You Know, Everything Going to Be Alright for Us Brothas and Sistas
The US Department of Labor just release the latest unemployment data and it does not bold well – not enough jobs are being created to bring America back to a full economic recovery from the 2008 meltdown. Crime is high and rampant in the Black communities across America and while Chi-town cats believe they are doing the most killing, New Orleans is actually the biggest per capita city where cats are straight killing hard left and right down there.
In addition to housing and crime, our culture is being impacted with violent lyrics spewed by Radio One media controlled by the legendary Cathy Hughes, Atlanta mega church people beating Juanita Bynum in front of a hotel, another accused of grinding and dry humping on boys and another one of beating up his daughter. Then we got some charitable playwright and movie producer still dressing up as a woman making movies with the same tired script who haven’t taken a cue from Anderson Cooper and Frank Ocean to keep it real. And our relationships are going down the drain as we brothas and sistas don’t trust or care or even love each other like we supposed to.
Lions and Lambs
With all of that said, we African-Americans are blessed and highly favored people who preserved through much adversity for over 400 years. We were Kings and Queens who ruled Egypt, built the Pyramids – well we made those Hebrews build our pyramids but their God kicked our lightweight animal-head Gods to the curb and now we worship their Hebrew God and stuff.
We are a culture rich people deep and rooted in tradition and spirit singing all the way from the door of no return in Ghana across the Atlantic Ocean to 400 years of slavery in this strange wilderness called America. And that same Hebrew God after we enslaved his chosen people centuries ago to build our pyramids is now watching over us like a lion over a lamb, yeah I think that’s about right.
Let’s ignore the fact that nothing in the past 400 or even 4,000 years has prepared us to be in the United States of America in this current situation. This situation we are in is nothing like any of us seen before or any of our parents seen before. If we are going to compare ourselves to anybody, we need to compare to all of the extinct people that been conquered and marginalized. And speaking of lions and lambs, here is a more accurate portrayal:
The Jobs Will Come Back!!!
When you look at the latest unemployment statistics you cannot help but notice how the numbers are trending. Since brothas and sistas like to see pictures, infographics or whatever you call it, I decided to put the data in a simple graph so we can visualize what’s going on.
Another interesting statistic is the dramatic rise of unemployment of Black women – remember years ago, Essence Magazine and the sistas were saying they were the ones getting the jobs and being the breadwinners and backbone of the Black community. In 2012, our strong sistas, keeper of the single parent household are now holding it down hard at the unemployment office while Black men are picking up manual labor jobs. This data is alarming because it signals the corporate cats don’t need our Black women to hold “diversity” jobs as they found someone else filling that role and cheaper.
But wait a minute! The jobs will come back – they always come back! Let’s have faith as brothas and sistas and just believe these jobs that we Black folks lost in the past 10 years, they will come back.
So as we sit here talking we need jobs, let’s realize that out there somewhere, there is a Black jobs fairy flying around that will come back and give us brothas and sistas jobs! This fairy is a youthful light-skin, long hair sista with a magic wand that she will wave and automatically give us jobs that we can go back to working in a cubicle or the warehouse and look forward to a paycheck every week or every two weeks or the 1st and 15th like the old school days!
We don’t have to create our own jobs, start working together to build up businesses; I’m telling you the Black jobs fairy is real!!! She’ll be back even though she touring in Asia and Latin America right now giving them Black jobs overseas but she’ll be back here in America and when she come back, we’ll all have good jobs, I tells ya!
When It Comes to Black on Black Violence, We Can Beat It!
The Black on Black violence that is rampaging across America is really a spiritual battle, that’s what the Black Nationalist cats are saying. They saying brothas and sistas don’t know their history, don’t know who they are and they acting out of sheer frustration, self-hatred and rejection of their brainwashed subservience identity molded upon them by this evil empire called America. Man, that statement is deep!
I think that is so deep that these brothas and sistas don’t know themselves that we should round up school buses and force all of them to march through the DuSable Museum of the South Side of Chicago. Better yet, because we are a spiritual and cultural rich people with soul and expression, how about we get these rival gangs to just dance like the cats in Michael Jackson Beat It video?
Let’s ignore the fact that the drug pushers also outsourced the movement of drugs to non-Blacks and only have a few brothas moving the lightweight packages now while the Mexicans run the grow houses, stash houses and the white painting vans with ladders on top to move the product. Because after all, you give Black folks too much power in the snow game, Black folks want to make rap records, buy a caravan of luxury cars and parade it and throw big lavish parties popping bottles and ish drawing all kind of attention to themselves.
