Why WE can’t move forward.

“Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.” 

I normally try to stay out of controversial conversations or debates for the sole reason that they are typically heated debates. Unless you want to see an ugly side of me, you don’t try to upset me on purpose. And everyone knows during debates, no matter what side you’re on, someone gets butt hurt.

So for that sole reason, I avoid controversial conversations or debates. 

Or I should say I AVOIDED controversial debates up until today.

Yesterday I read this disturbing article about a professor who is an incoming assistant professor at Boston University. If you haven’t read it, here’s a link. 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/9/saida-grundy-boston-university-professor-white-mal/

And I have a few things to say. Obviously. 

Ladies and Gents, racism is doing just fine and dandy in our day in age. It’s thriving as if slavery happened yesterday and that’s a problem.

I want everyone to throw the Slavery Card out. Just take it out of your back pocket, rip it up and throw it out. 

Let me get one thing straight with all of you! Slavery between blacks and whites ended almost 200 years ago. I’ll repeat that for you. That is a 2 with two fat 00’s. 

200 Years Ago! 

Now I’m not entirely sure of why you’re still blaming us white folks for what happened almost 200 years ago as we had absolutely no control over what Ours or Your ancestors did. 

And I say “Yours” simply because there had to be someone over in Africa who was selling your ancestors to the slave owners. It’s not like the folks from the first colonies invaded Africa and took your ancestors without consent. Your ancestors were selling your ancestors. 

So if you’d like to point a finger at someone, please do us all a favor and stop pointing it at white folks living today. Try pointing it at your ancestors for a change. For someone’s ancestors were doing the selling and trading. 

Mind you, I’m not saying what my ancestors did was right by any means but don’t you dare punish me for something I didn’t do.

And now that we’ve covered that part of this lecture, let’s review how we earn rewards in life. 

It’s very simple. Elementary simple.

In order for you to reap benefits in life, you must work towards receiving those benefits. Our country seems to be handing out freebies more and more these days but even then, they aren’t anything to brag about. 

Sure, you may think that you’re owed something in life for the things your ancestors went through but in all honestly, you don’t deserve a damn thing in life if you don’t work for it. 

That goes for every person who breathes. If you don’t bust your ass on a daily basis, don’t come complaining when you don’t have the finer things in life. Don’t you dare complain when someone else has nicer things than you. They earned it, you on the other hand didn’t. 

Now I’m aware that you believe white people have the upperhand, but in all honestly, they had to start at the bottom to get to where they are now. They didn’t carry themselves with a kind of attitude that told others they deserved the world but weren’t willing to work for it. They started with nothing and worked for everything.

So as a whole, we need to put ourselves in our own little corners and we don’t need to come out of these corners until we have a change in attitudes. 

America is a land full of opportunites and if you want to reap benefits from those opportunities, you best believe you’re going to bust your ass for those benefits. 

No more “I deserve the world for what you did 200 years ago” kind of attitude. 

It’s old. It’s absolutely absurd. And you’re the only one that feels that way. So give it a break! Please and thank you! 

If you want racism to cease, then stop bringing it to the dinner table, to the work office and to any area in life that could possibly have any ties with racism. 

And please realize that as a whole, black folks use the racism card and VICTIM CARD more often than a white folk would. 

STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT! 

You aren’t the victims! The people you blame and trash talk and harm are the victims. Those people who have never done a single thing wrong to you but you harm verbally or physically are the real victims.

Not you, definitely not you, and not you! 

So just like you did with the SLAVERY CARD, rip that sucker up and don’t ever use the VICTIM CARD again. It won’t work!

Also, let’s try to remember one little thing. #AllLivesMatter 

Whether you are black, white, tan, albino or any other color, all of our lives matter!

It may be a weird or hard concept to understand, but it’s true. Black lives are no more important than asian, white or yellow lives.

So for the millionth time, just stop! This isn’t the 1800’s! That time has long ago passed. 

And lastly, if you want to bitch and whine about slavery, please make yourself useful and help a cause that’s relevant to this day in age.

For example, women and children (even men and boys) are sold as sex objects around the world on a daily basis. 

You could make yourself useful and help save those lives from endless torture and strife. 

If you can’t do that then please give it up! It’s the 21st Century and we have moved on as you should too! 

