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Boy from COMPTON made good.
Now I have to push the envelope and say this. Besides, silence is not always ‘golden’….it can sometimes be a rusty tin can that if you cut your finger on, catch an infection….you can die if it is not caught soon enough and treated before it spreads. With that backdrop, I keep hearing as it relates to African American progress and regress in the beautiful city of St. Francis: ‘You don’t understand Bob, this is San Francisco’….’these things take time’….’it’s a process for it to trickle down’…..’you or no one else can change this’….’this is just the way it’s always been here’…..’they just don’t want us here’….and you get the picture. But I am sorry, when I keep hearing this litany of explanations, from the grass roots to the conference room, it can’t help but sound like to me….’you don’t understand Bob, this is Texas or this is Alabama or this is Mississippi’ as it relates to the same issues confronting African Americans, but 60 or 70 years ago! I refuse to believe Dr. King and the civil rights movement would be silent nor do I think anyone could keep pouring water over an entire communities head and keep telling then it’s raining! Matter of fact, I truly believe if Dr. King had lived in this era, he may have even invented ‘social media’ as how as could over 1 million people gather on the same day at the same time 50 years ago without the internet, fax machines but with rotary phones and typewriters! Let alone a field office in San Francisco!
My point is this….there is a SF-NAACP meeting this Saturday at Third Baptist Church 3PM. I am hoping the room will be filled and doubly filled with those under 50 as well. It is time to get past the drama, the history, the ‘who shot John and why’ as those that are really ‘shooting’ each other literally and figuratively are us! Silence, silo’s and finger pointing is not only not golden it is backwards, stupid and I venture to say…light years behind the rest of Black America when it comes to confronting issues collectively with solutions as opposed to meeting and talking about them in parking lots all over the city. And to those that see me as the (as it has be stated)….’that outside agitator from Cleveland’…well I say respectfully…if not for a little ‘outside agitation’…the Jim Crow South may still be that…..the Jim Crow South! A house divided cannot stand which is probably half the problem as real power is not passed down or trickled down….it is taken. Be that as it may….it is time for the gloves to come off and leave the political correctness to the gatekeepers or keeper of the keys as I see children every day that can ill afford for this to go on another generation at the hands of adults. How is San Francisco an ‘international destination city’ if one group historically remains to be at the bottom of the ‘Blacklist – on the top of the page’ while other groups thrive and run circles around us in all indicators. (Somebody’s gonna catch that). I hope you don’t de-friend after this post – but we stand on the shoulders of giants and I do not know in our rich history any one of our hero’s or shero’s that would sit back while this goes down! Stay tuned and as I my parents would tell me….’we can show you a lot better than we can tell you’!
Happy, Happy Thursday!
My point is this….there is a SF-NAACP meeting this Saturday at Third Baptist Church 3PM. I am hoping the room will be filled and doubly filled with those under 50 as well. It is time to get past the drama, the history, the ‘who shot John and why’ as those that are really ‘shooting’ each other literally and figuratively are us! Silence, silo’s and finger pointing is not only not golden it is backwards, stupid and I venture to say…light years behind the rest of Black America when it comes to confronting issues collectively with solutions as opposed to meeting and talking about them in parking lots all over the city. And to those that see me as the (as it has be stated)….’that outside agitator from Cleveland’…well I say respectfully…if not for a little ‘outside agitation’…the Jim Crow South may still be that…..the Jim Crow South! A house divided cannot stand which is probably half the problem as real power is not passed down or trickled down….it is taken. Be that as it may….it is time for the gloves to come off and leave the political correctness to the gatekeepers or keeper of the keys as I see children every day that can ill afford for this to go on another generation at the hands of adults. How is San Francisco an ‘international destination city’ if one group historically remains to be at the bottom of the ‘Blacklist – on the top of the page’ while other groups thrive and run circles around us in all indicators. (Somebody’s gonna catch that). I hope you don’t de-friend after this post – but we stand on the shoulders of giants and I do not know in our rich history any one of our hero’s or shero’s that would sit back while this goes down! Stay tuned and as I my parents would tell me….’we can show you a lot better than we can tell you’!
Happy, Happy Thursday!
