(ThyBlackMan.com) We all have a right to our feelings, and opinions. However this doesn’t make them fact nor should we always act on them. Throughout our history in this country, as Black People, we have been fighting oppression. So many different leaders have been at the head of harming us it’s hard to keep count. With that being said one of the most resilient characteristics of our history has become our ability to rise above the hatred and not only survive, but live. This doesn’t mean we didn’t have setbacks nor mistakes…but we continued to press forward.
Hatred has a very interesting way of destroying the person that wields it. As a whole we have not done to others what has been done to us. I wonder if that is a virtue we are losing in the current generation. Even a hand full of us stooping to the level of our oppressors is dangerous. There is so much we need be concerned with in our community. Honestly, what time do we have to consider desecrating someone’s funeral…even if it is Nancy Reagan.
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan passed on Sunday, March 6, 2016.
Though many would show outpouring of love and sympathy some would see this as the end of the Reagan time. For African-Americans Ronald Reagan’s administration as President was harsh economically. Many historians looked back and found Reaganomics to have been detrimental for us. As Nancy Reagan would be seen as the face of “Just Say No” anti drug campaign her husband would sign a drug enforcement bill that would fully birth mandatory minimum drug sentencing.
The disparity between cocaine and crack in sentencing would scream of racial discrimination. To this day we are still fighting the consequences of this bill. Blacks have much to be annoyed about when reflecting on Former President Ronald Reagan, who passed in 2004. When he passed I didn’t hear about any petitions to protest or act out at his funeral. Not that is would have been possible, but I don’t remember reading on such at all.
The problem arises then when some of our people want to petition to have rap artist Fetty Wap perform ,”Trap Queen” at Nancy Reagan’s funeral.
“Thousands have signed a petition calling for Fetty Wap to perform his hit song “Trap Queen” at Nancy Reagan’s funeral in a symbolic act to criticize her role in the War on Drugs.
The Change.org petition called the former First Lady “the most famous Trap Queen in American history,” citing a conspiracy theory that alleged her husband helped the CIA to get involved in cocaine trafficking even as she was leading the “Just Say No” fight against drugs.”
Even if you feel there is truth to this …or you can prove it disrupting Nancy Reagan’s funeral with a song about selling drugs would prove that her husband was indeed successful if his goal was the destruction of black people via the crack epidemic. Why wouldn’t we petition for a positive unified stance that says we will not be destroyed? I am truly disappointed with change.org for supporting such foolishness. There was no comment from rap artist Fetty Wap; unless he intends to speak against this nonsense I hope he remains silent.
There is entirely too much work to be done for us to lose any time with this distasteful nonsense. We all have a right to our feelings, but what makes us stronger than our opposition is the ability to arrest the negative and continue to press forward. We don’t have to curse the dead to prove a point, we do that by blessing the living. Let’s not trade our culture for that which seeks to harm us
Staff Writer; Christian Starr
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