Open for discussion

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just a test to see if we realy care about those great folks, and thier struggle and work,

our folks,

and doing what is necessary.

the silence is deafening,

while our communities are slowly burning

no responses yet.

just a test to see if we realy care about those great folks, and thier struggle and work,

our folks,

and doing what is necessary.

You mean you haven't caught on to what I posted about black people in America a while ago? Love Rosa, Malcolm and King?...we don't even love our individual selves yet !! How can we when our minds are like computers...garbage in, garbage out. White people know this also and we have in essence subconsciously been programmed away from ourselves! You may not want to believe this but I can prove it. Right now you are the one with blinders on your eyes as it regards our people.

Their struggle is not OUR STRUGGLE !! They knew who their enemy was...we don't !!! We are trying so hard to be just like our enemy and for some reason you act as if you don't see this!!! If you really want to understand what has happened to our people, go to the video store and see if you can find the movie called; "Born Free". Walk the streets and take a poll. Ask the people "how much would the white man have to pay them to move back to Africa?" You'll love the responses!

What must we do to honor Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Dr. King daily?
Open for discussion

IMO, through education in schools and community outreach, through mentor programs, parenting and money management classes, savings and investment programs, teaching history through storytelling w/Elder participation, I think these are some areas we could concentrate on....

Please Don't Tell Martin
by Bitter B

Coretta Scott King

Thank you Ms. Coretta for the grace, strength, and dignity that you displayed.

Since your wonderful husband was assassinated by the bullets of fear and hate.

You know they killed him because of their ignorance.

Thank you for not allowing bitterness and anger to engulf your very existence.

Now that you are reunited with Martin tell him that they are stripping our rights away, day by day, but his fight was not in vain.

Tell him that although my generation glorifies drugs, debases black women in song, and calls us vulgar names – that his dream still remains.

Our men no longer celebrate our natural black beauty – we have to have long weaves, small waists, and big ole booties.

The videos are so degrading, they mirror soft porn.

Us Blacks own television stations now, but that’s all that’s shown.

Tell Martin that my generation apologizes for its lack of respect for his legacy and the dormancy of our elders, we might as well call this the "Civil Rights of Unmovement Era."

Tell him that although we as black people make more than we’ve ever seen, that we squander it on diamond clad teeth, 24 inch rims, and designer clothes due to our sagging self-esteem.

Tell Martin that our babies are growing up without fathers, while the mothers are catching buses just like he remembers.

Our children take to the streets in droves, not to march or proclaim the injustice of this nation, but to pledge their gang affiliation.

I can’t rhyme to this next line. On any night thugs hang out while bullets ring out - not freedom.

And yes we continue to be judged by the color of our skin by America but I wonder most about the lack of the content of our character.

Advise him that the grand-daughters of the Civil Rights era are making their money as strippers.

The Grand-sons of the marchers are ignoring their sons and daughters and hanging and slangin’ on corners.

They’re going to jail in mass numbers, not for protesting, marching, or defying racism, but because they commit illegal acts to gain materialism.

Our children are making babies, ignoring education, committing felonious capers, I’d wish they’d read his Birmingham Jail Papers.

Tell Martin that those in the ghetto are not the only ones forgetting his dream.

There are those who’ve forgotten where they came from because of a little cream.

Who refuse to give back to the community, because their motto is ‘More for me’.

They’ve forgotten how to lend a helping hand, to help their fellow man – all the while thinking, ‘If I can make it, they can’.

Looking down without offering a leg up, getting on elevators with their noses up.

Some of us are even republicans now, but that’s a very exclusive black crowd.

Striving to get to the top of the ladder, to make their pockets fatter – instead of doing something that truly matters.

Leaving the ‘hood’ in droves and only moving back when Whites buy up all of the homes.

Tell Martin that we still like to dance and sing, but not Negro spirituals cuz we’ve got Beyonce grinding and shaking her thing.

Ms. Coretta, this may hurt poor Martin the most – it just may seal the deal, we as a people don’t attend church anymore.

Cuz we’ve gotten a little education and found out that God wasn’t real.

For those of us who still believe, it makes us want to holla, we’ve got a pimp named Bishop and a Bishop named Dollar.

I don’t know Ms. Corretta, maybe you’d better not tell Martin that for all that he’s done to make us free, equal, and just – that we still migrate to the back of the bus. I’ll bet looking down – he doesn’t recognize us.

We’ve forgotten how to march, protest, and vote - but be at the club, standing in line for hours – in the freezing cold.

