Pieces in my mind

The Miseducation of Blackness

Black-

lacking hue and brightness;absorbing light without reflecting and of the rays composing of it, eveloped in darkness.dark, dusky; sooty, inky; swart, swarthy; sable, ebony; dirty, dingy  sad, depressing, somber,

, mournful,funereal disastrous, calamitous sinful, inhuman, fiendish, devilish, infernal, monstrous;  horrible, nefarious, treacherous, traitorous, villainous

All these words to depict a color. Man has cultivated our minds to assimilate to these terms used to refer to the color black. We as a culture of people have assimilated to these things. We sit and deprive ourselves of things that we should demand. Respect and Equality. We fall into the categories of the definition of the color black. 

We complain they we are being held down by "the oppressor" when the oppressors are our selves. We chain our minds down to things that are fed to us on television. False accusations on what our lives could and should be but never look at the simplicity of things we are blessed to have. We now call our BEAUTIFUL BLACK NUBIAN QUEENS bitches and look over the power in her heart and fault her for you insecurities. We also look over our POWERFUL BLACK MEN and never give them the opportunity to excel because of the faults of others and the fear that they may have the capabilities of being better because of their rich history in leading the villages to safety. Huey P Newton once stated "The black-teenage is most impressionable and vulnerable years, looks around and sees a contradiction between society's expressed values and reality-the way things actually are. The "LIl Wayne"(The Sonny Man) of the community who defy authority and "break the law" seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material possessions. On the other hand, people who work hard and struggle ad suffer much are the victims of greed and indifference, losers. This insane reversal of values presses heavily on the Black community. The causes originate from outside and are imposed by a system that ruthlessly seeks its own rewards, no matter what the cost in wrecked human lives.We have began to fall in love with the names on the tags of our clothes and the faces on the bills in our pockets that are nothing but the devils way of distracting us from our may goals on life which is to serve our people and provide for our families. We assimilate with things that revolve around us instead of being the race we were created to be and taking our place as the kings and queens we were thought our to be.

We have become this negative race because we have never fought to be the dominant race. We find comfortability in our everyday life and find negative reasons to live our life on a day to day bases. We live for the week-end or we live for riches and fame and we'll step on our own to  get there. We are better than this. We need to learn to stand-up and fight for what we know is right. Huey P Newton said it best in Revolutionary Suicide "Our image of ourselves was defined for us by textbooks and teachers. We not only accepted ourselves as inferior; we accepted the inferiority as inevitable and inescapable." Forgive them father for they know not what they do. We wonder why we are judged by our external and never by our internal because of how we portray ourselves, the way black is portrayed within itself without even bring a face, soul and skin to it. I used to be the same person. Caught in the limelight and everyone else perception of me mattered. I have to experience myself WHO I AM. More than a word can define, more than any man can intertwine and more than any person can unscramble in some psychological experiment. I am a black woman in search for an outlet for our black culture. I wear black for everyday of Feb to show that black is not negative. Black is strength, pride, dignity, my people, my culture, my boldness and most of all it is a piece of my as an Afro-American.

Join the movement to change the depiction of black the depiction of us as a people the depiction of us as African-Americans. Make your signature #ItsaRevolution to show that we are ready for a change. Even though change takes time every effort counts to a reform on our views of ourselves and later others views on us.