Trayvon martin to _________

       

                          Murdered. Shot dead. Slain. Youth’s life cut too short.

Across the USA and the world, headlines like this plaster newspapers, videos and social media posts.  Genuine outrage, shock, and yes relief at the verdict displayed by our brothers and sisters of ALL races now have the potential to spark an actual change in this global society.  But it won’t happen. No, not while race issues, cultural issues and the legacy of white supremacy is not on the forefront of everyday peoples minds. Analysis and implementation of solutions on a massive grassroots level require a culture of courage.  Something we have yet to see in this current generation.

          So don hoodies overlaid with pictures of deceased or imprisoned beings.  March and yell till our throats go hoarse struggling with the pain of societal decay. Then—what?  Afterwards do we return to our cramped, economically occupied, paramilitary patrolled pissed filled ‘hoods? Do we return back to inadequate living wages subject to random searches or worst case scenario death or do we as a people stand and face the enemy?  The enemy being, white supremacists strangle hold on truly free speech.

          See language is the expression of thought and emotion. Language is the precursor to culture and culture is the mother of revolution.  This politically sanitized world where to dare to speak truth in a coarse bare bones manner is frowned upon is the antitheses of a culture of courage.  To suggest that this is in fact not a post racial world is discouraged, not so much in words but in lack of action and conviction.   Programs designed to educate our youth on the reality of this society is what’s needed. A society where the court system historically and presently give a tangible place to actualize the system of white supremacy versus every other group of people is where we are.  To think differently is dangerous…but that is your right.

          Back to Trayvon for a moment.  An innocent life is gone; innocent in the sense that his only true crime was being born with a skin tone that radiates danger...for someone who will never understand what it means to be black and young in America.  More blood shed in a land founded on death and deception.  So when is enough enough.  When do the descendants of imprisoned Africans speak on the cultural war being waged against us on our own terms? And when do Whites just listen and move out the way? Integration vs. infiltration vs. invasion is what I speak of.  We have been effectively assimilated and hypnotized by the American system of greed and imperialism.  Which in case you don’t know perpetuates a power structure of dominance (white) and subservience (insert your race here).

          Stand and fight. Fight with words and deed.  Fight with thought.  Think on who controls the food, transportation, communication, entertainment, courts, police, industrial, and military systems.  More importantly think how that will contribute to the next Trayvon Martin, because it might just be you.

          Peace.