My Soul Looks Ahead

"The Slave went free; 

stood a brief moment in the sun; 

then moved back again toward slavery"

WEB DuBois

I fear with some of our thinking, this is where we are [headed]. What is it that Harriet said about shooting some of our folks? Perhaps she should have...

Yesterday I read that a republican candidate with Black skin publicly scorned Vanessa Williams for singing Lift Every Voice and Sing, the Black National Anthem, on PBS in celebration of Juneteenth becoming a national holiday. She said it was divisive...

I learned a few weeks ago that 4 years ago, a "man" with Black skin, "Rev" jesse peters, launched July as white history month. Because they needed it...

Although perhaps unconsciously, we have so internalized double standards intended only for us, intentionally designed to hold us down, that it is us who now advocates for enforcement of the Black Codes, I mean double standards, that keep us in our place...

We are becoming the proverbial foot on our own neck. We are proud however and want the world to see, that the shoe on that foot has a red bottom. SMH...

We actually fight to be king crab pulling others of us back down to suffocate beneath us at the bottom of the barrel.

 
All too often it is now us who is unbothered, unmoved and all too joyful to be seated beneath the tree bearing strange fruit dangling above that looks like us. All too often it is us who has provided the rope...

Too many of our youth is obsessed with 'bling' and not interested at all in our history, the shoulders they stand on or the source of the blood, sweat and tears that afforded them the opportunity or ability to achieve that bling. They have bootstraps...

Too many of us are far too happy to be seated at corporate and other tables not prepared by or for us and have zero interest or concern about making place or room for others of us. Pass the wine...

Meanwhile, our Vice President said America is not a racist country...

I could go on...

The white man's work is done. He need now only sit back, eat popcorn and wait. We are becoming our worst enemy.

My Soul Looks Ahead and Weeps...

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