRED US…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US SKILLFUL…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US GIFTED…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US TALENTED…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US INNOVATIVE…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US INGENIOUS…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US CREATIVE…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US INFLUENCERS…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US BOLD…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US LEADERS…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US EAGER…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE THE WORLD TREMBLE BECAUSE WE SHOWED UP…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US HOUSEHOLD NAMES BECUASE OF OUR EXCELLENCE…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US CONFIDENT…….

THE THINGS THAT MADE US WHO WE ONCE WERE HAVE BEEN STRIPPED, ROBBED, DEMOTED AND TAKEN BY THEN ENEMY WHO UNDERSTOOD OUR POWER WHEN WE WERE, WHEN WE DID AND WHEN WE SHOWED UP…….

WE HAD COMMUNITY!!!!!!!

WE HAD COMMUNICATION!!!!!!!

WE HAD COMMEMORATION!!!!!!!

WE HAD STRONG AUDIBLE VIEWS!!!!!!!

WE HAD CLARITY!!!!!!!

WE HAD PEOPLE COVETING US, STILL IS BUT FOR MANY OTHER REASONS THAT’S UNLIKE US!!!!!!!

WE WERE NEEDED, EXPECTED AND DESIRED TO GIVE, SHOW UP, AND PRODUCE LIKE TODAY BUT FOR US!!!!!!!

WE RESPECTED THE WISDOM OF OUR ELDERS BECAUSE AFTER ALL, WE WERE THEIR SEED AND THEY WERE TEACHING US HOW TO MANUVER THROUGH THIS COUNTRY SUCCESSFULLY AND INTO ADULTHOOD WITH A STRONG MIND!!!!!!!

WE WERE EDIFIED BY OUR ELDERS!!!!!!!

WE WERE ENCOURAGED, INSPIRING AND ENERGIZED TO BE ALL THAT WE COULD AND SHOULD BE TO CARRY ON OUR FUTURE!!!!!!!

WE WERE TAUGHT OUR HISTORY AND IN IT WAS MUCH PRIDE TO BE GAIN, RESPECT TO BE GIVEN, ABILITY WITHIN OUR DNA TO BE UNDERSTOOD AND LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES TO BE ENVISIONED BECAUSE LACK WASN’T THE REASON WHY WE COULDN’T BUT THE REASON BECAUSE OF LACK, LEGISLATED NO HAVE ALWAYS BEEN OUR REASONS TO DO, BE, OUTPERFORM AND MASTER!!!!!!!

YET, AMERICA CAME UP WITH THIS, NATIONAL SECURITY MEMORANDUM 46

https://www.finalcall.com/MEMORANDUM-46.htm

 

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THAT GOTCHU HERE!

From Embarrassment to elevation

From shamed to shining

From humiliation to honor

From insult to influence

From guilt to glory

From resentment to resourcefulness

From Discresited to Desired

From being harshly judged to the JUDGE

From barren to birthing all over the world

EVERY BLACK WOMAN entered rings for LIFE, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

 

EVERY BLACK WOMAN understood what came with LIBERATING our seed.

EVERY BLACK WOMAN was warned about the possibilityof the good, bad and the ugly.

, discouraged, rejected, overlooked, given reasons and STILL managed to carry America upon her tits, backs, necks and shoulders effortlessly and progressively

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HAPPY KWANZAA DAY 2, KUJICHAGULIA

 

THIS IS THE DAY WE FOCUS ON SELF DETERMINATION AS A PEOPLE. THIS IS WHEN WE HAD THE SAME VISION.

 

THIS IS WHEN WE BELIEVED AND RESPECTED THE WISDOM OF OUR ELDERS.

 

THIS IS WHEN WE WERE ON THE SAME PAGE. THIS IS WHEN WE WALKED IN THE MOST SYNCHRONIZED MANNER POSSIBLE THAT PRODUCED EXCELLENCE, RESILIENCE, CONFIDENCE, BRILLIANCE AND WHAT WE USED TO BE.

 

WE NO LONGER DEFINE US, WE NO LONGER HAVE THE SAME INTERESTESS. WE NO LONGER SEE OUR FUTURE AS ONE TO CARRY ON US AS A PEOPLE.

