racism

To you, she may look like a WELFARE MOTHER, too young, with too many kids and living off the system. But to us, she looks like a YOUNG BLACK WOMAN shielding the ones she loves and who love her back. Her babies have already been born with two strikes against them, just because they were born BLACK and POOR. How are they going to make it, when there is a dark cloud of racism already hovering above them, waiting for them to make one false move before they chain gang them on that infamous prison pipeline? Whether we call it “Systemic Inequity” or “Systemic Inequality,” it’s all been going on for far too long. Did you know there is a difference between the two? Inequity means injustice or unfairness, while inequality doesn’t necessarily imply an injustice, simply an imbalance. They’ve been finding a way to hold us back, even more so after releasing us from the chains of slavery. Every move we make that’s on the “up,” they TRY to find a way to knock us back down. From the historical poll taxes that disenfranchised African American voters; to poor treatment of Black soldiers who returned home after fighting in World War I and World War II, Jim Crow and segregation in schools, Blacks have had to fight every step of the way. And today, they are killing us in plain sight, for the world to see. Dead or in jail is where they want us. But where do you see yourselves? Think about it. So let’s just get rid of all the fancy words — inequity, inequality, disparities, etc. and just call it what it is. FLAT OUT RACISM!!! Like the popular saying goes today, it is what it is… so what are you going to do about it? NOTHING — UNLESS YOU EDUCATE YOURSELF ON WHAT’S SPELLED OUT IN BLACK AND WHITE FOR YOU. My brothers and sisters, a target has been on your back since the day you fought your way out of your mother’s womb. And just like you instinctively did then, you must instinctively fight