I have come to the realization that the lack of the ability of the majority of citizens of these United States, in particular we African Americans, t think critically is intentional and have taken a turn for the worse. It like clear that the main reason for this is that the power that be know and accept that a lot of money is made when folk do not have the ability to think critically.
Over the past two weeks, two specific events have
drawn me to conclude of such, as that distractions seem to garnish more
attention than events and occurrences that actual merit our focus the most: the
Donald Sterling Saga and the skit on Saturday Night Live written and performed
by Leslie Jones.
Seems that the only thing we black
folk get up in arms about is our skin color, confederate flags and the n-word. It as if we only have our antenna out to pick
up what bigots say but can't see the forest for
the trees. The issues that are
destroying our community go unattended and are pushed back in our collective unconscious,
in particular for this generation in which they believe that just because a politician
is black and a democrat you can’t say anything wrong about the person policies,
not the man I mind you but policies. If we were in tune to other issues, we
would likely in the case of Sterling attend to his message about institutional
racism in America and abroad, specifically alluded to by what he stated pertaining
to the real manner in which Israel treat blacks and Africans. But no we do not. If we had our ears to the ground, we would
attempt to address and discuss the bigger issue of how and why owners get
public support through stadium subsidies & even antitrust exemptions in
cities where the urban areas are mainly African American and Latinos, whom tax monies
build the large stadium complexes but is not poured in the despondent and deplorable
public education systems the vast majority of us send our kids too. No we don’t dare address such.
On the real, why are we concerned about
multi-millionaires that play professional sports when the quality of life for
most black men in America is mostly negative? It seems that the only place
black men are over represented where they display a modicum of success are in
the sport and entertainment industry, and frankly, I am frequently more
offended by the lyrics of rappers like Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, 2 Chains, and Future
than by what Donald Sterling said or Leslie Jones performed.
The truth is that all that is negative, pessimistic,
gloomy and associated with failure is where we as black men are vastly and
disproportionately over-represented. Nationwide we account for more than 50% us
dropout rate and maintain the lowest
college enrollment than any other group by ethnicity and gender in the nation.
In Mississippi, Michigan, Louisiana, Indiana, Georgia,Florida, District of Columbia, California, Arkansas, Alabama and many other
states 10% of less of black males in high school read above an eighth grade level.
Personally I think mass incarceration deserves more
attention that a television comedy show or a NBA owner. Those who kill
non-Latino whites are over three times more likely to be sentenced to die as
those who kill African-Americans. The killer (no pun intended) is that for the
same crimes, the odds of receiving a death sentence are nearly four times (3.9)
higher if the defendant is black.
Then there is the lucid observation that we as
African American men are more likely to be unemployed, under employed, trapped in low wage jobs, have higher rates of job instability, lower wages, and
extremely longer bouts with unemployment; which may account for why nearly 49 percent of black men are arrested for non-traffic
offenses by the time they turn twenty-three.
I can’t comprehend why a whole bunch of us black
folk more concerned and vocal about millionaire slaves and racist owners, or a comedian
when, most of us are living from paycheck to paycheck, have suffered huge
financial setbacks and are still scared about the future. The cold, hard truth
is that we have one microscopic group of folk who have resources, are making
loot and continue to enhance their financial position and a president that has increased their wealth. But we do not dare address this, specifically that the economic conditions of African Americans has gotten worse over the last five years more than any time in modern history.
None of this gets us mad, just old outdated bigots
that allow us to show our support for political correctness and other cultural Marxist
beliefs. Even Ebony magazine chimed in on this by unleashing their racist watch
dog extraordinaire Jamila Lemieux on a comedy skit, on
the same weekend in Chicago (Ebony’s own backyard) in which 4 people were killed and 24 others are injured in shootings. The same weekend in which Donnell Flora, 25, who uses a wheelchair took a bus to deliver a gun to his niece to
shoot a 14 yr. old girl over a Facebook post over a boy. Then there is the fact that in Chicago, 92 percent of African American men are unemployed. But none of this was
exciting enough, no racism involved, therefore again pushed deep back in the
recesses of the black mind. Maybe they need to talk about the issues that would
make folk write books with titles like “Food Stamp Bitches,” or why maternal
deaths are on the rise among African American women in the United States, but I
doubt it. Even going back to look at Richard Pryor’s slave sketch he did on his
show when I was a teen in the 1970s, seems would upset black folk today, which
makes me think his comedy would be viewed as inappropriate currently. But these
same folk yell free speech when it is Beyoncé, Lil Boosie or some other
subject-verb challenged miscreant.
As a community we rarely write about our deep issues
and concerns like we once did, nor are we black writers interested in such,
because to do so would mean looking at the mirror and accepting that a lot of
our problems are not and cannot be singularly attributed to racism. How many of
US would hold our kids to the standard of nothing less than a 95% being
acceptable to bring home as a grade as Kwasi Enin parents did? Parents? How
many of us will cut the TV off and sit with our kids and do homework and read
to them instead of watching the Real Housewives of Atlanta? How many of us take
our kids to the library weekly or even own library cards. Small things can and
do make a difference.
Sometimes being distracted by thing we cannot change
does our community more harm than good, by taking our attention from what we
CAN address and deal with in our own backyard. Truth is, it was Abraham Lincoln
who said and wrote: “Free them [black slaves] and make them politically and
socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this" (Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II, p. 256). A man clearly who doesn’t or
couldn’t deserve the right to own a NBA team in today's, world of intolerance
and impracticality.
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