 

WE ARE ALLOWING, WATCHING OUR PEOPLE ERODE. DETERIORATE, ONE STUDENT AND BLACK CHILD AT A TIME AND WE ARE LEADING IN THE DEPOPULATION OF OUR PEOPLE WITH THIS MALTREATMENT AND MALNOURISHMENT OF OUR FUTURE, OUR CHILDREN ALONG WITH LEGISLATED DEATH (BEIT NATURALLY, PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY, SPIRITUALLY, PSYCHOLOGICALLY OR INTELLECTUALLY). WE ALLOWED THE ENEMY COME IN AND STEAL OUR FUTUREA AS WEL AS STILL OUR FUTURE.

 

TODAY THEY HAVE US SAYING WORDS SUCH AS TOXIC,  NEGLIGENCE, ABUSE, CULTURE CHANGE, DECONDITIONINGIN, RECONDITIONING, CONDITIONING, ASSIMILIATION, INTEGRATION AND TOTAL AND ANNIHILATION OF OUR CULTURE, THE WAYS OF OUR ANCESTORS, HOW WE GOT HERE, WHY THEY DID WHAT THEY DID AND SAID AND WHO THEY WERE……..

 

WITH THESE SAME OPPRESSIVE, RACIST, DIVISIVE, IMMORAL AND DEHUMANIZING MURDEROUS LAWS, RULES, CODES, POLICIES, MANDATES, LEGISLATIONS AND TERROR OF THE COUNTRY REMAIN IN PLACE.

 

UNTIL WE NO LONGER HAVE TO VOTE FOR OUR BLACK: FULL CITIZENRY, JUSTICE, EQUALITY, HUMANITY, DIGNITY AND MORALITY; ALL OF THAT IS A MENTAL SET UP OF NOT ONLY WEAKNESS BUT QUICK DEATH FOR THINKING WE HAVE THE SAME RIGHT, LIBERTY, JUSTICE AND PURSUITS AS OUR ENEMY.

 

UNTIL WE UNDERSTAND, EMBRACE AND OWN OUR POWERFUL ANCESTORS AND THEIR WAYS, WE WILL DIE QUICKLY AS WE ALREADY ARE.

 

WE REALLY CAN GET A BLACKWALLSTREET 2 OVER NIGHT IF WE WANTED, BUT WE HAVE TO WANT IT, SEE IT AND MAKE IT HAPPEN BECAUSE WE ARE THE ONLY ONES WE ARE WAITING ON, WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER ALLOWED ANYONE TO DEFINE OUR CULTURE, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY TO ONLY BENEFIT FINANCIALLY FROM OUR DETACHMENT.

 

THE ENEMY KNOW BETTER THAN WE DO THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR DIVISION AND THE THREAT WE ARE UNIFIED.

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GREAT CULMINATION

 

Yesterday, I decided to hang with a lady I adore and go to spread love and cheer to BLACK families in SSM Cardinal Glennon and St. Mary’s Waiting Rooms.

I then “played” Santa to some people who were home and culminated at the cemetery.

In my grief, heaviness and pain; I was immediately zapped out of my depression and grief.

I saw a young lady overcome by her grief as she was heading towards a baby’s graveside that I am guessing she buried.

I began to reflect on the life my husband and I made, the family we created and built and the love we gave to the world together.

This morning, bright eyed and bushy tailed as she sat in the bed; our oldest woke up HYPED and asked, “Mom, did you know that dad spent all of his firsts with us?” I said, yep.

HIS FIRSTS WERE OUR LAST.

2020 and 21 not only brought us closer but it literally culminated the man he was.

He worked tirelessly, daily and intentionally with his family first and we were the last people he spoke to and saw.

He ended his life the same way and I call it the GREAT culmination of HIS FIRSTS AND OUR LAST.

He spent each and every holiday with the children during 2020 and 2021.

I decided to sit back because I want no parts of feeding the pig, funding white supremacy on the holidays they created for us to spend money with our loved ones in mind.

NO NOT I but I supported them and when they wanted to HONOR, RESPECT AND PAY TRIBUTE to their dad, I made sure he got up out of the bed and joined them.

Well, it was extremely rare he was with them on ANY holiday.

He slept majority of the day and made a guest appearance with family just before he was going to go to work.

2020 and 2021 was a HARD YEAR for them, they lost their world which was their Granny in 2020; the kick off of this PANDEMIC and 2021 was their dad.

HE DID IT ALL IN 1 YEAR WITH THEM.

