KyokushinKarateMan
Train hard, fight easy
Systemic racism is indeed how we got to this point, but there’s no excuse for why we’ve chosen to stay here. And for so long. Far too often you hear people use systemic racism as an excuse for all the present day drugs and violence in our community. All the shootings everyday throughout all of the major cities. All of the absentee father issues.
Systemic racism caused those issues, yes, but we can’t just come to that conclusion, and then stop.
The only conclusion we should be drawing from systemic racism, is that we didn’t get like this just because we’re somehow inherently “bad people”, as cacs and systemic racism will have you think.
The conclusion that we are to draw from acknowledging systemic racism is one that allows us to see ourselves for who we truly are, not who systemic racism has made us become. We can look at systemic racism and see clearly that we were psychologically engineered through slavery and Jim Crow to have some of the faults we have today.
However, systemic racism is NOT an excuse for why we’ve chosen to stay this way.
Last month when two car loads of Black people drove across the city at 3am and unloaded 150+ rounds into another Black home, killing a 3 year old boy in his sleep and riddling his 4 year old sister’s legs with bullets - that cannot be blamed on systemic racism. The constant glorifying of this type of violence in our rap music, is not systemic racism. These are conscious decisions being made by people who know the consequences of said decisions. That’s not systemic racism.
We need to start holding ourselves accountable for the constant self-inflicted tragedies that continue to bring so much pain to the community. Not systemic racism. That only tells us why we had such a bad start, it doesn’t excuse us for continuing to destroy our own selves.
And yes, I’m using us and we. If you feel you are not a part of what’s going on and that “long as you and yours straight…”, you’re in the wrong thread.
Systemic racism caused those issues, yes, but we can’t just come to that conclusion, and then stop.
The only conclusion we should be drawing from systemic racism, is that we didn’t get like this just because we’re somehow inherently “bad people”, as cacs and systemic racism will have you think.
The conclusion that we are to draw from acknowledging systemic racism is one that allows us to see ourselves for who we truly are, not who systemic racism has made us become. We can look at systemic racism and see clearly that we were psychologically engineered through slavery and Jim Crow to have some of the faults we have today.
However, systemic racism is NOT an excuse for why we’ve chosen to stay this way.
Last month when two car loads of Black people drove across the city at 3am and unloaded 150+ rounds into another Black home, killing a 3 year old boy in his sleep and riddling his 4 year old sister’s legs with bullets - that cannot be blamed on systemic racism. The constant glorifying of this type of violence in our rap music, is not systemic racism. These are conscious decisions being made by people who know the consequences of said decisions. That’s not systemic racism.
We need to start holding ourselves accountable for the constant self-inflicted tragedies that continue to bring so much pain to the community. Not systemic racism. That only tells us why we had such a bad start, it doesn’t excuse us for continuing to destroy our own selves.
And yes, I’m using us and we. If you feel you are not a part of what’s going on and that “long as you and yours straight…”, you’re in the wrong thread.
