A Dream Deferred?

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How many times have you met someone who would only date someone of a certain skin color because of the way they are perceived? There are deep rooted inclinations towards skin color due to the systematic mental abuse stemming from slave days. But why, in 2008, are we still in a slave mentality. I am not dark skinned by far, but I am brown. I was told once or twice by color-struck men that I "would be fine if I was a yella bone". Instead of hearing that I was beautiful the way I am, I was reduced to someone else's idea of beauty. Not a day goes by in my reactions with friends male and female alike without me hearing how the opposite sex are trifling and liars. As I have stated in previous notes, not everyone is going to treat you right. It only takes one. We all know this, but that doesn't stop the verbal bashing, lying, and abuses we perform against one another. I see little poems or articles here and there about how black men love their black women and vice versa. And I am sure we all do. That love, I believe, is irreplaceable. It is the core of who we are. But do we cherish one another? Respect one another? Not even in a romantic sense. Women see a guy working a security guard job and automatically think he's a broke guy with nothing going for his life, never knowing he's working his way through med school trying to do better for his life. That preconditioned hate wont let them see past the exterior. People often see me out and about at the club and assume I promiscuously chase men with money and that partying is the end all and be all to my life, not realizing that the truth is far from that. Then the few that get to know me are shocked and intrigued when the find out I am a hardworking and loving single mother, avid reader with a voluminous vocabulary, great cook, and aspiring lawyer and politician. They let what they think they know, what they have seen before, what they have been conditioned to hate, fear, or envy.

Each year we celebrate Martin Luther King day. He talked about his dream of equality for races, that all races would come to love and respect one another. Back when he wrote that speech, African Americans were united like never before, standing proudly against injustice. So why now, in a time where Dr. King's dream is our reality, do we not love and respect ourselves? I know that many of my blogs are a cause for debate, and this wont be any different. Just take the time to read my words and heed my thoughts. Think about what is being written and then take it from there. Men versus women. Light-skinned versus dark skinned. Rich versus poor. Bourgeois versus hood. We all tend to label ourselves and let that classification become our personification. We let the adjectives that should describe us take over the noun that is us (whether it be person or idea truthfully). And that black man or woman on the other side of the spectrum... that person then becomes the target for our anger, prejudices, and insecurities. This fear of the unfamiliar has prompted similar reactions from every race, class, and society throughout history. It is indeed human nature. But the funny thing about it is, no other race in our country lets that innate fear tear its cultural fabric to shreds. We, on the other hand, do.

The people who are actually doing bad, heading down the wrong roads in life get no chances with other blacks. They are written off. Since when did our people become so self-righteous that we cannot help another when we see they are drowning in their own lives? We have got to do better. African Americans could not formerly say that they had much. What they did have was pride and unity. We don't have enough of that left over in our communities to make it. Society has reduced us to athletes, rappers, and video vixens. You know why? Because we let it happen. Somewhere along the line we stopped respecting ourselves so it stop being given to us. We have brought into and lived up to the lies about the greatness we can and can't accomplish. A black man is running for, with a great chance of winning, the presidency of The United States of America. Yet even those who do intend to vote for him question the competency of a black man in office. The self-hate lingers on. The generation before us went through so much toil, trouble and pain that the black family unit had become fractured somehow. So our generation has grown up with out fathers, without mothers who have enough time to be there like they want, or without the proper role models to show us the way. We let situational mistakes made by those before us become our downfall. We still have a long way to go to fix all of that. As a parent it is obvious to me, maybe not to others, that the way we are is going to and has already affected our children. Do you really want the next generation to have such warped and distorted views of their heritage and culture? It may be our cross to bear, but we can't keep doing it like this. Things have got to change.

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bballgrl200 added this comment 2008-11-05 08:11:50-06:00

wow this is so true. I'm so glad that Obama became president and showed that he love's his wife and that they where together for 16 year's. from, ~little black girl~

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