HE SHARED WITH THEM.

HE SHOWED UP AT GAMES.

HE SHOWED THEM WHAT TO EXPECT AND BE IN ONE YEAR.

HE GAVE THEM THE GREAT CULMINATION OF WHO HE WAS AS A MAN, HEAD, LEADER AND FRIEND.

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HAPPY KWANZAA DAY 1, UMOJA

 

UMOJA UNITY IS THE FIRST DAY OF KWANZA.

 

I HAVE WRITTEN THOUGHTFULLY, SINCERELY AND INTUITIVELY ON KWANZA/KWANZAA  OVER THE YEARS AND IT NEVER HIT ME THAT THE “KWANZA/KWANZAA” CELEBRATIONS WERE IN PREDOMINANTLY WHITE AREAS OR WERE HOSTED BY AFFLUENT BLACKS WHO HOPPED ON THE HIGHWAYS AFTER THE CLEAN UP WAS DONE OR WERE WELL OFF.

 

THERE IS NO UNITY  WHEN IT COMES TO US, WHITE FOLKS UNDERSTAND THAT IS A MAJOR THREAT BECAUSE WE DON’T NOR HAVE WE EVER NEEDED THEM AND THEY WOULD NOT LAST WITHOUT US, HONESTLY EVERYONE RELY ON OUR MUSCLES, MINDS AND MONEY.

 

I HAVE A COUPLE OF MIGHTY QUOTES FROM OUR ELDERS WHEN IT COMES TO UNITY, EDUCATING OUR YOUNG AND THEIR POWERFUL WORDS CAN EXPLAIN WHY WE ARE “AT TABLES” “IN BOARD ROOMS” IN SPACES WHERE EXECUTIVE DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE ON OUR BEHALF BUT WE NEVER REAP……..

 

WHITE PEOPLE CAN’T EVEN THINK TO SHARE WEALTH, SUCCESS, OPPORTUNTIES AND INCLUSION WITH US BECAUSE THEY ARE WELL AWARE THAT THEY WILL BE OUTSHOWN, OUTSHINED AND OUTDONE; AND THEY WILL!

 

BOBBY SEALE, “YOU DON’T FIGHT RACISM WITH RACISM, FIGHT RACISM WITH SOLIDARITY.”

 

ANONYMOUS, “THE FUTURE OF BLACK PEOPLE IS NOT DEPENDENT UPON HOW WHITE PEOPLE TREAT US, THE FUTURE OF BLACK PEOPLE IS DEPENDENT UPON HOW WE TREAT OURSELVES.

 

HUEY NEWTON, “BLACK POWER IS GIVING POWER TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT HAD POWER TO DETERMINE THEIR DESTINY.”

 

JAMES BROWN, “DON’T TERRORIZE. ORGANIZE. DON’T BURN. GIVE KIDS A CHANCE TO LEARN……. THE REAL ANSWERS TO RACE PROBLMEMS IN THIS COUNTRY IS EDUCATION. NOT BURNING AND KILLING. BE READY. BE QUALIFIED. OWN SOMETHING. BE SOMEBODY. THAT’S BLACK POWER.

 

DR. FRANCES CRESS WELSING, “CHILDREN ARE THE ONLY FUTURE OF ANY PEOPLE.  IF THE CHILDREN’S LIVES ARE SQUANDERED, AND IF THE CHILDREN ARE NOT FULLY DEVELOPED AT WHATEVER COST AND SACRIFICE, THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE COSIGNED THEMSELVES TO CERTAIN DEATH.”

 

DR. FRANCES CRESS WELSING, “WE’RE THE ONLY PEOPLE ON THIS ENTIRE PLANTED WHO HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO SING AND PRAISE OUR DEMEANMENT.  ‘I’M A BITCH. I’M A HOE. I’M A GANSTER. I’M A THUG. I’M A DOG. ‘IF YOU CAN TRAIN PEOPLE TO DEMEAN AND DEGRADE THEMSELVES, YOU CAN OPPRESS THEM FOREVER. YOU CAN EVEN PROGAM THEM TO KILL THEMSELVES AND THEY WON’T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED.”

 

DR. CARTER G. WOODSON, “THOSE WHO HAVE NO RECORD OF WHAT THEIR FORGEARS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED LOSE THE INSPIRATION WHICH COMES FROM THE TEACHING OF BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.”

