What Happened To Us? The Future of Black America

Black America, the fragment of America which is plagued with social oppression, unemployment rate and poverty. A history that is blanketed with racism, stereotypical views, and discrimination solely based on the color of our skin. Black America has come along way since the Civil Rights Movement, a movement in which fought for the rights of black Americans, and to secure a better future for their descendants, which are us. What happened to us? What happened to the love and respect and solidarity we shared with one another? What happened to the unity? What happened to us?

America was born with a huge birth defect, slavery. An everlasting curse on the souls of black America, slavery lasted for 100’s of generations. After going through whips, chains, shackles, rope, blood, sweat, and tears, the dream of a better tomorrow seemed to travel more and more into the sunset. The sun began to rise on those dreams when they were granted freedom from the hands of those who persecuted and cursed them with unimaginable pain and suffering. When freed from emotional bondage, terrorist groups such as the KKK started to wreck havoc on the lives of the freed blacks. This lasted for decades to come until they felt like enough was enough.

Suffering from racism and racial depression for to long, They decided it was time to challenge these daily struggles head on until they went away. Brave young women and men started to challenge segregation and discrimination by utilizing peaceful tactics such as marches, sit ins, boycotting public businesses and other things to try to overthrow Jim Crow. Young leaders started to utilize their voices to let everyone know this has been going on to long. With succeeding with the peaceful tactics, black America started to shortly fall apart in the hands of our ancestors.

What would Martin Luther King Jr say about Black America how much it declined in the last 50 years? What about those black teens who were brutally shoot by policemen and those mothers who couldn’t stop crying because their baby boys have been brutally murdered? When I look at our people today, one word comes to mind, WOW. All the videos degrading black women, the next generation of sistas thinking it’s okay to act like that. Our young black men wearing their pants below their waist thinking they look decent. Girls fighting each other like cats and dogs posting it on social media websites. Cursing, objectification, ignorance. The jail cells of America overflowing with black youth because they couldn’t put the drugs down or put the safety back on the gun. Gangs killing each other everyday because your being disrespectful to my neighborhood. Really? Think about how your mother feels disrespected when she doesn’t know where you are at 3 o’clock in the morning.

We are going to need to make some major changes to the way we think, dress, act, walk, run, the whole 9 yards. Black parents, make education the top priority in your child’s life. Don’t let your struggle become ours. Lets start to create our own jobs instead of thinking someone will hand us one. Let’s make the dreams of our ancestors an reality. Lets stop having children at an early age. Lets stop creating stereotypes about us that just seems to prove true. Lets reunite as one and challenge the unjust justice system of America. Lets put the church back as the backbone of our race. Lets treat the elders well, for one day we can learn something from them. I don’t want to see my people go into a deep hole in which we can not recover from. I want us to come together as one again. Lets fill the classrooms of colleges and universities, instead of Federal Prisons. This is not going to be a easy battle, for it has beaten us 50 years ago. In closing with the words of one of the most influential person I know, Malcolm X, “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Lets prepare for it, this very second, minute, hour, day, week, year, decade, lifetime and generation.