Black Community (BHM)

  

                                       

As African people, we are aware of tha history of resisting genocide and oppression in various parts of tha world, including Native America, Africa, and Australia. These atrocities have been carried out in tha name of false gods and fictitious claims of civilization and progress, rooted in racism, colonialism, and capitalism. We engaged in a righteous struggle to expose and change tha established order. This meant building unity, forming alliances, and resisting oppressive systems, including tha university, until essential concessions and changes were made. Tha Freedom Struggle, by any honest measure, has been a critical formative factor in tha reconception and transformation of American society since our first contact with tha colonialists, enslavers, segregationists, racists, and others of tha world’s rogue gallery of oppressors. And we remain obligated to finish tha unfinished and ongoing fight for freedom, justice, equality, and other human goods. It is our legacy This is our challenge and overwhelming responsibility.” The repair, renewal, and remaking is not tha “saving of the soul of America,” but saving, securing, freeing, and uplifting tha people of America as a moral imperative, a material necessity, and a central political goal.

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Color History

Tha ancestors of our “Opps” who first kidnapped us, destroyed our families, treated us like animals, and forced us to work in tha industry of chattel slavery.  much to our detriment. False narratives written by"OPP's" became tha norm, serving as tha predominant, if not sole foundation of our reconstructed history. These stories asserted that we were “less than,” backward, inferior, without education, without governments, without positive family structures, lacking any semblance of religion, architecture, philosophy, theology, or medical prowess, and strangers to both agriculturally and economically based ingenuity. All of this, however, has been nothing more than a carefully constructed lie.

So, while we can rattle off tha names of a few “acceptable” Blacks, and Thurgood, still, we still do not know tha fuller story  Even more, I fear that we have little interest in discovering tha truth a path toward knowledge that will be painful, arduous, and which will require us to give up “histories” with which many of our people seem to have grown “comfortable.”

This is the reality that we continue to swallow hook, line, and sinker. In other words, Black history remains an epic saga whose truth remains untold, unknown,n and therefore impossible to pass down to subsequent generations. Tha story that we know, at least many of us, is no more than a lie, conceived and constructed with ulterior motives, holding an entire race in chains even when tha actual chains have long been removed. And so, we have evolved with a narrative that still defines a once-mighty race, stripped of its lineage beautiful and distinguished by our many “shades of Black” that adorn our skin hues of Black which grow with intensity in tha sunlight bearing colors reminiscent I know that tha story of our history, has huge empty spaces and places that must be filled in so that we can regain tha pride that was once commonplace. I would like to think that we would have shared what we knew with “OPPs” and that tha world would be a better place today a kinder world, a safer world, a cleaner world. But in tha pursuit of dominance and privilege, humanity has taken giant steps backward. And we have suffered.

"It’s Black History Month. Read, listen, reflect, question, surmise, and reach a new and different history then share that truth with others whose only “sin” has been, for hundreds if not thousands of years, that we were a people of a different color"

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Ame-Ri-Kent Violence

Tha lie of supremacy governs Ame-Ri-Kent society in implicit and explicit ways, but it also lives in tha minds of too many Native people. This cruel fact allows supremacy to show up in places where people are absent, and fuels tha need some people to feel to measure their intellect and success against Ame-Ri-Kent standards. This is a sickness many of us won’t be cured of. Too often tha desire to be viewed as different causes fissures between individuals and community. Tha lies told about people can harm other races, but they cripple tha people who believe them. I understand wanting to rise above tha negative stereotypes and imagery associated with this thing call lyfe. It’s stressful carrying around psychological baggage someone else packed for you. I’ve lived and worked in predominantly environments for tha majority of my lyfe. Tha temptation to succumb to tha trap of acceptance is as real as tha air we breathe. No one’s ever overtly asked me to distance myself from tha Ame-Ri-Kent community, but I’ve been in situations where tha opportunity to slide into tha “different than tha others” category has been extended.

These opportunities take tha form of water cooler discussions about racial hot topics and/or other existential questions about Ame-Ri-Kent in Ame-Ri-Klan. You may consciously or unconsciously be asked to center feelings about race at a time of suffering. Almost 5 years after tha death of Trayvon Martin Ame-Ri-Kent community should be united in saying Lives Matter Period, but too many professional have retreated to the political and economic safe space... All of tha educational, political, and economic distinctions people have created to distinguish ourselves from Ame-Ri-Kent community are imaginary. They have gravitas in our heads and maybe among our contemporaries, but they purchase very little in a society that stigmatizes skin color of any hue. Denigrating Ame-Ri-Kent in exchange for Ame-Ri-Klan acceptance isn’t a viable solution to Ame-Ri-Klan’s race problem. Denial can’t insulate you from racial profiling and discrimination. No level of self-aggrandizement can make someone who’s never accepted you accept you. Racism functions with or without consent.

