Reparations
This is getting out of hand…reparations for black America. Reparations…c’mon now. Where are the REAL black people who would say 40 acres and a mule is not going to cut it. Black America needs healing not bling. Healing comes from knowing what is wrong and fixing it, not finding white America guilty of sins. We know what has been done and is being done to this day. There is no silver bullet to slay the DRAGON of Jim Crow, the DEMON of slavery, or last but never least the SPECTRE of oppression that lingers in black America’s everyday life. But lets for the sake of argument try something completely different…free and accessible EDUCATION.
Not the educations we know of today, you know Jordans, Hummers, and Platinum. Lets try real education. You know the kind where our kids go to school all year round. The teachers are not graded by how many pass or fail utilizing a standardize test. You have STANDARDIZE teaching. We all know the child at South Shore High is not receiving the same education as the child at a high school in Kenilworth. Have parents sign contracts that restrict their child from coming home and watching T.V. but having them focused on their studies. And by the way there is a way to do it…give them the dream and the goal. You know state the obvious… Your education is better than a jump shot!
Don’t grow up to Michael Jordan, grow up to be the man who drafted the next Jordan. Become bigger than a game, become a man, not a 40 million dollar slave. That’s right I said a slave. A shell of a man, a caricature, a poster than little kids look up to yet fail to ever become due to the fact you are an anomaly, a fluke. Where are the dreams that say you can be a doctor, lawyer, professor, or even a Pulitzer Prize winning writer? Those have left the building for the next Lebron or Kobe. Never do you hear of the one that says be the next Phil Knight or Warren Buffett. Do we even know who these power brokers are?
So there are reparations that need to be done…education would be one, healing should be first. AND THERE NEEDS TO BE A LOT OF THAT!
Not the educations we know of today, you know Jordans, Hummers, and Platinum. Lets try real education. You know the kind where our kids go to school all year round. The teachers are not graded by how many pass or fail utilizing a standardize test. You have STANDARDIZE teaching. We all know the child at South Shore High is not receiving the same education as the child at a high school in Kenilworth. Have parents sign contracts that restrict their child from coming home and watching T.V. but having them focused on their studies. And by the way there is a way to do it…give them the dream and the goal. You know state the obvious… Your education is better than a jump shot!
Don’t grow up to Michael Jordan, grow up to be the man who drafted the next Jordan. Become bigger than a game, become a man, not a 40 million dollar slave. That’s right I said a slave. A shell of a man, a caricature, a poster than little kids look up to yet fail to ever become due to the fact you are an anomaly, a fluke. Where are the dreams that say you can be a doctor, lawyer, professor, or even a Pulitzer Prize winning writer? Those have left the building for the next Lebron or Kobe. Never do you hear of the one that says be the next Phil Knight or Warren Buffett. Do we even know who these power brokers are?
So there are reparations that need to be done…education would be one, healing should be first. AND THERE NEEDS TO BE A LOT OF THAT!
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