We’re not asking you to forget but we are asking you to forgive and move on. Live your life to better the country as a whole and not for a particular race. 

And just remember, don’t get butt hurt when someone offends you or your race if you’re the one offending someone else and their race! 

The victim card no longer exists for your benefit! That goes for anyone of any race! 

Learn to appreciate differences and to live in harmony with each other!

A Double Standard Exists

As a young lady who just graduated from college with a degree in Journalism, it’s safe to say that I’ve studied and become familiar with how our media system works. Media outlets produce and cover stories that meet a certain predisposing belief or idea that the majority of people will react to.
A story about a couple who were brutally beaten, raped and killed back in 2007 went under the radar in news coverage. Recently, a young black teenager was shot and killed by a Police Officer and this has caused chaos and an outcry from people all over the country. Since that unfortunate event happened, people have started claiming that the news story from 2007 was under reported. If I may say so myself, I am one of those individuals who believe this story received less news coverage than it deserved.
Let me begin by saying that I am not racist in any way, shape or form. In all honestly, I have a low tolerance in general for people who don’t act like ladies and gentlemen in public, who act as if proper English is a foreign language to them, and who act like their race should be handed what they think they deserve in life without having to work for it. That goes for any person. It doesn’t matter if you’re black, white, red, yellow or blue.
With that being said-
In 2007, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were brutally beaten, raped and killed by not one, but five black individuals. To just give a brief history of the case, Newsom was raped and beaten before he was forced to walk barefoot to a nearby railroad track where he was shot three times. He was shot in the neck and back and then in the head execution style. If that wasn’t enough, they then set his body on fire. Unfortunately, Christian was tortured for a longer period of time. During this time, she was raped by more than one individual which caused her to suffer from injuries that are just too unbearable to mention. After these individuals sexually assaulted her, they realized that their DNA was now in this young lady so they forced her to drink bleach and then scrubbed her body with bleach. If that weren’t enough, they tied her arms and legs together, put a grocery bag over her head, wrapped her body in five trash bags and left her to slowly suffocate in a trash can in the house this all took place at.
Tell me that isn’t one of the most brutal hate crimes you’ve ever heard of and yet, most people are just now hearing of this awful, gruesome murder story seven years later.
A young black teenager was killed almost a week ago and it has made national news. He was shot. Point blank. The bullet killed that young individual immediately. I’m not saying that what happened was right. I wasn’t there. I’m not the officer that pulled the trigger and I’m not one of the people who claim to have witnessed the shooting.
But then you have a 23 year old male and a 21 year old female who were kidnapped, brutally raped, beaten and murdered and this story was under reported and overlooked.
Please tell me what is wrong with today’s society. You can make an enormous deal out of one individual being shot and killed by a white officer and then completely ignore what five black individuals did to a young white couple. I realize these two incidents are completely different. One individual was shot and died a quick death whereas two individuals lived out their last final hours in agonizing pain and horror. How can you rally for one individual and let two others, who suffered far worse, just be brushed under the rug as if it isn’t a big deal? That is not right. Not by a long shot. You cannot allow a race to play the victim card every chance they get and then brush it under the rug when that said race becomes the culprit.
I’m not a racist, but I’m not one of those people that just turns a blind eye to the ‘Reverse Racism’ card. It irritates and irks me when people act as if they’re always the victim when in reality; your race does just as much damage to the other race.
There is a double standard when it comes to racism and you can give the media a round of applause for that.
You see, the media knows exactly what stories will cause an uproar and the media has an agenda that they will push. The media likes to play the ‘Reverse Racism’ card as often as possible. That explains why most stories with white victims who were violated by black individuals aren’t covered quite as often as black victims who were violated by white individuals.
Everyone says that racism in this country needs to cease and desist but how can it when the media plays the ‘Reverse Racism’ card so well? How can racism in this country cease and desist if we let ourselves give into these predisposed beliefs? How can racism in this country cease and desist when we pull apart as a country every time an incident like the Michael Brown incident occurs? How can racism cease and desist when people are always pointing the finger at the other race?
Racism is going to exist for decades to come because the media is always going to have an agenda that they’ll continue to push on you. Racism is going to continue to exist because those beliefs are already learned and taught without us even being aware of it. Racism is going to exist because you will always have groups of people within every race that will urge us to pull apart from each other and who will always point a finger.