Shades of Blackness

This piece is quite unfinished, but so is the story of the black race in America. As our story continues to shift and develop I'm sure this piece will too. It's untitled and probably won't EVER be done, I'll probably die not having finished it.

Untitled

I am apart of a nation within a nation

A nation of people united in division

A nation bonded by slavery

A nation struggling to grow.

My nation is misunderstood and stereotyped.

My nation screams and thrashes unnoticed.

My nation is diverse an ever changing.

This nation is grand and wide-spread.

And though fragmented is strong.

This nation contains the backs on which a great nation was built.

But knows nothing of it's past and it's future is unclear.

Hymnals and Folk songs gives voice to it's foundations.

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Sometimes I wonder if the reason we as black people are so divided as a race is because we are so diverse physically. It amazes me when people say we all look alike when our race has the most (NATURAL) variety. Our skin ranges from the palest ivory to the deepest coal and even those shades can be broken down further more with undertones of reds, yellows, and olives. Our eyes can be the lightest blues, grays, and greens or the deepest ebonies. Let's not even get started on our hair: from straight and frizzy to smooth and curly all the way to kinky and coil-y. All of these differences plus all the different nose, eye, mouth, and facial shapes make up for a very diverse race and that's before you throw in all the ways people can differentiate themselves from each other (perms, hair color, piercing, clothing, contacts and etc).

I think it's so hard for us to get past these differences that we can't see the bigger picture. It's been instilled within our race to hate each other for what we look like. Light skinned people look down on dark skinned people, no one likes the girl with the "good hair," everyone has to make fun of the "dark as tar" man. If we could see that no matter what the color of their skin or eyes or even what their hair texture is that we are all brothers and sisters then maybe we could be more united like our other minority counter parts (whose races have much much much less variety)

Live Laugh Love y'all

BLACK POWER (hehehe)

Hopeless Devotion

If love requires anything it requires devotion. Devotion to love is what makes love last, it's what allows love to inspire hope and hope to fuel dreams and dreams to start movements. It was Martin Luther King Jr's devotion to love that gave him the hope that things for his people could be better. This hope allowed him to dream and his dream lead to one of the biggest movements in American history. So why not be devoted to something especially love. Endless and unwaivering devotion can make anything happen be it good or bad. Hitler's hopeless devotion to his hatred of jews and all non-anglo saxons and minority group led to one of the largest genocides in history: The Holocaust. Devotion makes things happen.

Hopelessly Devoted

Hopelessly devoted.

Devoted to a dream whose frutation I might not ever see.

Devoted to a cause no one seems to care about but me.

Devoted to a world of fatasy

Hopelessly Devoted.

Hopeless siduations, no end or cure in sight.

Hopeless causes and no strength left to fight.

Hopeless days leading to desperate nights.

Hopelessly devoted

I'm hopelessly devoted to the thought of change.

Hopelessly devoted to the abloshment of pain.

My devotion to better is hopeless never waivering

Hopelessly devoted

Ummm yea that last "piece" was a bit rhymy for me but hey they all can't be winners right?? I tried, take it for the thoughts behind it.

Why Is Your Child So Bad???

Ok so it's been a while, actually months since I've posted a new blog but that doesn't mean I haven't been writing them. I write all the time actually I've just been way to busy to get them up here. So these next couple of blogs are random ones from the past couple of months.

Written 7/2009

Sometimes I think I hate children. Then I realize I don't hate all children, just bad children. I don't know what these parents are doing now-a-days but they need to get their ish together!! Most of the children I come in contact with are either stupid or bad as hades. I don't blame the kids, I blame their parents! I work at a summer camp instructing rising 4th graders and I have one child who's on the first grade level at best, two kids who learn EXTREMELY slowly but aren't stupid (book wise) and three who are on the level they should be on but are more spoiled then month old milk. Then there's one child in my class who is so smart but his mother fills his head with mindless junk and lets him watch R-rated movies, plus he just can't shut his mouth

Now I'm no parent but I do spend lots of time with children (I also work in the nursery at church and in the children's dept at a dept store) so I know a thing or two. SO here's what I have to say to all the parents and soon to be parents out there:

• First of all step up and be parents: Discipline your children, teach them respect for authority, TELL THEM NO!!!


• Make sure they get their education.


• Quit letting your children watch just anything on TV and listen to everything on the radio.


• Dress them like children, they are not little adults.


• Monitor their internet activity and who they hang around.


• Get them involved in positive activities.

At the end of the day it's your responsibility and job to raise a well-functioning member. Take it seriously!!