(ThyBlackMan.com) As a quasi-activist/blogger, I am often confronted with allegations of being a racist. I consider this allegation to be an indication that what I said rang somewhat true to the reader who responds and that they lack any ability to retort. The new racial game in America is to accuse anyone who engages in conversation about race to be a racist. There is a concerted effort to delegitimize all of our arguments for social justice and equality which comes from a sense of lost privilege by some people in America.
I consider this irrational argument to be consistent with the symptoms and appearance of Obama Derangement Syndrome. Otherwise rational people who remember the history of this nation and many, who have no real education about our nation’s founding, are behaving irrationally about race. The false 
sense of lost privilege by some Americans is visible in their political reflexes almost as if an “event” triggered a primordial response which has altered their normal neurochemical balance indefinitely.
We have been speaking our truth consistently from the beginning. Our story has not changed. We African-Americans have been the most patient and loving people in the world to those whom have waged war on us. We have not lashed out in violence or in hatred. However, we will continue to speak our truth and we must because if we fail to, then our children will lose all sense of who they are and of the greatness from which they descend. They will be lost. We must; I insist.
I believe that the struggle has taken its toll on our people. I believe that our manhood and therefore our family structure has been decimated by the War on Drugs. I believe that the only thing that permits the kind of inhumanity against man such as the inhumanity that this nation’s justice system perpetuates against young African-American and Latino-American males is the fact that they are black and brown. I believe that this is the fundamental issue plaguing African-American people today and that we are powerless to ever change our situation without first ending this war on us. How can I not talk about race? How can I not discuss the racial/political forces that are affecting the progress of my country? I am not uncomfortable with the topic, I’m angered by it and I think that African-American ought to be a lot angrier about what is happening to us.
Brothers, continue to speak your truth. Continue to tell the story of your existence in this nation. Don’t be silenced. Athletes and Entertainers must use opportunities such as an ESPN special to promote the awareness of the poor justice that Oscar Grant received. LeBron James announced his decision to go to Miami on the same day that the Johannes Mehserle trial ended in the Los Angeles area and he said nothing. He had millions of viewers in the palm of his hand and he said NOTHING!!! One symbolic black man was receiving millions of dollars for every 1000 of us killed in the streets by police like Oscar Grant. LeBron James missed an opportunity of a lifetime because he was either unaware or because he is a coward; neither of which are great choices. Perhaps he was afraid of something. Perhaps speaking about a race might make him a racist? Is that what’s keeping you quiet?
Staff Writer; Darrick Herndon