AFRICAN PROVERB, “IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHID.”
AFRICAN PROVERB, “THE CHILD WHO IS NOT EMBRACED BY THE VILLAGE WILL BURN IT DOWN TO FEEL THE WARMTH.”
WHEN BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT BLACK STUDENTS, WE LEARNED OUR HISTORY, OUR CULTURE, OUR WALK, OUR TALK, OUR WAY OF MANUVERING THROUGH THIS GOOD OLD AMERICA, WE WERE INVENTORS, WE WERE CREATIVE, WE WERE INGENIOUS, WE WERE INDEED UNIFIED.
WHEN BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT BLACK STUDENTS, WE WERE AWARE OF OUR VILLAGE, WE HONORED OUR ELDERS, WE HAD A HIGH SELF ESTEEM THAT WAS INEXPLAINABLE, WE HAD A CONFIDENCE THAT WAS THROUGH THE ROOF, WE UNDERSTOOD AND HONORED OUR ANCESTORS STRUGGLES AND WAS AWARE OF WHAT WAS IN US BECAUSE WE WERE ATTACHED TO THEM.
WHEN BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT BLACK STUDENTS, WE UNDERSTOOD THAT WE COULDN’T WALK LIKE ANYTHING, TALK LIKE ANYTHING, LOOK LIKE ANYTHING AND PRESENT OURSELVES LIKE ANYTHING BECAUSE WELL WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD TO TALK DIFFERENTLY, LOOK DIFFERENTLY, ACT DIFFERENTLY AND JUST BE DIFFERENTLY.
WHEN BLACK TEACHERS TAUGHT BLACK STUDENTS, WE WERE MOTIVATED TO REACH, TEACH, ELEVATE AND EMPOWER EACH OTHER. WE DIDN’T WANT OUR PEERS TO SEE US FAIL AND WE DIDN’T ALLOW OUR PEERS TO FAIL.
WE WERE ONE.
WE WERE UNIFIED.
WHEN I FAILED……..MY PEERS FAILED
WHEN WE FAILED…….OUR BLACK TEACHERS FAILED
THEY KNEW FROM WHENCE THEY CAME TO ASSURE OUR SUCCESS, INCLUSION, ACCESS, ELEVATION AND OPPORTUNITIES AND FAILURE WASN’T AN OPTION ON THEM OR US.
PART OF ME WANT TO SAY THIS IS BAD BECAUSE IT IS LIKE WE ARE STRIPPED OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AS CITIZENS BUT LOOKING AT WHERE WE ARE IN THIS COUNTRY TODAY, THAT CONSTITUTION WAS ONLY TO DEHUMANIZE, OPPRESS, REJECT, EXCLUDE AND OMIT BLACKS AND KEEP US IN THIS SUBSERVIENT POSITION AND THE WORKING POOR TO KEEP ELEVATING WHITE INFERIORITY.
I CLOSE WITH THE WORDS OF MALCOLM X, “ONLY F FOOL WILL ALLOW THE ENEMY TO EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN.”
NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR:
YOUR BLACK UNITY
YOUR BLACK DIGNITY
YOUR BLACK THOUGHTS
YOUR BLACK BRILIANCE
YOUR BLACK GIFTS
YOUR BLACK TALENTS
YOUR BLACK RESILIENCE
YOUR BLACK CREATIVITY
YOUR BLACK SPENIDNG POWER WITH YOUR OWN KIND
YOUR BLACK LOYALTIES
YOUR BLACK MOTIVES
YOUR BLACK HISTORY
YOUR BLACK PRIDE
YOUR BLACK SKIN
YOUR BLACK HAIR
YOUR BLACK BEAUTIFUL DISTINCTIVE FEATURES
YOUR BLACK LIFE
I AM HAPPY TO SEE THE MASS EXODUS OF THESE INEPT, INEFFECTIVE, INCOMPETENT AND INSINCERE WHITE TEACHERS IN OUR CLASSROOMS.
BLACK TEACHERS ARE USED TO OVERCROWDED CLASSES
BLACK TEACHERS ARE USED TO BEING DISSED: YES, AMERICA HAS ALWAYS DISREGARDED, DISRESPECTED, DISENGAGED AND DISMEMBERED US AS WE PRODUCED SCHOLASTICALLY DRIVEN CHILDREN.
BLACK TEACHERS DON’T ACCEPT TALK BACK, DISRESPECT, RUDENESS AND INSOLENCE FROM CHILDREN THE WAY THESE WHITE TEACHERS DO, WE JUST DON’T. A CHILD JUST CAN’T KNOW MORE THAN THE RABONNI.
BLACK CHILDREN AREN NOT “ATTACKED” BY CHILDREN BECAUSE IT IS NOT IN OUR CULTURE BUT IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN WHITE CULTURES WHO ARE AFRAID OF THEIR CHILDREN.
BLACK TEACHERS RUN THEIR CLASSES, OWN THEIR CLASSES, LEAD THEIR CLASSES AND CONTROL THEIR CLASSES AND IT IS THERE LEARNING GOES ON UNTIL OUR WHITE COLLEAGUES COME A KNOCKING OR SLINGING CHILDREN IN THEM BECAUSE THEY CAN’T HANDLE THEM.
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My Gift!

