Over the past week about six children were killed and two injured due to violence in the black community her in Memphis, TN. It is amazing that I am even saying community, because we don't even have a community. Now I know many of you may be shocked as you read this, but allow me to define community for you so that WE can get a clear understanding of what WE are missing out on. Community means a unified body of individuals. Black people are not unified, therefore we do not have a community. We are very concerned with how much paper we have in our pockets, how much ice we are rocking or if we have spinners on our ride. We are not concerned with educating our children and young people, or haning out with little Billy because his daddy is not around, or teaching our young ladies that being a HOE is not the way to get a man and keep him.
Whatever happened to 'It Takes a Village to Raise a Child'? We look at the average kid on the street and make a decision about that child right off the bat and WE also allow the news to implant negative images of OUR young people in OUR minds. The MEN in the hood, got babies all over the place and the WOMEN in our communities think it is cute to have 10 children by eight different men. Why? because no one showed them any different.
We do not have LOVE for OURSELVES.........we perpetuate negative images ourselves! Yes the white man began the enslavement of black people, but we have continued the bondage! If we don't change this, OUR children will become the prostitutes and drug dealers that are in our communitites. If we even stay in our communitites.
Most of us roll when we get a little taste of money......then we become 'TOO GOOD' for the hood, not realizing that there are others struggling to make it and instead of giving them a helping hand, we are trying to get a piece of the American Dream.
The government is not our Allie either. why is it that the Memphis City Council, the same people who cut the summer programs for the urban community, now trying to set up a curfew for our youth. Now I am not saying that the curfew is wrong, but they waited until children were killed before they decided to try to do something about the violence in the hood, but it has been there all along. Oh and lets not forget that most of the youth still have nothing to do.
One last thing, two days ago an 13 year old girl(from the binghampton area) got shot in the head by a 19 year old girl(from Orange Mound) after the two were fighting. The 19 year old left the scene and came back with her mother and shot the 13 year old. After fighting for her life the 13 year old died. The 19 year old and her mother have been charged with murder. Now, the media reported on this story and interviewed outraged parents who said they would never help their child commit a crime.......guess what the color of their skin was? White! Think about it.
Stay Blessed
One Love
Vicskeyas
Posted By: VICSKEYAS MOORE
Thursday, June 29th 2006 at 9:47AM
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