And how do we act? What is the proper decorum and defense for black brothers? I am forty-two years old and have been raised to live in a consciousness of who I am in America. I am twenty two times more likely to be shot and killed as a black man in America than a white man. Even after all these years, all this so called accomplishment of education and work of respectablitly, reality stares me in the face and says, You still do not merit the right of your humanity. You are not counted still in justice. Will I ever truly be viewed more than 3/5s? I still live in a country that sees me as inferior. I still live in a country where at 42 I can get stopped four times by the police in one night because they see my North Carolina tags on a dark PA road. Yes, and at every stop I remember what my mama said and what my wife warns. Frederick, no suspicious activity. Be still and be nice. But why do I have to always change my behaviour? My life in America seems less that cigars, the lives of my brothers goes up in smoke. I have been black all of my life and I have been in battle to be me. I have been a young Mike Brown. Yes, me with all of these degrees and letters and accomplishments but it doesnt mean anything. I have been the one with my hands hands up. And today, in regards to the verdict, I cry for the black band of brothers saying like my brother Eric Garner, saying America, I cant breathe. Lord, we await your advent. Lord, we need your light in New York and Ferguson. And this preacher needs that light with because in America no place or space for the black man seems safe. Not the law, not the police, not the school, nor the justice system. So, I ask with all of this, How does the black brotherhood act?
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:16:48 +0000
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