Retrospect for Life: “A Fizzy Story”
Happy Birthday
RIP, Brother Bell
Good afternoon, people. Before I get started, let me say, ” Happy Birthday, Huey”. I hope everyone is having a safe and productive week. I’ve been trying to decide what to write and I honestly had a few things swimming around in my head. I thought about telling you guys about me being born with cerebral palsy and how this was a MAJOR reason for me trying to shut the naysayers up, ( nah, too corny), paying homage to BGLO’s (Black Greek Letter Organizations), (too easy..still possible), and then I finally decided I was going to comment on the Federal Government’s “pardoning” of the NYC police officers who gunned down Sean Bell.
Sean Bell was GUNNED down the day he was supposed to get married. Three of the five detectives involved in the “murder” were later acquitted and basically not held responsible for their actions. After the mayor of the city comes and says he thinks “excessive force” was used and then NOTHING happens…it’s sad…No justice. No peace. RIP Sean Bell. As I stated earlier, via Twitter: “I have never been more ashamed of the Federal Government then I am right now..” Who is going to fight for the black man? It’s becoming painfully obvious that we aren’t going to be protected by the same people who are “sworn to protect us” and it’s obvious that the rules are different (depending upon the color of your skin..yea I said it) Black men have been at a SUPREME disadvantage from the time we were in chains! Yes, while we have had our freedom fighters, advocates, and “superheroes”…we were still beaten, lynched, spat on , disrespected and made mockery of! Who’s going to stand up for us now? Al? Jesse? or another set of “Civil Rights All-Stars?”
I’m of the opinion that we need to start looking out for our own….like it was in the 60′s, 70′s, and early 80′s..”we need our villages back”…We need more community activists, more people WILLING/UNAFRAID to make noise about the senseless profiling, killing, stupidity, and lack of basic human necessities that are running rampant in the black community. Who’s going to stand up? You don’t need to go crazy by taking to the streets ala “the Watts riots”, but we need to show that this disrespect will no longer be tolerated!
“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.” -Malcolm X
Well Well Well Fizzy my favorite revolutionary… What you’ve stated in this post “Aint Nothin but the Truf” Will the problem go away? Probably not… Like you said, WE need to take initiative to take care of one another!! Stop being a hinderance on our bretheren and help lift him up!! If we have this mindset, WE.CANT.FAIL.
We haven’t had a Moses in a VERY long time. It’s sad that nobody wants to stand up because there is this notion among those who have the voice that we’ve arrived. Thankfully for the most part our women have held us down even w/out returning the favor to the same extent. Dead Prez said, “We Need a Revolution.”