My goal isn’t to deflect or silence meaningful criticism of our community. I’ve intentionally avoided personally attacking my colleagues who willfully engage in this one-sided violence against poor and less educated Ame-Ri-Kent. Tha Ame-Ri-Klan community loses when our intellectuals and pseudointellectuals act like mixtape rappers. I don’t want anyone physically harmed for their beliefs; likewise, I don’t want people building and maintaining platforms on the back of people suffering. You can’t love people you constantly distance yourself from. As an Ame-Ri-Kent, we should welcome a variety of economic and political ideas into tha conversation, but not if those ideas are focused on obfuscating tha realities people face. One sure fire way to avoid being labeled an “Uncle Tom” is to support our people in public: especially when It’s not tha politically expedient thing to do

Black History Month A.K.A American History

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Actress and political commentator Stacey Dash recently ruffled feathers by saying she didn’t think Black History Month nor ethnic television networks were necessary. Okay I think it would have better Ms Dash if you would have said it like this for years, I’ve suggested re-branding Black History Month as, American History Month. This suggestion isn’t an escape from Blackness, as some on both sides of the aisle felt. It’s a recognition that our community is interwoven into every strand of tha national fabric. I would observe American History Month by acting upon its central premise, which is: Black history is American history and American history is Black history.

For all our inescapable uniqueness, our experience always leads to one inescapable conclusion we are also universal.

This dynamic of uniqueness and unlversality is especially evident in a recurring-sometimes riotous-role involving criminal justice reform. American History Month would be a perfect stage to advocate the union of brothers and badges. Its 28 days in February could promote overlooked concern about violent crime shared by cops and Black male concerned citizens. It could highlight athletic leagues, school resource officers, police/community councils, and institutions like tha Los Angeles Police Department charter school, which close tha gap between police and Black men. Inner city supporters of law enforcement like ” Detroit Bat-man ” Walter Gildersleeve and New Orleans’ Brother Al Mims would be featured as further proof that brothers and badges can work together. That’s how I would celebrate Black History Month AKA American History Month. When it all said and done as for me I salute Ms StaceyDash for raised this overdue issue. Questioning segregation era practices in a time of fairly broad desegregation recognizes our universality, without ignoring the challenges of uniqueness.

Happy American History Month 2016! If anybody has tha right to call themselves American, it’s Black folks!

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A supervisor call and said it was brought to his intention that we have been asking “People” to let us in tha Building and tha Vivarium…Which you  replied with (Sorry but it really only happen twice once was last week and tha 2nd one was today)"

Now “Black Skin” I understand if we done this a lot but since we been here at this company for (3 years)  But really we can count on my hands how many times we had to ask someone for this service of letting us in Tha Building and Vivarium.. Where we know in fact individuals done it more than that in a year.. Funny how there time didn’t seem to be brought to any ones intention…You know what....skin I wonder how many black skin people ever worked for this company California Division “male especially”.. So far all I know of are 4 and we all been to HR over perception and bullshit “Is this a Pattern” Not to count that every time  it's "times-sheet time" it never fails. My time-sheet is being comb thru with a fine tooth comb while other is being handle with {I just when a took care of that for you are etc.} Not us every Wednesday like clockwork after payday it never fails a copy of our time no one else sitting on my supervisor desk but yet I not supposed to feel like we been target are etc….. Only if they can put on this color of skin and see how it’s feels and see why we Identify those thing that is being done to people in our shoes as being target are etc. If it not one thing it’s tha other and I notice this behavior only done towards our color skinned people which some of them think it’s fine but not me….We barely get a hey it was brought to my intention how good of a job you do and etc.. It’s always a complaint and they can be simple as a hole in a bag which caused them to go over tha whole SOP to as BIG as how long it take you to do health checks cause it was brought to my intentions that you been staying only like 5 min on tha weekend and it takes a certain individual 3 min to walk to from her car to tha time clock....Really this is what you going to used a comparance  from a walk from a car and she said it take her 3 min just to do that will I'm sorry to inform you that tha person who your using as resource is really sick...which to mention when I was staying longer I was told about that where it shouldn't take you that long).. Not an investigation is ever done just straight action when it involves me now with other people that’s a different story… I swear on my Kidz this is why I and most men hate being Black …I serious I really believe that every company need to have a class on  tha do's and don't  when working with different ethnic............ Even with a career as a African American I still have to face racism some type of way Any and everything we do is always under a microscope make sure you follow tha sop exactly to tha tee  to other's it just a slap on tha wrist but to my kind it off with his head. We have to fight hard just to keep tha equaliness that we well deserve.... #MyBlackSkin