When We Gone Get Something?

This one goes out to ALL my black brothers and sisters. I usually try to focus solely on issues that are common to most people. That’s what I try to do. On some level I guess I hope that one day we will still achieve that thing called unity. (singing Kum Ba Yah). And then something happens like what happened to Trayvon Martin. That boy was murdered plain and simple. And the police department is in on it. You may not agree, but don’t put your money up.

Finally after almost a month of a nothing investigation, the Department of Justice is going down to Florida to make sense of it all. There is none. Only murder and corruption. No sense. I, like everyone else, have seen the internet petitions and the outrage of cable T.V. personalities. I signed the petition and posted it to my wall on FB, and I have been following the story as best I can. As of right now all I can say is it’s a shame and a disgrace.

Not just because that poor innocent child was murdered, but because we as black people have no response for anything. And that is just as shameful and disgraceful. People used to do things to us before and during the civil rights era but at least then they already knew a response was coming. It might have been in the form of the nonviolent gathering of King and his followers, or Malcolm and the NOI, or even the Black Panther Party. I mean don’t get me wrong because Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are sure to show up with the Rainbow Coalition and we appreciate them…but seriously when we gone get something?

When is our response going to be just as feared and expected as it once was? Wait---We are so unorganized and confrontational with each other that retribution for crimes against fellow members of our race only comes from the family and close friends. There is no black response. Where is our leader who will call us to action when the time comes? And why is it that just because we don’t have a King or X we just can’t get it together? We have better technology than before. We have more wealth than ever before. We have better education than ever before. We have better access to world happenings than ever before.

And we have less heart, less fight, less love, less compassion, less sense, and less meaningful culture than ever before. We finally have a black president and I am more likely to see some supposed brother (West and Smiley for starters) on television giving him hell and high water than I am to see a brother giving a full throated endorsement. Even if you don’t agree with him, is it too much to ask for respect in the accomplishment? Yep. It’s always a few of us hating trying to show off for people who would just as soon take your life because you have skittles and iced tea. We don’t even respect each other. We don’t even respect ourselves. Why would somebody from another race be scared to do anything to us? Even our Mexican brothers and sisters have been known to call up the fam from south of the border to handle stuff. Who do we call? Who responds to the calls of our hurt, wounded, or killed brothers and sisters?

They know we are not coming.

When we gone get something?—_grammar

                                                                                                -----TTAII