Do You Remember The Titans?

Watch Who You Callin’ Nigga’ Fool, If You Aint Careful, That’s All You Eva’ Gon’ Be!

READ THIS FIRST
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/17/nagin.city/index.html


“A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.”
~Saul Alinsky

“One day our descendants will think it’s incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”
~Franklin Thomas


Can you believe it? Can you possibly believe that it has been 140 years since Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and our country still has these issues and I am bloggin about them? It is understandable I guess. Nobody knows how long it will take, if ever, to be completely washed away from the horrendous inhumanity that occurred prior to the emancipation proclamation. Well, washed away should never occur but, understanding and moving forward towards embracing our differences and utilizing them to prosper should. We ARE created equal. Ok, well maybe black men can naturally jump higher, but for the most part men are men…and women are women.
Socioeconomic as well as life experiences take a huge part of who we become both as individuals and as a collective community whether it is on a city block scale or a nation as a whole. But it baffles me still to think we are that different in our minds. We know racism is wrong, but yet we choose to stay ignorant. We choose to not understand. We choose to live the way we do and fight for everything that is not working for a better tomorrow. A great leader once said, "I am doing today what most won't, so that tomorrow I can have a life that most don't." If we were forced to live together and understand, we would overcome because we were forced to just like in the movie “Remember the Titans”.
It is not an easy thing to do. It seems that ever since Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, there has been a decline of monumental black leaders. There have been great speaking, intelligent black men working in this country to further themselves…but not as a black “movement”. They have all had their own agendas. Which can be looked at like, I did it, so can you…but that is not what leadership is. Realistically we know what our parents tell us…if you had parents, but who ever raised you even if you were in a foster home or orphanage, hopefully, somewhere along the way somebody said, “You can be whatever you want to be.” If not, know this, YOU can be whatever you want to be. So with that out of the way, back to the subject. You now know you can be whatever you want and there still aren’t any great black leaders with the followers that MLK or Malcolm had. So now a great movement that worked or was working and changed so much in the ignorant thinking of white America came to a crashing halt because of an assassination. That movement needs to find a heartbeat again because America is falling apart. We can not do this separately. We need all races and sexes combined to become Captain Planet.
Really though, there is a black movement going on in America and sadly it is seemingly trying to separate blacks from whites and totally destroy the very work by one of the greatest men to ever live. Racism is just ignorant. Separatism is just ignorant. You cant make it on your own and we cant make it on our own.
"I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality." My main man MLK. That is a great leader with a positive outlook. Al Sharpton's outlook..."If black people are unemployed it's lazy, if white people are unemployed it's a depression." This is the “black leaders” outlook of today and I am sorry that they exist.
Oh and by the way Mayor Nagin, I mean Ray, you can’t apologize for me not taking the words you said the way you "meant" them. That is not an apology. Way to go American “leader”. I wonder what would have happened if I was mayor and said something of the same with white insinuations. I don't think that would fly too well. Don't feed on separation. Let's work together.