The Melting Pot is Boiling Over

I just finished reading a post by a journalist named Wendy C. Thomas on All Digitocracy. I ain't mad at her. She did an excellent job of expressing how she feels as a black person, a black woman and a black woman in America. But what really made my ass want to sing a solo was a comment by someone posting as Jen that 90% of black people kill black people and that's what we should be concerned with.

Now, I don't go around badgering people in print because of their opinions, but this person said she was stating facts. From whom?! Is what I'd like to know.

But the post from the journalist, then the comment from Jen, all makes me wonder: was the movement for civil rights toward the right direction?

The part in Thomas's post about "hunted in their own country" disturbs me because this is not "our own country," no matter how free we "think" we are. It's theirs. And they've never wanted us here. Period. Separate but equal somehow seems a better balance to me. For us.

If separate but equal were the case, we would have been forced to have more black professionals (i.e., doctors, lawyers, judges, police offers, educators, inventors, scientists, researchers, leaders, politicians, lawmakers, etc.) and not depend on our counterparts to fill those roles both as leaders and motivators.

To that end, maybe, just maybe, black girls and women would appreciate the roundness of our asses and thighs, the fullness of our noses and lips, the kinkiness of our hair and the rhythmic sway of our hips, instead of spending so much, financially and emotionally, trying to emulate who we are not.

Maybe so much of our history wouldn't be lost or watered down, and our black children would of course know about Martin, but would also of course know about Bayard Rustin. They would know about Malcolm, no doubt. But no doubt also know Benjamin Banneker. They would definitely know about Parks, but also definitely know about Claudette Colvin. The Waltons, Kennedys and Rockefellers would be important too. But so would Madam C.J. Walker, what an ankh is and the fact that the first Chinese people were black. Yale, Harvard and Stanford would be impressive, but, first of all knowing what an HBCU is, then knowing what it feels like to have their rich histories flowing through our veins would be inspiring!

Black school children everywhere would also know, proudly I might add, that most of the household items that our counterparts use and improve upon today, were invented by blacks who were intelligent enough to develop products based on need. Maybe this knowledge would prompt them to invest in our own education, communities and businesses, instead of doing what we do today--spend our dollars in "their" communities, businesses and schools.

And finally, maybe a blog poster named Jen wouldn't offer statistics that are smoke screens and mirrors based on facts from whites, by whites. She should know the undocumented cases are never spotlighted, usually because they were imposed by whites. #TheStateOfOurNation #SignOfTheTimes #TheMeltingPotIsBoilingOver

Post Script: If Jan was as astute in her observations of Wendy as a professional as she was in her "facts" about black on black crime, she'd have noticed that although Wendy is a journalist, All Digitocracy did note that, "This piece first appeared on Wendi’s blog and is republished here with permission from the author.