The arrogance of change

Yes,there is a need for change. However, do we alienate potential allies when we identify the problems in terms that relegate concerned citizens to the sidelines unable to understand the true plight? Sadly, in this battle to be labeled the super oppressed we desperately cling to the privilege of our scars. Scaring those whose wounds we ignore or deem unworthy to join in the fight. This fight to make the world a better place will take all willing participants. So, when we assume an arrogance in our victim hood we begin to simply make the same mistake as the oppressor. Falsely adopting the notion that we have private access to the the right way. I see in my mistakes the recognition that all who fight for revolution deserve to be called my brothers and sisters in the struggle. The divisive blinds of class, race, and gender can no longer be barriers to true community.

Simplicity

There is simplicity in life that is often ignored by needless distraction. The quickness with which we complain but the beauty is most don’t wish to leave and maybe those that due simply need to be reminded of their significance. Let us not allow for complexity to distort the simple truth that each moment is a gift. A gift that continues to provide us chances to enjoy that which we can never enjoy again. Moments that may be fleeting but are simply remnants of a larger cultural truth. That our time on the stage is fleeting and we must fight to enjoy the spotlight.

Broken Expectations

Do we ever choose to send apologies for broken expectations? Sadly, there are times that we fail to live up to the lofty promises of our expressions. So, we leave others in disarray as then begin to rely on those promises and are disappointed when our actions change and we begin reflecting a new truth. Truth be told so many of our interactions will end in broken expectations. So, we must simply hold fast to the idea that eventually our expectations will be cherished by those to fearful of causing us disappointment.

Profit off Black Bodies

You see this system still profits off black bodies. As new age slave masters still set the going rates for black labor. Sadly, they never intended to give blacks their just due. Our apathy is their greatest weapon as our weapons our continuously turned on one another. You see they still profit off black bodies. As we desecrate our blackness on the altar of white approval little is done to delay the tragedy. Its a tragedy the way they attempt to stifle our voices when we proclaim our love of blackness. Its like they covet our shame and rejoice when we embrace a post racial pose. You see they still profit off black bodies. And yet Black bodies no longer hang on trees but are still elevated for public spectacle behind prison walls.Sadly,steel bars still serve as tightened ropes still lynching our collective potential. You see they still profit off black bodies.

My Voice

It is my struggle to transcend the grips of helplessness that cements indifference as a lifestyle choice. I choose to wrestle with the real frustration that society is on a dangerous course but most are to distracted to notice. However, I allow for my frustration to fuel my struggle to simply be a voice. A voice that continues to imagine a world not yet here but nonetheless still possible. A voice that seeks to alarm all those who will listen while accepting the reality the most will continue to hit snooze. It my struggle to continue to speak even when affirmation is not forthcoming. I battle to recognize that the message is to important to allow for the vanity of I to triumph the message of we. So, I speak because the cause of liberation cannot be muffled by the static sounds of conformity. Let's Get Free!

For better or worse

For better or worse I believe that there is more to our existence than just survival. I believe that the essence of life is more than obligations and a time-clocked existence. This belief fuels my unwillingness to accept the status quo. I desire more for my life than servitude to a heartless state. A state that has broken its promise long before my rebellion. My rebellion is emboldened by its continued hypocrisy. So, I choose to stand in opposition to conformity. Conformity that only normalizes oppression and sanctions the belief that this is all there can be. No, there can be more and we deserve more. So let us fight for a new world or struggled to continuously to change this one. Let's Get Free!

The Post-Racial Myth

It is alluring at times to embrace the idea of post-racial. We desperately desire to allow for its tenets to provide simplicity where complexity was once commonplace. The myth of a post-racial society allows for a do over. It allows for us to divorce ourselves from a troubled history and ignore its implications on present day politics. Sadly, when we embrace the myth of post-racial we allow for the legacy of white supremacy to continually plague our democratic institutions. So, in the midst of these changing times we must resist the embrace of post-racial. We must remain vigilant in our witness to the reality that the persistence of the color line still seeks to paint portraits of certain populations in America in harsh tones. Our blindness to color is nothing to be applauded because it simply allows for the normalcy of whiteness to remain unchallenged.

Black Targets

Black Bodies remain targets. America still cannot understand that which it has been socialized to fear. So, it is this harsh reality that sets the backdrop for the systemic brutalization of precious black bodies. So, as countless precious souls leave this earth in the midst of questionable gun smoke we are forced to rationalize hoping it was a mistake. However, our mistake is believing that post-racial rhetoric can overshadow a history where to embody blackness was an unforgivable crime. And that the remnants of this legacy can be cleaned with the sterilizing bleach of good intentions.The truth of our condition must be made bare if we our to ever be free. So, as these crimes against humanity continue I ask brothers and sisters to emerge from the doldrums of complacency and take their rightful place at the table of revolution. The time is now! The only thing we have to lose is our chains! Let's Get Free!

Lebron or Kobe

It is crazy how eager we are to engage in debates about Kobe and Lebron but are strangely silent on issues of real importance. As college students are smothered under the weight of oppressive student debt silence lingers. As the American government seems content on moving to war with Iran our collective attention is turned towards the trivial. This is not to say that I do not engage in conversations of triviality. I will argue about whose better Lebron or Kobe, Kobe but I am partial to Lebron for hours on end. No, the issue is how this becomes the only thing we seem legitimately passionate about. Not systemic oppression or the vicious truth that the American dream is becoming less achievable by the day or that millions are suffering at the hands of our foreign policies that are fashioned by war profiteers who are intent on global domination. It is these realities that should compel us to converse for hours on end. It is these issues that should occupy our Facebook walls. Sadly, it is only when we are willing to engage in debates, about strategies in regards to dealing with oppression and injustice, with the fervor that we argue about our favorite players that change will be possible. Let's Get Free!