Am I the only
one still wondering how we can function as if nothing is wrong with
America?
How is it that the normalization of modern-day
lynching still goes unpunished?
How does mass incarceration continue to cloak the
three-syllable word that is the fabric of this society? [Slavery]
White people have finally figured out how to tax
weed, but black and brown people remain in custody for merely using their
environment to eat.
It’s business as usual.
“Still a nigga!” Jay Z writes in 4:44.
We still
niggas.
Fuck your education. Fuck your foreign and
six-figure income with the model-type wife/husband!
Fuck your projects and generations of people who
lived there before you.
Who cares that your people were spoon fed heroin and
crack; locked up at disproportionate rates to whites?
We call it a health
epidemic now!
Once you niggas integrated into the school system,
we de-funded it!
Once you integrated into our neighborhoods after
MLKs assassination, our companies dis-invested.
We created food deserts and
crises to justify a campaign aimed at being tough on criminals—black ones.
We kill anyone who is a threat to the status quo.
Check The Black Codes. See Fred Hampton and a list too long to quote.
And fuck your Black Wall Street too.
We hand-pick and socially promote the niggas we can
control. See Kaepernick.
We psychologically perpetuate PTSD and vicarious
trauma. We leave you in shame with nowhere to turn for help. The most severe cases
are institutionalized for profit.
We literally give you the fear of Jesus.
We let your black preachers exploit like drug
dealers do. The liquor and lottery lines have you so confused. It’s a gamble
either way. You get an emotional high no matter which one you choose. But
remain too brainwashed to filter the truth.
I hope the white people reading this are cringing.
We too often put the ownness on another group to
change or we blame the victim.
I don’t need the pity parties or the fake Jane Addams
coming into a neighborhood showing us how to assimilate. Every time we attempt
to take care of our own, the FBI opens a file. We just need you to tell the
government to leave us alone.
There have always been white people telling the
other white people how to treat any other race, but especially blacks. We need
your help again.
Are we as a whole pissed? Yep!
Nothing has changed. I mean, a few battles and flags
posted, but police still do the same shit that they did during the Tubman days.
So, no, I don’t feel like cleaning up the rhetoric
to fit into a nationally circulated blog or print paper to prove a point.
I’m no Eric Dyson, Tavis Smiley or any other
brilliant pontificator on the subject. I can only tell you that I’m tapped out
of university-bought jargon combined with the evidenced based-practice to prove
a point that is as obvious as shit is to piss.
This experiment is fucked up for the majority.
Even worse for niggas.