Word For The Week: BLACK! “Building Faithful Families (BFF)” Fall Series What would Dr. King say about BLACK Friday and the BLACK Fergusons in America? What did he say about being BLACK in America? BLACKademically Speaking and straight to todays point: Have you ever considered that BLACK families struggle because BLACK people struggle? (Insert:Pause!) Well, the often misquoted, Dr. King brings home a critical point re: being BLACK in America when he says, “the nation made the Negros color a stigma. It became something evil..If you open Rogets Thesaurus, youll find 120 synonyms for BLACK. They are all degrading; smutty, dirty, lowly, every one of them. Now when you look for the 130 synonyms in that thesaurus for white, all of them [are] chaste, pure, everything elevated, and high and noble. So the society through its language structure came to the point of saying that a white lie is better than a BLACK lie. If someone goes wrong in the family, you dont call them a white sheep, its the BLACK sheep of the family…you dont call {it} whitemail you call it BLACKmail. Go right down the language structure, and you see that everything conspired to make the Negro think that there was something wrong with him because of his color. So, In step with our “Building Faithful Families (BFF)” Fall Series, we gotta stop acting as if color doesnt matter. I see color just like you and in this world, that matters. I’m not looking for a colorblind society. I love being “BLACK” – I’m looking for a fair & equitable society. With that said, to truly build our families, we gotta build on what it means to be “BLACK”. Our families have lost values because there’s no respectable value in being BLACK. In fact, if I could remix Dr. King’s thinking on this topic for today’s society, I’d use BLACK Friday as an example in light of BLACK people in Fergusons all throughout America. I’d say something like: This Friday, we’re going to spend money we don’t really have on things we don’t (at all) need. If/When questioned on how much we gave to Michael Browns legal fees, we’re going to tell people to, “mind your business.”...even as we refuse to research the minds of the businesses we give our dollars to. Who cares that some of them oppose educational policies that can help BLACK children even as they finance prison industries that largely imprison BLACK children? Yep, I’d say today, Dr. King thanks for your genius in 1968 re: being BLACK. But today its deeper than the definitions in the dictionary because now were now so emotionally reactionary. Like you sir, we cry & try to fight for justice - - - but unlike you, we wont curtail the spending that indirectly funds injustice. We adore our accomplishments and accumulation thus we simply wont march in lines for freedom, well just stand in them on Friday. We mean well Dr. King but we’ll simply get angry about the situation in Ferguson but we wont examine & change the causation of Ferguson. Then, in the end, well still be discussing why so many people, including us, don’t honor & respect what it means to be BLACK! © Chandra Gill, Ph.D. https://youtube/watch?v=Suw_CQ3zfTY Welcome to Mondays Message of Motivation & Education~ Blackademically Speaking
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:38:10 +0000
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