Have you ever had one of those days where you just felt like callin’ out Negroes and No-grows? You know the ones…those who are destructive to the Black community...simply take up space and air. How about the Negroes in key positions to make a positive difference in the lives of Black folk, yet their priority is riding around high and mighty in fancy, shiny cars, living in big houses outside of city limits, behind iron gates where they are “the only ones” and proud of it?
These are the same Negroes who come from the “hood,” (the neighborhood), and lose their last piece of Black mind once getting a little “ed-u-ma-ka-shun,” returning from college as if they are the “better black folk” (when the truth is they probably barely made it out). They move on up to the East Side (or the North side), like the Jefferson’s and work hard to assimilate to someone else’s culture.
The worst Negroes are in the education system. They are always making sure other folks children learn, but degrade little Jamal and Keisha (the children who are left behind), telling others outside the system nonsense such as, “These black children just don’t want to learn and I am not going to try to teach them anything, because they are lazy and trifling.” The so called educators are more concerned with merit pay and benefits, than paying attention to the children they are paid to teach and giving them the benefit of the doubt. The ability to learn is despite any obstaclesthere, but sometimes the will must be brought out. But then again, only a good and sincere educator has the desire to make sure all children learn, especially those left behind.
We find the Negroes at the collegiate level as well, and sadly, at too many of our historically black institutions. They are busy trying to fatten their pockets, rather than work to provide a strong, academic, culturally enriching, and socially balanced learning environment for the students paying tuition, as well as their salaries. We already know there are Negroes in the pulpit needing to be called out. The so called “men of God” usually show up sooner or later on the evening news for violating little girls or boys, or somebody’s Mama. Sometimes they get caught on the DL with Brotha so-n-so.
The bottom line is folk just need to be humble, and do the right thing. There is no need to get so high and mighty that you forget yourself and try to correct Bigmama when she talks. Someone said every Negro is a potential Afrikan, and if this is true, then there is hope once Negroes are called out. They just might end up doing something good in the community, rather than going around causing havoc and embarrassment.
Remember, “You reap what you sow (what goes around comes right back and bites you in the tail), and never forget, Aluta Continua, “the struggle continues.”