So what if a cat ain’t got a job, ain’t got weight to sell on the corners and some cat they don’t know on their corner making money on their corner! So what a cat is talking to a female that the cat wanted to holla at or used to holla at and want to mark his territory and identify his mating partner like a damn animal. And so what cats can easily go to Indiana and buy stuff from gun runners and come back to Chicago and now got guns to fight rival gangs and shoot anybody who got a problem! No, it’s all spiritual according to the enlightened brothas and sistas!
Summary – Everything Going to Be Alright!
If you think I was being a little sarcastic about the current state of brothas and sistas, I actually trying because our situation as African-Americans in 2012 is messed the f*ck up! I’m really tired of some of these naïve Black morons running around trying to reach hard for straws claiming our people is doing positive – this situation is hard and it’s real and it’s taking and destroying motherf*cking Black lives as we know it right here, right now and in real time.
Even worse, these cats ain’t even got real strategies and solutions for us brothas and sistas to actually help! All they doing is talking ish in front of a camera for a televised roundtable whining about what’s going wrong in Black America and some fool in the audience nodding their head screaming “Amen!” or whatever. Then their solution is to re-elect President Obama who in his second term, will try to be the President of African-Americans, not just Americans.
Running around trying to say we alright, some of our people are actually doing good and any other positive put on a happy face rhetoric ain’t going to get you any brownie points. Black people in America better wake the f*ck up and realize what is going on around us. Those jobs ain’t coming back and if they are, they damn sure don’t got your name on them! You better stay your ass up past midnight tonight and figure out what the f*ck you going to do to secure your financial future, how to better your community and how to protect yourself from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
This damn reality we facing ain’t some playtime or a joke – we need to step up as a people when the going get tough and get tough with the going in order to get something done. Stop the goddamn fantasy feel good crap on Facebook and let’s step up our game face and our seriousness to deal with the real current issues affecting us brothas and sistas in 2012.
And if you want to believe otherwise, then you can take you and this Naughty By Nature Everything Going to Be Alright song and shove it up yours and go somewhere because the rest of us going to do our damnest with real action with blood, sweat and tears to make sure it’s going to be alright so no woman no cry no more.
As I read this I can tell you that right now I am facing hard cold facts. Fact… if this thing I am doing does not pan out I will have to spend my time in a toxic work environment and get ready to commute back 30 miles outside the city to work. As deadlines approach, my once pleasant dreams full of ideas are turning to nightmares of folks waiting to write me up over any little thing and me wiping the smile off my face as I sit at a cubicle in despair with all hope gone and my life just being one measely paycheck after another. That thought actually makes me want to cry harder than I have been in the last thirty minutes as I face the reality of not finding a love. Some folks say they can go without a love life and I guess I should join them. I guess I HAVE to join them cause fact is I haven’t been in a relatinshiip going on five years which I call BS with all these men in the world. I pray more than anything that I do not lose hope in my ability to provide for myself and be my own boss as I have lost all hope in love and companionship. So I face another fact. Fact is I am getting it all out my system now so that I can focus on the things I can control as of late which is continuing to build up the business. Fact is I’m going to lay down and go to sleep. God willing wake up. And when I do I will not think of this issue again. It has now become a non factor.
We have to face facts, not feelings, not what somebody says or think. It’s just too dang on rough to play around with your life. I just cannot sit back and listen to these fools anymore. I mean they are so out of reach and backwards and….everybody just wake the hell up and stop being a zombie. Living dead. Stop this mundane crap of reading gossip blogs or these so called political blogs when you realize politics is a game and you ain’t losing or winning cause you not even a player so stop trying to argue with folks about your so called political beliefs. Secondly I’m tired of folks saying they belong to this and that…..I am in this frat, church or organization. None of that means anything. So what? I especially hate the ” belong to this church”thing. I mean church is not about the name of the church. What the hell are you doing on the frontlines? Are you out there trying to help these kids? It don’t take huge organization to do that. So get off your high horse, went to this college, got five degrees, and an underwater mortgage or $1000 plus in rent paying. mega millions wishing, while trying to louis v stunt, think lil wayne is the best rapper alive, trippin cause you gotta wash your drawers in a sink(I mean damn would you rather wear dirty drawers) fake gang banging, cowardly shooting, $200+ weave buying, fake persona having, think you the ish cause you went to the Bahamas even though you thought it was a part of the US ass somewhere and do something real. Ok I’m going to sleep now.
