You DON’T Care
This is February, the year 2009. You ‘knew’ that didn’t you ? What does this month MEAN to YOU, that you’ve gotten all your “Dub-ya Toos” ? That you’ve only got one more quarter before the “Kids” get out for summer vacation ? (What’s their Gee-Pee-Ay ?) Yes I am writing this as an insult, because I started this blog for a reason, that of disbursing necessary information to a group of people that SORELY NEEDED IT, but are too lazy to read , then follow the instructions… OR are so wrapped up in the RUSE of having “MADE IT” with their city, state, or “GUB-MINT” “GAR-N-TEED” employments. Well, how’s that Ohio Jobs and Family Services CHECK filling in those blanks ?
I used to live in the BRONZEVILLE area of Columbus, Ohio, but have seen a better light shining in an area that most of “us Black Folk” would find scary, (as in possible cross burnings scary.), farm country: diesel trucks and NASCAR. The funny thing is that these folks know more about BLACK HISTORY MONTH than 80% of Bronzeville’s residents. Either from their anger at the holiday, [\"Tol-jah\".], or their genuine concern for the betterment of the world,[The British have been at this longer.], we have been sold a “BILL OF GOODS”by those that have made it a study of manipulating populations… and have done so through the “Americanized- African”, so readily willing to be led to the glitters of “non-assimilation”. We “think” that we’re keeping our societal differences. Where ARE our Nikki Giovanni’s, Gil Scott-Heron’s, Alberta Hunter’s, Dukes, Counts and Cabs. A Phyllis Wheatley ,Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou. An actor turned author: LeVar Burton- AFTERMATH, (Something to think about in today’s ENVIRONMENT.) Where is the James Baldwin, Æsops, poems by Tuskeegee’s Peregrines [Africa\'s transplanted Peregrines.].
The examples of why the HEARTS and SOULS of “WE, the PEOPLE of these United States”, (though not of a group of land masses, but states of EXISTENCES), of re-establishing a DIGNITY… for our children, and the nation they may never “leave” to call someplace else HOME…
I left BRONZEVILLE because as I walked to the corner store I saw only three men of African descent working to restore a place of ARTS and Dreams that was built by, and for, those who had no other place that would accept their patronages… out of several hundred that only saw the area as a place to TAKE a PAYCHECK from, to a neighborhood where the residents of Bronzeville wouldn’t be allowed such an income. But, as I walked each day, there was no one OF the neighborhood complaining, or applying for the PREVAILING WAGE “DUCKETS” fleeing the area. And NONE of the new “shop owners” saying their “TWO-CENTS” to the PORCHES OCCUPANTS… JUST like in the OLD DAYS… BUT you DON’T CARE.
Here’s a shot for you, can ANYONE, (that may actually read this post.), tell me 1.) IF there is actually an UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, and where it really is located ? 2.) AFTER getting to Dresden, Ontario, CANADA ? 3.) Where did most of the now FREE/ ex-slaves settle ?
BLACK HISTORY MONTH is not a CELEBRATION unless you’ve PARTICIPATED.
So, with only one or two “in readership” I believe that this may be my LAST attempt at sharing any thought of “worth”, the original thought was to give “an open parchment to any and all” who had “no other” avenue of expressing what they HAD to say. But, as most things available to the us, we won’t use them until we are not allowed.
We aren't often in on what our "MATTERS" are.