The sunshine comes out and when it does there are no more clouds.

This first Christmas minus a vital family member was going to be hard but I got a gift that couldn’tbe matched.

My gifts are made up of space filled and time shared.

To see beauty in person

To see royalty up close

To see love cover

To be in her presence was my present and a gift she gave me.

Time means more than anything that could’ve been bought, ever.

I deeply and sincerely love that lady.

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Rachel Grant, Thank You!

Thank you for the CONsiderstion.

Thank you for the OPPortunuty.

Thank you for the LOVE you have for your mom.

After speaking with you, my heart, mind, spirit and soul shifted. Here I am in a new chapter, my children have lost their dad because of a negligent thig and inconsiderate citizens and I need a job.

I felt like I was taking crumbs and being a MAMMY with a price tag that says you were doing something grand for a woman who gave you seemingly everything and this is her reward.

I have the book, I LOVE YOU FOREVER by Robert Munsch signed for you.

As a BLACK WOMAN, we ALWAYS have to accept whatever and travel wherever to only spend more money, time and energy just to provide for our families, be upstanding, respectful and kind and go above and beyond our call of duty as we always have and do and I would do for your mom but I live in the hood and that travel would not be worth it for me and mine but for you and yours as America has structured.

This is ALL ME AND NOTHING ABOUT YOU per se’.

Do me a favor?

Take 5 minutes and write down WHY you are grateful for YOUR life and YOUR journey.

Take 5 minutes and write down HOW you impact the lives of those in YOUR circle known and unknown.

Take 5 minutes and write down WHY you appreciate the woman who have RAISED you toe BEcome, and TRANSform.

Take 5 minutes and write down HOW you can lessen burdens for YOUR life. (audible or inaudible/visible and invisible)

Take 5 minutes and write down WHAT you can honestly do to begin mending, healing and blossoming through ALL of your relationships. (As a WOMAN, the lemons we are served are plentiful and deep, NOW IT’S TIME FOR US ALL TO MAKE SOME LEMONADE)

Take 5 minutes and write down HOW you were able to face and CHAMPION what you did over your life.

Take 5 minutes and write down HOW YOU will do more self care for others.

Take 5 minutes and write a NOTE to a 7 year old you and gift it to YOU, you NEED AND DESERVE TO HEAR IT.

Remember, you ONLY have one OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE, DO AND SAY SO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT celebrate your MANY accomplishments, not implying you don’t but nothing like being encouraged to pat yourself on the back because for us BLACK WOMEN, that is one hard task and we rarely get the opportunity to do it STRESS FREE.

Every step you made in life was essential because had you been one millisecond too late, I wouldn’t be talking to you now.

Biological children your mom I know of have one;

YOU are afforded the opportunity to take your dear mom and from a distance, honestly love on.

Biological children I am guessing you have none of your own;

YOU are afforded the opportunity to MOTHER YOUR MOTHER, and this fact, none can speak ill on.

You mentioned you taught for many years, I question the sincerity, love and joy because I see a lot of teachers are quitting on our children because the heart, spirit and soul was never there, after their short span and they got what they wanted, they started businesses off of the backs of inner city Black and Brown children, their parents and the community and this is story well we African Americans can tell;

YOU are afforded the opportunity to leave a profession and become the CAREGIVER to a woman who witnessed her offspring successfully prevail?

