(ThyBlackMan.com) With the presidential election behind us how has this affected the black community? How have black people taken this country backwards instead of forward? These are questions that really need answers because we are good at complaining about anything and anyone, but the minute someone offers some free food or whatever all that high and mighty logic just went out the window. As a black woman I am embarrassed and ashamed of what has become of our race and it’s like folks don’t care anymore as to who represents them politically or otherwise. This country is moving forward in a negative way and in so many words is slowly being taken back a century. The Black Lives Movement has played a role in the declination of black people actually making progress in this country other than being publicly filmed fighting with police and among each other.
We also took this country backwards when some of us decided to vote for a man who has no political experience and is basically about to run the country into the ground. We are not an organized race by
any means because we complain about everything from being broke to the world in general. The sad thing is that many blacks are not engaging themselves in the political process whether it be the mayor’s election in their home city or even the governor’s election in their state of residence.
We as a people haven’t learned what our ancestors had fought and died for. The sacrifices of those before them laid the groundwork for them to live in a world that’s free of racial restrictions. I think about all that my ancestors have given for me to be able to sit here and type this piece and express what’s going on in the world. Going back to slavery slaves were killed for doing simple things such as reading and writing two valuable tools that could one day get them free.
The complete and total disregard for getting an education and a job something that many young black men and women are not taking seriously. They’re ok with living on free money to get housing and food, but have no desire or motivation to want to get their education and a job to support themselves. That’s one of the main factors of why black people are moving backwards instead of forward and it’s only getting worse with the number of grown able-bodied adults living at home with no career or school plans and being taken care of by a parent or grandparent.
The parents and grandparents have contributed in the failure of young black people making a place in society in 2016-2017. Many newly minted adults in this world are having a hard time getting a decent start in life because they haven’t cut off people who are only holding them back from opportunities presented to them.
We’re continuing to go backwards when we also deal with our people being chronically incarcerated and not getting their lives together. People view us negatively because of our behavior and what many of us have been allowing to happen in our families and homes. If we stopped allowing BS and setting real standards meaning if you got an able bodied adult living at home on Section 8 and food stamps, but won’t work how to do you come across this kind of wasteful nonsense? Start by cutting off things such as access to a car or even a cell phone and make them go and get a government phone since having the net to Facebook is a luxury and some things should be treated as such.
Staff Writer; Nafeesah Abdullah