So Many Questions
Why is it so difficult for us to stick together? How come we judge us the harshest? I've wondered these questions since I first heard of Black slave owners and warring tribes in Africa selling each other out to be shipped and sold and made into slaves.
It's our biggest sin. It's what has been our demise and what will continue to be our greatest shame if we let it.
This Jussie Smollet case has really shone a light on what ails us. Folk came out and chastised this man from the beginning, not believing him when he said he was attacked? Taking the word of the Chicago police department because they put a Black man on the podium and verbally charge him as a criminal? The same department that covered up the case of Laquan McDonald just a few years ago. Now we suddenly TRUST the police?
Hmmm.
He wanted more money from his show? Really? His family had a show in the 90s, he's been in numerous films, had released a book with his family and an album and had just got off tour...this don't seem like a man desperate for money! Desperate enough to shame his Mama, his siblings and his beloved community? It has just never quite added up.
But even if he did lie, which I'm still not sold on, how come WE couldn't rock with him? What would it hurt us to be united in support of each other always? The world is a cold cruel place, especially for us. We should not perpetuate the hate among ourselves.
It's like that line from Soul Food, "One finger pointing the blame don't make no impact, but when you ball up all those fingers into a fist you can strike a mighty blow. Now this family has got to be that fist."
We should always strive to be that fist.
It's our biggest sin. It's what has been our demise and what will continue to be our greatest shame if we let it.
This Jussie Smollet case has really shone a light on what ails us. Folk came out and chastised this man from the beginning, not believing him when he said he was attacked? Taking the word of the Chicago police department because they put a Black man on the podium and verbally charge him as a criminal? The same department that covered up the case of Laquan McDonald just a few years ago. Now we suddenly TRUST the police?
Hmmm.
He wanted more money from his show? Really? His family had a show in the 90s, he's been in numerous films, had released a book with his family and an album and had just got off tour...this don't seem like a man desperate for money! Desperate enough to shame his Mama, his siblings and his beloved community? It has just never quite added up.
But even if he did lie, which I'm still not sold on, how come WE couldn't rock with him? What would it hurt us to be united in support of each other always? The world is a cold cruel place, especially for us. We should not perpetuate the hate among ourselves.
It's like that line from Soul Food, "One finger pointing the blame don't make no impact, but when you ball up all those fingers into a fist you can strike a mighty blow. Now this family has got to be that fist."
We should always strive to be that fist.
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