Your mom is eighty five did you say, of which was a promise GOD gave to those who were lined up with HIS WILL;

YOU are afforded the opportunity to sit at your mom’s feet, take in what is left, love her without fail and share with each other how you honestly feel.

YOU are afforded the distinguished honor, privilege and honor to travel this last mile and YES embody your mom’s feebleness as you have inexplainable STRENGTH without reserve or question, this I do understand and know.

YOU are afforded the opportunity to do unto your mom that which she has done for you and allowed to mature into the woman you are today and now you are able to flutter and go.

This is one of the most hardest times of my life.

I want to thank you for being on my life’s wheel.

YOU too are helping me to: GROW, LEARN, HEAL, MEND, SHARE, GET, GIVE AND BLOOM.

Allow me to end with this……

MANTRA & MONTAGE!

The mantra Til Death Do Us Part is nothing but a montage of living, learning, growing, shedding, revealing, & becoming in life with another. Thank YOU for planting, investing, uprooting, bringing yo sunshine, wisdom, love, consideration, opportunities, referrals, open doors, access, open heart and arms into our lives during this 15 year of marriage.

Love Ya,

P.S. Not everyone has a TESTIMONY of HAVING THIS TESTIMONY of OPPORTUNITY!

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IT DIDN’T STOP HER!

SPEECH DEFECT DIDN’T STOP HER

STUTTERING DIDN’T STOP HER

STAMMERING DIDN’ST STOP HER

NERVOUSNESS DIDN’T STOP HER

TEASING DIDN’T STOP HER

FALTERING DIDN’T STOP HER

REPETITION DIDN’T STOP HER

UNCERTAINTYT DIDN’T STOP HER

SELF DOUBT DIDN’T STOP HER’

STUMBLING DIDN’T STOP HER

MUMBLING DIDN’T STOP HER

HESITATING DIDN’T STOP HER

STUMBLING DIDN’T STOP HER

BEING INAUDIBLE DIDN’T STOP HER

BEING INARTICULATE DIDN’T STOP HER

BEING INCOHERENT DIDN’T STOP HER

BELIEVING OTHER PEOPLE’S POSITIONS DIDN’T STOP HER

BEING ANXIETY FILLED DIDN’T STOP HER

NONE OF THESE THINGS STOPPED HER BECAUSE SHE USED HER DIFFERENT ABILITY TO PROPEL HER.

SHE HAD A PASSION TO SPEAK AND WRITE AND IT WAS BIGGER THAN WHAT SHE DIDN’T HAVE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAID WAS IDEAL AND PREFERRED.

NONE OF IT STOPPED HER AND SHE IS REACHING HEIGHTS SHE ONLY DREAMED OF.

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I GIVE YOU THIS CANDLE!

Grief is grief
Pain is pain
Hurt is hurt

Here thinking about CANdles and those going through are my muse.

CANdles are used in times of darkness.

CANdles are used for serenity.

CANdles are used to change moods.

CANdles are used to shed light.

CANdles are used to start fires

CANdles are used to provide warmth.

CANdles are used for vigils as a sign of unity and remembrance.

No matter how recent or long ago you have suffered a loss of someoneyou hold near and dear, TIME shifts thoughts, feelings, emotions and the heart.

The holidays may be rough.

The holidays may bring about depression.

The holidays may bring on irritability.

The holidays may bring about heaviness.

The holidays may cause one to be isolated and it is also requested or preferred.

I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO:

Give yourself as much time as you need.

Take the time you need.

Understand that TIME heals all wounds.

DO BE KIND to yourself because people are at various stages of their grieving process. (shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, testing and acceptance) and others want to care, love, support and uplift the best way they can.

I think the stages of grief are interchangeable and reoccurring as well with no time frame to move on and heal while time will come to do them both…….

I give everyone hurting, broken, grieving this season this CANdle as a symbol of yo being able to CAN.

Even in the midst of this darkness, going through the motions, silently battling mental anguish, and compassion  fatigue:

You CAN illuminate

You CAN light up

You CAN burn

You CAN spark

You CAN blaze

You CAN shine

You CAN glow

You CAN flash

You CAN polish up

You CAN fire up

You CAN be incandescence

I know you CAN because it’s already within you.

Sing with me,

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine, O this little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine…..

EVERYWHERE I GO

ALL IN MY HOME

MY GOD GAVE IT TO ME

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