THE WHEEL SPEAKS ON 2013 – From A Struggle To Video?
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THE WHEEL SPEAKS ON 2013 – From A Struggle To Video?
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It would totally astound you to hear what your child thinks and how he or she may think highly of in this society today. But truthfully there is a large percentage of adults who may have never even thought about asking that particular question at all. There are kids today that really have nothing to aspire to because they’ve been given absolutely no incentive and it can’t be blamed on school because many of the things I especially learned as a youth regarding my culture was self taught and going to school in the 60’s and 70’s many teachers had incentive to exclude what interest me and that was civil rights. Although they'll be given rave revues we'll be continuously fed movies meant to sedate our opinionated enthusiasm that of course all must be seen as a family on the weekends. Of recent The Butler and now 12 Years A Slave and of course the media will sell it and many of us will be sold over and over again and the numbers will constantly increase. The internet at times in particularly when I think personally about why (personally speaking) African Americans use it as a resource isn't being utilized to it's fullest capabilities. Years ago as a collective entity our people (African Americans) relied on communicating with one another on a grass roots level. Sunday speeches up and down Harlem every week where you can hear prominent individuals like Adam Clayton Powell Jr. or Malcolm X right on the sidewalks. We even listened to the radio way before FM was popular there were stations like brought you informative information about our rights. I remember attending both the Million March in 1995 and also the Day of Atonement in Manhattan personally and seeing images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. March On Washington. The one thing that should resonate within our collective though process as people of African American descent is being unified but shamefully it doesn't. Years ago our people had absolutely nothing in comparison to what we have in regards to the means of communication we have be it information technology at our fingertips and in our homes. But yet it's utilized mostly for entertainment purposes and to sadly keep our youth sedated or distracted and without attempting to offend anyone at all many are guilty. Privatized corporations will never encourage any of us simply to empower ourselves. And many of the frowns I receive from in particularly politicians I have been personally associated with is eventually because it is never my intent to see my people dancing to a conductors every command. This generation has absolutely no real leadership that is genuine. I am speaking in regards to someone who has absolutely no sponsorship or incentive from a major or private corporation. Every supposed leader today has some kind of show on CNN MSNBC or other cable or network affiliates whose sponsors at the end of the day what want? They want money and will feed us anything to get these dollars that will keep each and everyone of us debilitated and standing or sitting still particularly on the weekends.
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It’s time to have more productive weekends as a family unit like many of us remember. I especially have fond memories because every weekend whether we wanted to or not and I am pretty sure many can relate me and my brothers had no choice everybody went together as a family. And no matter sadly where I have live in the United States I find it almost shameful when I don’t see my own people exposing themselves to what everyone has the opportunity to enjoy. That cost absolutely nothing and that’s spending time together. People continue to look for answers through movies or through television programs and life classes, which is a great thing. But the answer is simple it’s time to get back to the grass roots of things which means packing everybody up and going together. I remember when my oldest two girls Baseemah and Basidy were young they were 12 and 10 years old I took them to see Spike Lee’s Malcolm X at the movie theatre in 1992 although I knew they probably didn’t want to see it. I wasn’t to popular at the beginning of the day but they enjoyed the movie and I am sure they still remember that day. We’ve turned into a generation of passive Liberals with our youth and lives reality will soon in some of these young lives be difficult to deal with. Because in this society if you’re under the impression that you’ll do what you want anytime you want it’s going to be a difficult life. It’s imperative that we develop the consciousness of children at a young age and not welcome these passive images that are continuously fed to them. Truthfully although many enjoy them video games are even passive the occupy in an almost trans like state the especially under developed adolescent mind and some parents attempt use it as a parental supplement. The only thing it does is to regulate the thought process making most that participate in the practice everyday either reclusive or with no ability to realistically deal with people in particularly the ones they can’t control with the press of a button. I am forever thankful for not only having had adults in my life who even when I didn’t want to always made sure that I stayed occupied not distracted and yes there’s a difference. Don’t always assume that just because a child is quiet that all is well and without even checking assume that they’re always engaged in productive things especially on the internet. Civil rights had a huge influence in the development and maturation as well my enlightenment as a person. It taught me respect and it also at a young age provided me with the mental fortitude that is necessary to deal with sometimes people you’ll be confronted with in your lifetime for sure when mommy and daddy aren’t there any longer. The truth is not many have your best interest at heart and many of our children aren’t being taught to rationally be able to distinguish who these individuals are like they’ll surely teach in other cultures. But we’ll surely watch these insanely none productive reality television shows for hours at a time without even taking the same 60 minutes to have a conversation with your child about what’s going on in their life everyday.
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I personally sad down every evening with my youngest two daughters Belise and Brittany everyday when they were kids in grammar school with no noise or television just talking about there day. Once when she was only about 5 years or so Belise told me about some man who’d daily come into her pre-‐k class room during nap time who had no business there. Unbeknownst to the man the next day I and my then wife showed up while he was right in the classroom he was the teachers boyfriend but had no business there at all and had been warned in the past not to enter the building. A baby that was only 5 years old had the presence to communicate something that was inappropriate. But before I totally fall off track I’ll finish with this it’s time to bring it back to family communication and you’d be surprise how even a family that sits and talks together often knows absolutely nothing about the everyday activity in the lives of each other especially the children. Many have in their own personal lives had to deal with something they’ve never shared with anyone when they were young. Opening the lines of communication means sometimes shutting down the lines that will mean absolutely nothing when all goes wrong because of neglect. There is a documentary that specifically address the struggle civil right from 1954 – 1985 called Eyes On The Prize http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/ It seems as if the further we’ve come the more we’ve moved away from embracing what has brought us here. I have all the respect in the world for other cultures who will use these same degrading times as a source of sparking empowerment ensuring that it never happens to their people again. Are we positive that this won’t happen to us as a collective people again? Have we allowed our lives almost to be considered non-‐existent because the question has to be asked what have we bridged if anything at all? We’ve come from a struggle to video but sadly our children will start in this documentary unless as a collective people we re-‐invest in our culture. Respectfully, THE WHEEL SPEAKS ON 2013 (The Way Humanity/Hudson Expects Everyone to Live)