Peace and Blessings Family,
I remember all of the noise regarding Katrina, how the government responded so slow ... black people dying, starving, living in terrible conditions for days. Everyone was up in arms about why the government didn't hurry up and save the majority black people that were not able to flee.
Even then I wondered why don't we have our own "FEMA" or something, organized, that can come in during these chaotic times and help our own people.
Now here we are again ... Detroit ... folk thirsty ... economic depravity .... and there's no black organization taking the lead, helping these black folk. Instead, we're crying and begging for the same people that have repeatedly shown us that they don't care about us like we think they should ... yet we continue to beg them.
We continue to fail to prepare for our own selves and our own people.
There will be another catastrophe ... i promise ... and we'll probably be as prepared then as we are now ... perhaps even less so ... for few are even talking about how we can fix our own problems, take care of our own people, give our own folk a tall glass of cold water ... nope ... most are looking to someone else, outside of us, to fix this. They say we spend billions a year collectively ... but there aint one collective nickel if anyone is hungry, starving, homeless, sick ... none of that.
Is this the long term cost of remaining with one's captors ... depending on them completely for survival? Teaching the children to do the same? Never creating anything substantive to save the collective, because our captors will do it?
Who does this in real life?
What's wrong with us?
Why isn't there more evidence of all this unity i hear folk talking about?
Are we begging in unison ... we are often unified about that, based on the discussions.
I just don't get it.
It's like being in an abusive relationship ... the man beats you ... you cry about how low down he is ... and then go right back to him 'cause he gave you a bauble or two ... and guess what ... he beats you again ... repeating the vicious cycle over and over ... never preparing to leave ... never leaving ... never breaking free.
I don't get it ... i really don't ... especially with so many forward thinking folk present.
I guess we'll be up in arms again soon ... for another catastrophe is sure to come.
Obviously ... economic depravity, homelessness, hurricanes, slavery, murders, death, prisons, no jobs, hunger, and now no water ... aint no 'nuff to move us to look out for our own selves. I heard someone say years ago, that the skin will be dripping from our bodies, and we still won't move.
Destee
I remember all of the noise regarding Katrina, how the government responded so slow ... black people dying, starving, living in terrible conditions for days. Everyone was up in arms about why the government didn't hurry up and save the majority black people that were not able to flee.
Even then I wondered why don't we have our own "FEMA" or something, organized, that can come in during these chaotic times and help our own people.
Now here we are again ... Detroit ... folk thirsty ... economic depravity .... and there's no black organization taking the lead, helping these black folk. Instead, we're crying and begging for the same people that have repeatedly shown us that they don't care about us like we think they should ... yet we continue to beg them.
We continue to fail to prepare for our own selves and our own people.
There will be another catastrophe ... i promise ... and we'll probably be as prepared then as we are now ... perhaps even less so ... for few are even talking about how we can fix our own problems, take care of our own people, give our own folk a tall glass of cold water ... nope ... most are looking to someone else, outside of us, to fix this. They say we spend billions a year collectively ... but there aint one collective nickel if anyone is hungry, starving, homeless, sick ... none of that.
Is this the long term cost of remaining with one's captors ... depending on them completely for survival? Teaching the children to do the same? Never creating anything substantive to save the collective, because our captors will do it?
Who does this in real life?
What's wrong with us?
Why isn't there more evidence of all this unity i hear folk talking about?
Are we begging in unison ... we are often unified about that, based on the discussions.
I just don't get it.
It's like being in an abusive relationship ... the man beats you ... you cry about how low down he is ... and then go right back to him 'cause he gave you a bauble or two ... and guess what ... he beats you again ... repeating the vicious cycle over and over ... never preparing to leave ... never leaving ... never breaking free.
I don't get it ... i really don't ... especially with so many forward thinking folk present.
I guess we'll be up in arms again soon ... for another catastrophe is sure to come.
Obviously ... economic depravity, homelessness, hurricanes, slavery, murders, death, prisons, no jobs, hunger, and now no water ... aint no 'nuff to move us to look out for our own selves. I heard someone say years ago, that the skin will be dripping from our bodies, and we still won't move.
Destee