The Terror Within BY: KB 11 9 15

As Veteran's Day approaches...I want to share some of my thoughts about the military My family is chocked full of service men and women from West Point to Commissioned Officers. My father was a 20 year man....although most of what he told me about his service was lies...I know that the majority of the family stood tall and served proudly. I was even pursued and recruited for service just prior to graduating from high school...up until the point where I told my father there was no way in hell that I was going to don any uniform of service. I cited the same principles that ALI told our draft board.

Needless to say my father was as mad as hell....but I also had to remind him of the fact that I 

remember every last picture and newsreel from Vietnam. I had to remind him of the heroin that had come from the jungles that blighted our neighborhoods. I had to remind him of the fact that a teenage boy, our neighbor, had used that very drug to commit suicide in order to avoid the draft. I salute and honor all who wear the uniform and who proudly serve....I respect that and the bravery it took to step onto foreign soil to serve. 

My fight is here!!! I rage war and rail against a system that creates the electric fence that holds just enough charge to stun....don't think I haven't notice that the voltage has changed. I fight against a system that forced feed a diet of death and tries to convince me I'm at a banquet. I fight against a system that consistently tells me to wave a flag when someone else gets to dictate what rights and protection I will have under the empty banner. My battle is with the domestic enemy.

Rude IS A POOR SUBSTITUTE FOR KNOWLEDGE AND POWER By: KB 11.2.15

I have a very definitive sense of right and wrong. If I’m wrong I can admit it, make amends and move on… What I don’t suffer and will not tolerate under NO circumstances is ignorance and rudeness being disguised as power. I cannot and I will not suffer fools and it’s not my job to see to it that you obtain knowledge. I can only share what I know and it’s up to the individual to accept or reject it.

Let me just say I now know how both my mom and grandma felt when they offered their wisdom and it was promptly rejected as old-fashioned or nonsense. I now understand why old folks used to say “children should be seen and not heard.” Most times, It wasn’t said in the context of disrespect or silencing a child’s voice it was spoken more so in the context of and intervention because the older person had lived through the experience.

With the onslaught of social media kids believe that can say and do what they want without impunity. They believe that they are making valid and informed decisions based on something that they’ve read on the net……..REALLY?!!! An incredible amount of misinformation and biased reporting is generated en masse and then disseminated to the internet populous to do what they do with it. We quote shaky sources like busy dung beetles.

Don’t get angry with me because I tell you that I don’t give a damn about Cookie or Luscious Lyon…they are tv characters!  Turn off the tv and turn off the stereotypes and read a damn book …learn about you! Don’t get angry with me when I point out and call out institutionalized racism. The people who don’t “see color” are silent accomplices in their own oppression; the people who see it yet remain silent are also responsible for the offense.

Stop the madness……..stop perpetuating stereotypes….embrace your potential and walk in your calling!!!

Now, let me repeat this yet again….my pro-Black is not anti-white….I want people to detach from all the self-loathing and toxicity that has been taught and heaped upon them about their Black heritage. Divorce your miseducation and teach someone the truth. Break free from your mental colonization...

How ya livin'?