Lioness Daiba Sala AmenRa
9/11, GET OVER IT!!!
Sounds heartless and cruel, doesn't it??? Well, now you know how every American African and every African American feels when we are told to get over slavery. To get over the face that hundreds of millions of Blacks were stolen from their homeland and murdered, enslaved, terrorized, lynched, beaten, ripped from their families, children torn from the arms of their mothers and fathers due to hatred, and bigotry! Especially, since these acts of genocide of Blacks still continues today.
Just because Blacks no longer pick cotton, raise your children, cook your meals, build your homes and work for free does not mean their lives don't matter!! So, remember that next time we are told, "It's in the past, get over it!"
Peace be unto you.
My response was immediate. Without hesitation I wrote:
Lioness, 9/11 has always felt like a white problem to wrestle with and their grief. I have never felt a part of it chiefly because the pity, the pitiful tones from a people constantly justifying and boasting about their cruelties, their conquests made me bristle. It was out of place! All that pity and whining! It was annoying!
I have other well thought out thoughts, feelings and perception about this subject, but I stand with you on your assertion. It is true. The world should not, but does center and revolve around white people and survival in large part for people of color is dependent upon how 'we' make them feel!
Dig what I'm saying? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.13.16
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| Jim Crow days, Armed Willie Causey Junior holds a gun during a period of violence in Shady Grove, Alabama |
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