Tuesday, August 4, 2015

This Land Is Your Land….This Land Is My Land by: KB 8.4.15

REAL TALK from KB: I saw a commercial this morning…some kids in the commercial were saying the pledge of allegiance. I flashed on my own child hood and thought to myself about how I was subtly brainwashed.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America; ok that part is not so bad.

And to the republic for which it stands….ok so now I’m starting to waiver… A republic (from Latin: res publica) is a form of government or country in which power resides in elected individuals representing the citizen body and government leaders exercise power according to the rule of law. Seriously, who represents me when everyone seems to out for self or lobbying and catering to special interest groups? Why are Blacks hated and vilified all over the U.S? …and you would think that such an elite group of powerful minds would come up with another word besides “nigger” after all they had since 1865 to come up with something.

One nation under God…ok, now I’m not even going to stand around and participate in such blasphemy…Sunday morning between 10 and 11 are the most segregated hours in America. I once heard of a Pastor saying that your church should look like a busy day in a supermarket….but that is NOT the case. I moved from segregated NY to ultra-segregated, ultra-conservative Central Valley Calif………I grew strong and bold hearing the N word….nigger is the steel in my spine, the fire in my eye and need be the power behind my fists!

Indivisible -  I refuse to drink this Kool Aid…..we are a people divided and we, every last one of us are wrapped in cause. Blacks want equality and white won’t acknowledge and release their privilege as if a balance would somehow be the end of the world…..keep it real it would be the end of their world…no matter how “enlightened” or well-meaning you may be…until you are willing to release what you KNOW you have there will be some level of dissent.

With liberty and justice for all………..ok, really?!!! Now this just got down right comical….Back in the day Black people were lynched just for being Black with priors of being Black. Now, since there’s justice for all we’re being “lynched” for fitting the profile, walking while black, driving while black and routine traffic stops….
I guess I’m now supposed to sing and do a full on minstrel show to My Country tis of thee?

We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only."  We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. - MLK


How ya livin’ ? 

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