I Have a Nightmare...Believe It or Not

I have been thinkin' bout dis for a while and decided to share it with yall.

You know it’s been over 40 years since Martin Luther King gave his infamous “I have a dream speech” in Washington DC. There is no doubt that many black americans have achieved the dream. Whites have opened up opportunities once denied to blacks. In many cases they have given us preference in an effort to balance the scales. Many blacks have embraced these opportunities and prospered.

Despite this success black pathology is much worse than it was in 1963 when MLK gave his speech. Black jailing rates are on the rise. Blacks top the list in violent crime, drug abuse and non-work. Teenage pregnancy and unwed mothers are now the norm among blacks. Eighty percent of black children live in single parent homes. Blacks are far more dependent of welfare than they were in the good ol' dayz. High school drop out rates haven’t changed and in some areas they have worsened. Whites rarely commit crimes against blacks. The norm is blacks killing blacks and there has been an increase in violent crimes by blacks against whites. Despite the ability to live with whites we still segregate themselves in all black ghettos that gangsta life is ruling.

Back in tha day we had products with images of fat Aunt Jemima and hur pancakes (yall gettin hungry), Uncle Ben (an uncle tom) and happy go lucky pick-i-ninnies sitting in watermelon patches avoiding work. Some applaud the demise of these images but have things really changed.

Last night I i was fortunate to see a Campbell’s Soup commercial with Bow-wow. It Had Bow-wow behind his huge mansion playing bball and listening to rap in a large boom box with diamond studs in both ears and displayed****y and grandiose behavior. he looked like a completely one-dimensional rap dumb ass (naw take it back RAP B!TCH). How is this any less of an offensive stereotype than the proverbial “coon in the watermelon patch”? Tha sad fact is that after 40 years not much has changed for a large proportion of our black Americans. In fact in some ways thing are worse. Tha nicca had a dream but the dream from my perspective looks more like a nightmare.

Anyone else feel me I mean not hating on my black brothers but still mayne things gotta change for tha better.

Bow Wow isn't the only one that's being broadcast right now. Take for instance Thirst, the new Sprite mascot. He has the most annoying voice ever, he's overdressed in "typical' black clothing. He sits on a stoop (remind of that watermelon patch) and drools over white women.

As far as black movies are concerned, unless they are independent films, they're pure sh!t. Look at all of the movies Sanaa Lathan has been in, they are all remixed copies of Love and Basketball. Morris Chesnut is a joke. Every film he does, which is almost every black film, is based around sex. Although I do respect John Singleton's films (Boys in the Hood, Friday series). To white people they seem like stereotypical "hood dramas." To black people these are monumental epics. I wish black actors would take a stand and be more critical of the roles they take. I mean each new black film is just a carbon copy of one that was done two years ago. Out of the top 15 movies in theatres now only two black actors hold leading roles; Queen Latifah and Will Smith. Queen Latifah lost major cool points with me with that Bringing Down the House role. Will Smith lost all points with The Legend of Bagger Vance. Both of these are prime examples of magical negro roles that fill movie theatres.

Sorry if I lost anyone. I'm a film major and I pay very close attention to things like this.

Sorry to break it to you Chess, but I'm an 18 y/o female. If it makes you feel any better every 5th Wednesday I pretend to be a 16 y/o boy so I can get a cheap cut. :)

Anyway I am aware of cultural genocide because I want to be. I find that most of the Black community doesn't care. They are so engulfed with self and the here and now that anything past themselves in the current moment is completely irrelevant. The worst are those who refuse to look at the facts because they aren't affected by the rising crime, poverty, unemployment, and drop-out rates. I actually have friends who believe that the plight of Black America is it's height! If it were then why are organizations like Uhuru and UNIA still in full swing? If I could I would send every black person in America a copy of Willie Lynch's essay "How to Make a Slave." The tactics he imposed are still being inforced to this day. GOOD HAIR...MY GOD!

What Black America needs right now is a mass self-education movement. We need to learn as a people who we are, what we've been through and why it happened to truly understand how to improve our existence on this Earth. And not only to improve this generation but all future generations. Because if black people as a whole can invest in one aspect of the future it would truly make a difference.

I don't think it's that people are bitter or unhappy that they hate on each other. We've be psychologically trained to covet the greatness of others. We as a people need to take control ourselves.

http://thetalkingdrum.com/wil.html <-How to make a Slave

My kitchen is always open and the food is always hot and fresh.

And what will God do?

SORRY MIS. BODYGUARD PLEASE FORGIVE MY GENDER IGNORANCE.I THINK WE DIFFER ON THE ISSUE OF SELF HATE AND ENVY IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY BUT THATS FINE I THINK YOUR A VERY IMPRESSIVE YOUNG SISTER I ONLY HOPE MY DAUGHTER HAVE YOUR ATTRIBUTES.THX FOR YOUR INSIGHT.TO YOUNG JARELL THOSE WHO SAY THE LEAST USUALLY SAY THE MOST..

jarell1944 wrote: everything is all messed up...majority of yung black ppl just dont care now a days..ppl need God in they life

im sayin