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Change is more than wanting lower gas prices and wanting to being able to afford your mortgage payments. Change is making things happen to make sure they don’t revert back to the same ole bs. Change is a Black President indeed, I support him without a doubt, but it does not end there, especially when so many don’t want him there and want him to fail. Change is realizing that the Black Family Unit is so imperative in a child’s life..realizing that our families have been torn apart from jump. Change is not being selfish and is definitely not settling for less than we deserve. Change is listening to Nas’s new cd and seeing why so many were uncomfortable with the title he chose in the first place. He puts things on blast and some of us are not ready to step out of our comfort zone and deal with that.

I see so many of our young brothers and sisters in my neighborhood, wrapped up into being a Blood or a Crip. They don’t know how it began or why, they’re just following along trying to be accepted into something they don’t fully understand. They don’t know who Tookie Williams was and how his death was celebrated by so many just like when a slave was hung or dragged to death. These teens are somewhat fearless and have no heart whatsoever. They have no manners or scruples. Catching a case or a body is the in thing to do nowadays. Where are the parents, the grandparents, somebody who gives a damn and can yoke these kids up and say don’t even think about it, get your head into those books and be somebody one day! I will tell you one thing though, they’re are not the real gangstas they think they are, place them in L.A. or even parts of Philly, where my father was from and they would be shell shocked.

We have a long way to go…

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People do not know that our ancestors were lied to continuously. If a man and a woman wanted to get married, the slave master would tell them to jump over a broom together and they would be married. Hence the term “jumping the broom”.

Many of us do not know that they were given leftover table scraps of food, like a dog, to eat. Or about the meager food they were given and us being the original people we are, made meals out of that. If we only knew how high in salt and unhealthy pork is and how it was used as part of our torture, we would steer clear of it. After slaves were whipped, pork brine was put on their backs to increase the pain factor.

I could go on and on…

I can’t speak for all light skinned blacks, only me. My light skin has gotten me know where, fast. If the truth be told, I have received nothing but ill-contempt as the result of my light skin (reversed discrimination, within the race)! I have not been treated in a favorable light, being light skinned and black.

It has been my personal experience that some, not all; Black people (light and dark) make false assumptions about me. They form preconceived notions about me, before giving me the opportunity to let my true-self be known! I am 42 years old and all of my life I been lied on, talked about, and treat like an outsider—and I’m not all that light!

I try to look beyond the surface, and dig deeper into the root cause of the matter in an attempt to figure out what makes people do what they do. I have learned to overlook a lot of ill-treatment; due in part to what has been deeply embedded in our people (Willie Lych, The Making of A Slave) minds. For the most part, we don’t know any better. Self-Hate has been systematically ingrained in our people, past down through the generations.

Simply put, we are being controlled by remote control. We need to stop allowing Willie Lych to control our minds. Most of us have never read The Making of A Slave by Mr. Lych, yet we follow the principles in that book to the T. The Self-Hate that has been ingrained in our minds is kept alive through our fears and insecurities!

When will this mischief, madness, and mayhem end among our people? When will we learn to love one another; and to accept the diversity among our people and appreciate one another for who we are?

Now is the time, we need to put all this foolishness to rest. We need to stop the black on black hate. It will benefit us all to keep an open mind; allow time to get to know someone before condemning them to light skin/dark skin Hell.

I admit it, I’m idealistic, and I know that equality among our people may never be a reality in this day and age, but we got to start somewhere.