Many of my posts are drawn from my personal life experiences. This one is no different. I am a very opinionated person and recently I was told that those opinions were also quite controversial. A statment which I do not necessarily deny by the way. This post is essentially about my Blackness in general and my attifude toward the White man. Sadly it seems, I cannot be classified as a fist pumping, power to the people, kind of individual. I am not still angry about slavery or being ripped from the Motherland. My situation is what it and the result of history, as is everyone elses in this world. Slavery was and is wrong on all levels. So is war and racism and any form of mistreation and denigration of any race or culture. Nonetheless this is not just the history of the Black man. It is history period. The fact that one might not choose to let oneself get caught up in the usual emotional aspects of those events, a hundred years later is not selling out. I know my history and others too, but you cant get stuck in history or in attitude. At some point you got to get on with the business of life and living and the business at hand. Its one things to recognize, know and teach the ways that one can and is oppressed, but that doesnt mean it has to be your lifestyle. My focus and personal opinion is that we must be aware of our environment and those who seek to destroy us, but we must also first and foremost be aware of those things within us that seek to do the same. The colonialization of Africa ravaged a country and I cant say how the typical African may feel today about his situation, but Im sure he still has his pride because his culture is still intact. As an American descendant of slavery we ahould be Americans but many shun that label as many of you know. We have been and still are trying to identity with what we are and who we are. Do we even have a cultural identity? Some may still identify their culture as African. I believe that to be a choice more so than a reality. After 400 years, we are more than likely just disenfranchised Black people, but Americans by any standard nonetheless. My position is that slavery was wrong and cruel, but somehow, someway, we must make something positive come out of it as you would any negative event or experience. We need to work on who we are and learn to be comfortable with that at some point. Knowing our complete history and not just about slavery may change us, but it wont make us. Today there are still many negative issues and influences in our inner culure that we must get under control before we can once again crown ourselves Kings and Queens. Education, family values and Black on Black crime, just to name a few, are issues of more importance to me and the Black community than rhetoric. I am all for the elevation of the Black man as a human being, but within that context, I also am in support of the elevation of all mankind as a whole.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:13:51 +0000
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