YOU OWE US!
BLACKVOICES
09-25-12
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." Martin Luther King - Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
This morning while doing my review of the news of the day I came across one of the most simple, yet provocative articles I have read in quite a while, "Ann Coulter: Democrats 'Dropping the Blacks and Moving on to the Hispanics'". While I am no advocate for the messenger Ms Coulter, and disagree with many of her core views inside the article there were statements brought to the national stage that for far too long have went ignored.
"I think what - the way liberals have treated blacks like children and many of their policies have been harmful to blacks, at least they got the beneficiary group right," Coulter said. "There is the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws. We don't owe the homeless. We don't owe feminists. We don't owe women who are desirous of having abortions, but that's - or - or gays who want to get married to one another. That's what civil rights has become for much of the left." When asked whether immigrant rights were not civil rights, Coulter responded, "No. I think civil rights are for blacks. What have we done to the immigrants? We owe black people something. We have a legacy of slavery. Immigrants haven't even been in this country." Ann Coulter on ABC Video
My background and experience has positioned me to oddly be able to see the need for this dialogue on the topic; in my eyes having it triggered by a stark conservative is only more of a statement of the need to have a full conversation on the presented issues with a honest view of history. While many have connected me with the destruction of the black community, those same detractors fail to have a historical grasp on this countries long cyclical history of slavery, convict leasing, chain gangs and now mass incarceration. My role as a kingpin was as much a stop-gap to poverty, as it was a seller of drugs. Mass poverty, unemployment and lack of legacy wealth created an environment of unmotivated black youth in the early 1980's. I see many similarities today. If left unresolved these similarities will heat from a slow simmer until they boil over as we are seeing in urban centers across the nation, such as Chicago. My gift and curse was an ability to motivate the unmotivated to put in effort and help them see a true economic result. In amassing my fortune what I came to know is people -- no matter their background -- must be made to feel that they have a purpose. For many blacks that are direct descendants of slaves, that purpose was stripped when their knowledge of family history or goals for family futures was purposefully disrupted in the interest of American expansion.
THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT US
They never have and never will.
There is no kind of excuse that
can be surrender for what you have done to your race, none at all. There is nothing that you have gone through
or felt that someone before you or right along in the same boat hasn’t experienced. You and a many others help create this
environment that we as the other half of blacks have to try and live in. Then say, “While many have connected me with the destruction of the black
community, those same detractors fail to have a historical grasp on this
countries long cyclical history of slavery, convict leasing, chain gangs and
now mass incarceration. My roll as a
kingpin was as much as a stop-gap to poverty, as it was a seller of drugs. Mass poverty, unemployment and lack of legacy
wealth created an environment of unmotivated black youth in the early 1980’s. I see many similarities today.” What you are looking at is the results of
yours and those that chose to follow your path to making a fast buck off the
ignorance of your bother and sisters.
Spawn from a generation who fathers are locked up or dead from either
using or selling the white man’s product.
Charleston Heston said, “The way to destroy your enemies is to sit back
and let them destroy themselves, and that’s what they have been doing. Now you want to try and blame it on poverty,
environment, unemployment to not having a rich relative leaving behind their
wealth too slavery, which we are still today in one way are another. I talk to God all the time and he’s my closet
friend and every time when something goes wrong in my life I point my finger at
him, and he has always pointed right back at me. I find myself laughing and being up-set at
the same time because I know he is always right, because like DMX said, “ONLY I
CAN STOP THE RAIN,” it all comes down to me because it’s started with me, when
I took the time to really think about it.
These are the things that we bring on ourselves and then look for someone
else to get us out of. You wasted the
better part of your life in and out of prison too having to watch your back. So now that you are out I pray that you take
this last chance to make a positive difference and give something back that you
took from the next generation to come, a chance to raise with a helping hand to lift
someone up instead of pulling them down.
It is always better to be loved for doing something than being hated for
doing nothing. For THINKING OUT LOUD, I’m
E. L. PLEASANT
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