We Are More Than They Think We Are

WE ARE MORE THAN THEY THINK WE ARE!!!!

It was set in law that blacks were only 3/5th of an actual person. Sometimes I sit back and wonder do some of us still believe that.

I like to read articles from all spectrums, I like to see the way different races and ethnicitys perceive blacks as a collective whole. I've notice many racially biased articles and blogs have the tendency to use scientific racism. For ex. more blacks are incarcerated than in college, but if you use the traditional college age 18-25 you'll notice that is a lie. Also that all black mothers are welfare recipients, some writers use statistics to skew opinions, but fail to mention if welfare was completely cut off that more whites would suffer.

Many people fail to realize that stereotypes are just saturated strands of truths wrapped around ignorance. Even if society deems you as a second class citizen in a land that is supposedly for the free it should never deter your dreams, but serve as the gas to power them (I think Ye said something like that). We as black people should always keep in mind that we were kings before slaves, and our women were royalty before sex trophies, but I think since slavery was such a prominent tragedy in our history that we've failed to overcome it as a collective whole.

We've been given a glass ceiling of what we can achieve, ie. rappers, entertainers, drug dealers, athletes etc. Those careers are not attainable to the common person, except drug dealing, but giving someone little hope will just leave the common person comfortable in their situation. Even though our bodies were freed from slavery, our minds have stayed in those fields and in the big house.

Some of us have allowed institutionalized racism to put us in a state of economical mediocre obedience. Like many slaves 400 years ago that were afraid to escape to freedom, many of us are afraid to take risk that could take us to progressive lives. Instead some of us choose to become comfortable in regressive lives or, in a state of consistent struggle. We must keep in mind that we don't have to follow what our peers refuse to be, or what the people before us wouldn't be, instead we must focus on what we dream to be and work hard to make sure that is what we are.

I have the belief and faith that today, or tomorrow, but one day we will be respected, I'm not saying have racial prominence over the world, but looked at as equals to the world. We are more than what some expect us as a collective to be, but we will be what Martin, Malcolm, and black nationalist knows we are destined to be. We should always remember that their is plenty room at the top, its the bottom that's crowded.

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We Must Do Better

1. We need to channel that same aggression we get when we feel we are getting oppressed by the white hierarchy to black on black crimes that affect our community. If we can't unite together how can we begin to fight for equality against other races.

2. Ladies need to trying to give relationship advice and motivational FB stats/tweets when they are half naked in their picture.

3. We need to support our black businesses in the community, not just the barber shop, beauty salon, and weedman.

4. We need to invest more energy in our children's education than their dress. If you're going to post a picture of how "fresh" they are please post a picture of the child's report card.

5. Ladies fishnet attire is not an outfit. It just makes you look like a hoe who wasn't hugged as a child.

6. "Stop trying to find relationships in places where ass grabbing is taken place" Ms. Parker

7. We need to stopping have children if it is difficult or we can barely afford to take care of the first. Children don't deserve to suffer if its preventable.

8. "We need to encourage our men to be Kings not niggers, and our girls to be queens rather than bad bitches" nova giovanni

9. We need to be teaching our young children math and science like they do in China, not Waka Flocka lyrics.

10. We as males need to stop leaving self sufficient woman that know what they want in life for arm candy, arm candy is only around when times are sweet.

11. Stop getting engaged to people AFTER they go to jail.

12. We need to stop idolizing rappers just because we like a song of theirs. What do you really know about them besides what they tell you.

13. We need to stop putting ALL our money in items that will depreciate. Put some away for a rainy day.

14. We need to learn the difference between "being a hood nigga and a nigga from the hood"

15. We need to surround ourselves with people that allow us to live up to our potential. Not those who want us to live down to their expectations.

Thank you for reading, feedback and opinions are always acceptable

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