Harsh, wasn't it? I did not upload this video to offend ANY of my viewers. I posted this because I woke up today. I opened my eyes to reality. Looking back on our history I see my ancestors fighting for equality, and justice. Looking at today I see my surrounding generation fighting one another in the streets. I see a young black boy make his first drug deal and a young black girl take her first pregnancy test. I see half naked girls online, and half drunk boys at parties. I see red flags and I see blue flags. I see the war that happened centuries ago, still going on today. But not a black on white war, a black on black war. And you think this is what Martin Luther King died for? Do you think he died for us to be killing one another in the streets? Do you think he died for us to be "throwing it back" at a party on Saturday, and praising God at Church on Sunday? Do you think he died for us to fight over who is lighter and who is darker? Martin Luther King died with a dream. His dream was for us to be equal to the white man, for us to be FREE of discrimination and free of the idea that we are inferior. Once we were granted with that freedom we just didn't know what to do with it, did we? Walking these streets like we are somebody, but with no aspiration to BE somebody. We had everything we needed handed to us on a silver plate; FREEDOM, equality, integration, and yet we are still looked down upon. Why is that? It is because we are not playing the correct roles as African Americans in our society. It is because the actions WE take, the words WE say, the choices WE make. It is because we aren't doing enough to better ourselves, for our future. This generation has transformed our world from the way it was to the way we never wanted it to be. So what are YOU going to do to fix it?
"I HAD a dream".
Harsh, wasn't it? I did not upload this video to offend ANY of my viewers. I posted this because I woke up today. I opened my eyes to reality. Looking back on our history I see my ancestors fighting for equality, and justice. Looking at today I see my surrounding generation fighting one another in the streets. I see a young black boy make his first drug deal and a young black girl take her first pregnancy test. I see half naked girls online, and half drunk boys at parties. I see red flags and I see blue flags. I see the war that happened centuries ago, still going on today. But not a black on white war, a black on black war. And you think this is what Martin Luther King died for? Do you think he died for us to be killing one another in the streets? Do you think he died for us to be "throwing it back" at a party on Saturday, and praising God at Church on Sunday? Do you think he died for us to fight over who is lighter and who is darker? Martin Luther King died with a dream. His dream was for us to be equal to the white man, for us to be FREE of discrimination and free of the idea that we are inferior. Once we were granted with that freedom we just didn't know what to do with it, did we? Walking these streets like we are somebody, but with no aspiration to BE somebody. We had everything we needed handed to us on a silver plate; FREEDOM, equality, integration, and yet we are still looked down upon. Why is that? It is because we are not playing the correct roles as African Americans in our society. It is because the actions WE take, the words WE say, the choices WE make. It is because we aren't doing enough to better ourselves, for our future. This generation has transformed our world from the way it was to the way we never wanted it to be. So what are YOU going to do to fix it?
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