“CHANGE THE NARRATIVE”..
These BLARING CONTRADICTIONS are shifting the political landscape in our nation. But, some of us don't want to really broach the subject, or face the music on a practical level...
It's VERY PAINFUL to "deal with our stuff", while also finger-pointing at the incidences where "improper procedure" or "selective profiling" with the police (as an example) has been exposed; as it rightfully MUST and SHOULD BE, every time it's discovered..
While, the HATE-filled "political landscape" (BOTH PARTIES) — and the "selective-outrage" and hostility that we have for these incidences that are REALLY "few and far between", they can't fully account for THE STATE OF OUR COMMUNITIES!!
And, when we decide to CONFRONT THESE ISSUES, there will be an "accelerated healing" and "community transformation amongst black folks" in our communities — and, its MY PRAYER that we "get there"; VERY QUICKLY!
The "narrative" of the "high tops", about BLACK FOLKS (in particular) has ALREADY SHIFTED. Because, we're NO LONGER the "majority-minority"; it is often said that WE tend to be "difficult to deal with" — in the context of COMPARISON with "other ethnic groups", with similar social ills or statistical disparities and incongruences; but we're waiting on the GOVERNMENT or PRESIDENT to change it?!?
With THAT being said, although we ARE a trend-setting, powerfully energizing, and historically impactful community in ALL ASPECTS of America's diversity, history and prosperity— along with our rich heritage, uncommon resiliency, and indistinguishable spiritual depth and expressive insight, "as a people", we're SO DIVIDED on many important fronts, and there appears to be NO UNIFIED VOICE of "how" to shift the realities that have existed far too long; and it actually STARTS with YOU and ME!
And, because we seem detached or desensitized from our RICH HISTORY and MANY of our IMPORTANT TRADITIONS, we've BOUGHT INTO THE LIES that the government, media and society has used to paralyze us — from mobilizing and supporting one another, because of INCOMPLETE or MISINFORMED INTERPRETATIONS (opinions) of our "allies and friends", politically and socially speaking; which also "has us at one another's throat", about the approach to HEALING, REOCCUPYING and DISPOSSESSING our own communities in the struggle, that continues to this very day — with too many of us "going on with OUR LIVES"..
BUT, NOW it's "time" TO ARISE!
Will YOU help to HEAL OUR LAND?
THE SOLUTION, as I "see it":
FOCUS on "healing our own communities", by REFUSING to allow "finger pointing" and "self destruction" to continue as the "unspoken narrative" or the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM; so we can MOVE FORWARD, instead of waiting on ALL WHITE PEOPLE(?) to stop — what exactly?
YES, there's a HISTORY OF INJUSTICE that's been perpetrated by folks with a "lighter hue of skin"; NO QUESTION..
BUT, that HATE, IGNORANCE or PREJUDICE is a "human heart issue"; NOT "just about", COLOR! In other words, WE have to "sweep around our own front doors", about these kinds of issues as HUMAN BEINGS, no matter "what color" we are..
WE MUST become "agents of healing" in OUR WORLD, by EDUCATING, INVESTING and MINISTERING — where the darkness seems to have prevailed the most; and then, where THE SYSTEM in that community, region or territory has long NEEDED TO BE CONFRONTED, by the concerted efforts of ALL BLACK PEOPLE; no matter what "hood", "street", "tribe", "village", "community", or "nation" that we come from...WS-3
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