Tiara,
The thing I can say about you that it is a good thing to be open about the current situation we are facing. Call it out, be real about it and confront it. Too many people come to this blog and still ain’t willing to confront their real situation.
The reason why I probably still blogging because I’m not afraid of speaking out on the current situation I’m in and know what others are dealing with and going to put it out there. This is also the main reason other cats have a problem with this blog because they want to front an image of positivity and success to me and you and deny anything is wrong.
Once I assessed my current situation and the reality in terms of how much money I owe others, where I’m at versus where I want to be and looking at the quality of friends and female relationships – I made changes. I started payment plans, started setting goals against my current situation and started dumping people in my life on some BS that don’t benefit me in anyway.
All these people who are distracted and fronting, in all honestly, we just have to watch them die. I hate to be harsh but how many decades we been seeing Black folks turn 40 years old and get laid off from their job and become marginalized? Now they out there 40 years old peddling MLM programs? Then we got Black folks over 40 who never fell in love and now trying to manipulate some 20 year old kid or chasing out of their race as a solution. In addition, we now got Black folks straight dying of avoidable diseases and cancers that was due to a lifestyle of smoking, drinking, sexual activity and so on.
So in all honestly, those of us in the Black community is going to have to say f*ck all of these Black status quo crap that ain’t getting us anywhere positive and take it upon ourselves to look at our situation and take it upon ourselves to improve our situation and just do it.
You see that I’m preparing for working off success models in Japan, I don’t give a damn if someone Black come to Dream and Hustle and wonder why I talk about Japan so much. You should know I’m going through a divorce where the other side is obviously bitter hoping I go down while sitting on the same old stuff thinking I’m suffering while I’m over here building new for me. We got to work on ourselves and screw this whole “Black culture” setup that is really bland, boring and destructive at the same time.
We got to redefine ourselves on our terms and stop responding to this garbage ass Black culture being portrayed on reality television as we know it…
Tiara, sister don’t settle. There are folks out here. Get rid of lames in your circle. Commit to your success.
Ed,
Black jobs fairy…LMAO. I can’t stop laughing cause it’s true. Grown Black folks in middle age look broken now. Anything not stat quo..no love for you. I gave up talking to them.
Have you heard of this brother from the Congo that developed his own “ipad” tablet computer? I read it a few days ago and I thought about your article about Africans and technology. I read his article and why he did it. He said the exact same thing as you about Africans developing, producing, and owning tech and helping Black people. Black stat quo is the problem..in the way of real progress. You can only front for so long…and that’s what Black America is doing. Fronting.
Ed,
Man, I had to print this article. You are always on point. And yeah, I did wonder why you talked about Japan a lot. I’m going to have to start researching about what’s going on over there.
@Tiara,
I was in the same situation. When I started getting two or more headaches a week, that’s when I knew it was time to leave. I’m not going to have a stroke behind broke n**** who don’t give a damn about me, let alone themselves.
I work 3 days a week now, and on my 4 days off, I’m working on my side business. Never get comfortable. That’s why black unemployment is where it is. Black folks got way too comfortable on those jobs.
@ Jackie:
You are so right. Some of us not me but some of us got too comfortable on these jobs. Everyday I go to work I prepare myself for it to be my last day. I work in Academia where it used to be a safe bet. But no more. I have heard ignorant shyt from my own family members that say dumb shyt like they are only concerned about themselves and their kids. If your a$$ is depending on someone to sign your check that is definately not the right approach. I, too, have been examining my relationships and decided I am going to cut the snakes off at the head. I have been a very generous person to a fault. I have allowed people in need to live with me sometimes for free because they were in need and I had the means but some of these same people have the most selfish attitudes.
@ Ed you are so right about the financial thing. I was approved for a car loan at the Toyota dealership. Someone stole my car from the GRTA park and ride last year and I have not had a car since such time. I got kind of tired of being without a vehicle so something crawled up in my to get a car note. Well I came to my senses. I may can pay the note but I cannot afford it. I will continue to save for an older model volvo which was my plan.
@ Tiarra we all need love and it is very unhealthy for some one to believe we do not. Here is the thing we still cannot settle because that is a different type of death. I know what you mean about fighting for your business. I write books and let me tell you sometimes the numbers are good but often times not. So I sit here and work this job to make the ends meet. None of us can afford to wait on the Job fairy cuz that is just a fantasy.