Sporting the latest gear; stilettos, hoochie clothes, teeth that’s froze, and Tims – driving cars with less tire more rim. Dying to get in so that we can ‘shake it fast’, drop it like it’s hot’ – forgetting the respect and dignity that we were taught.

I neva' thought I’d think this thought, but please don’t eva' give Martin your report.

Ms. Coretta, maybe you should just avoid mentioning my generation all togetha'.



Bitter B

Released: January 31st, 2006

http://playahata.com/

thank you,

you understood that a solution oriented focus mentality is the key as opposed to a mentality that only accentuates the negative, without seeking a solution

You mean you haven't caught on to what I posted about black people in America a while ago? Love Rosa, Malcolm and King?...we don't even love our individual selves yet !! How can we when our minds are like computers...garbage in, garbage out. White people know this also and we have in essence subconsciously been programmed away from ourselves! You may not want to believe this but I can prove it. Right now you are the one with blinders on your eyes as it regards our people.

Their struggle is not OUR STRUGGLE !! They knew who their enemy was...we don't !!! We are trying so hard to be just like our enemy and for some reason you act as if you don't see this!!! If you really want to understand what has happened to our people, go to the video store and see if you can find the movie called; "Born Free". Walk the streets and take a poll. Ask the people "how much would the white man have to pay them to move back to Africa?" You'll love the responses!

THERE WAS AN AFRICAN PROVERB ABOUT A SO CALLED REVOLUTIONARY WHO ORDERED THAT A GROUP OF MEN BE BEATEN NEARLY TO DEATH BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO READ HIS MANIFESTO REGARDINGTHE OBVIOUS OPRESSION OF THE COLONIZERS AND HOW SILLY THEY LOOKED IN FOLLOWING THE EUROPEANS,

IT WAS NOT UNTIL DAYS LATER THAT HE WAS TOLD BY A LITTLE CHILD THAT THE MEN DID NOT REFUSE BUT WERE ALL ACTUALLY BLIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE POINT IS IF HE HAD READ THE MANIFESTO TO THEM IN LIGHT OF THEIR HANDICAP A SOLUTION HAD THE CHANCE TO OCCUR!!!!!

I DON'T SEE THE UTILITY OF BEATING UP ON FOLKS THAT THE ELITE AMONG US KNOW ARE BRAINWASHED

IN MY OPINION I WOULD RATHER SPEND MY TIME TRYING TO DEVISE WAYS TO GET THEM OUT OF AND HEAL THEM FROM THAT CONDITION:qqb012:

:SuN034:

Peace,

One thing we could do to honor their memory is get their names right.

The former Malcom X changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. :fyi:

Peace
Precise

Thank you, and you know the NSA, CIA, and NRO refer him to that new name in thier files.

My inquiry was to how are we replicate the sense of urgency, that these folkshad amongstthose of us that know better and should be organized in a consensus to discuss the survival of the bulk of our community that are catching hell, here and globally

Thank you, and you know the NSA, CIA, and NRO refer him to that new name in thier files.

My inquiry was to how are we replicate the sense of urgency, that these folkshad amongstthose of us that know better and should be organized in a consensus to discuss the survival of the bulk of our community that are catching hell, here and globally
Indeed. They got logs on everybody that talks all this pro black stuff. They got you too. So what?

I'm in tune with your point. I'm just adding on that if your perspective on an individual is skewed then so will your living out what they advocated. El-Hajj was no joke back in his NOI days. He was less militant and easier on white people in his post NOI days.

So what is my methodology for reaching the blind, deaf and dumb so that they can get on board with being proactive in the struggle against mental death, lack of civilization and white supremacy? Each one teach one. Start out by building strong, black, homes, then strong, black, communities. Success in this regard among old, scared, black people is gonna be limited so focus on what we in Allah's Nation focus on........ the youth.

Peace
Precise

"I'm just adding on that if your perspective on an individual is skewed then so will your living out what they advocated. El-Hajj was no joke back in his NOI days. He was less militant and easier on white people in his post NOI days."

Your methodology I agree is the path to take however I do not understand your particular logic since to all acounts of those who personaly knew Malcolm, or were members of the Oragnization of African American Unity, he took that name after leaving the NOI, and became more militant and more Pro Black after he left the nation and felt that religious differences were a distraction to our common peril.

The actual processes, both scientific and mathematical rather then rheotorical for reaching the youth, were dilineated in the Charter of the Organization of African American Unity.
had we collectively followed that blueprint 45 years ago;
we would not see our youth in the condition they are in today