Tuesday, July 28, 2015

A Letter To Those I Love BY: KB 7.28.15

I’ve mentally wrestled with myself about voicing this opinion but the deafening silence on the internet tells me that it needs to be spoken.

This is an open challenge to family and friends….stay with me on this thought….
The media told us that Charles Manson was a whack job because of his Helter Skelter race war theories….but here we are living them out…has the media addressed it? Yes, in a culturally biased “objective” journalistic way that still tends to blame the victims. We’ll analyze the hell out of things and then leave it alone until the next “best” tragedy occurs. When is enough ENOUGH?!!!!

To my family….some of you guys remain silent, you’ll share picture of family and outings, hell you’ll share pictures of your food to the enth degree…..but won’t share an opinion to save your life….and it just may.  Our family is a huge melting pot of races and cultures yet, we are ALL people of color….and I know for a fact that we are clannish, meaning if something happens to one of us you better be prepared to deal with us all…. So, what I’m saying is that we should apply that same love to all our brothers and sisters but what’s happening in our society could very well happen to one of us.
Now, we all have varying degrees of melanin (keeping it real) and some of us have been acculturated differently but we have the same blood surging through our veins…..yet some of you remain silent and sheltered. When is enough ENOUGH?!!!!

To the people who call me friend….why are you quiet? Friendship means more than saying I have a friend of color….If you count me as a friend and you see something having a profound impact on my mind, body and spirit….I expect you to step up and speak up. You guys may never ever understand what it means to be Black, gay and female in this country but all of you know and have felt oppression and injustice at some point in time…


Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously said "no one is free until we are all free." This idea, profound in its simplicity, finds company among famous aphorisms in the Jewish textual tradition—the biblical command to "love your neighbor as yourself," and Hillel the Elder's famous principle, "that which is hateful to you do not do to your neighbors.”

How ya livin'?

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