(ThyBlackMan.com) As children, when my siblings and I did something good, my mother never failed to compliment us. On the other hand, when we did something bad, she never failed to chastise us by providing a bit of corrective action! Whichever we were to face, my mother did it with love. At times she would add, “This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you!” We found that hard to believe; however, we tried our best to do better or make improvements the next time. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our Supreme Court and our politicians did the same thing—make things better?
Some people like to talk about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s dream. They talk about equality, but somehow forget that our nation has never been equal for many of us. So, just declaring equality does not make it so. Forward positive movement makes it so.
Donald Trump, the twice impeached, several times indicted, once convicted, many times exerciser of super bad behavior, made the phrase “Make America Great Again” famous. My friend, Dick Gregory, always responded with, “You act like America has already been great for some of us!”
Sure, there was a time when many of us thought taking something to the Supreme Court would provide justice for our righteous causes. No longer are we under that illusion. Our only consolation is that we have three of the four women on the United States Supreme Court willing to make America great for all of us. We’re grateful for Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan—but for all their strong voices for justice for all, we need more!
We need a new Civil and Human Rights Movement because those rights we once thought we had are now slipping away faster than we’re moving forward in basic rights. The hatred we are experiencing is coming from so many directions. It’s sad to say that too much hate and the blocking of our moving forward are coming from within.
One glaring example of blocking our forward movement is Clarence Thomas. His hatred for us is so glaring that he not only takes advantage of affirmative action for himself, but he votes to deny it for those who’ve come after him. Let me be clear. I am not suggesting that attending Harvard University is any better for a Black student than attending Howard University or any of our fine predominantly and historically Black colleges and universities. Learning to appreciate diversity in this country is not exclusively for Black people. That is the way it is treated, however. So many things people other than white people have created are used by them, and some are presumably used by the Thomas family.
Let’s name a few: The gas mask grabbed by Members of Congress when they were under siege in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the blood bank, improved ironing board, home security system, yield traffic light, refrigerated truck, automatic elevator doors, tissue holder, automatic gear shift helping people to drive uphill, clothes dryer, dust pan, folding chair, golf tees, lawnmower, lawn sprinkler, modern toilet, the mop and too many things to mention here, but I am sure you get the idea.
My point for mentioning these things that benefit all people is that many of those who invented them didn’t say, “We are inventing these things for ourselves, and for nobody else.” No doubt, they were happy to benefit everybody. Just look at where we are now. Just look at where our Supreme Court is. They seem to be happy to take us back to a day when we had no rights and now they’re taking away others we once had!
Written By Dr. E. Faye Williams
Official website; http://www.efayewilliams.com/
There aren’t any words that carry more negative connotative implications in America than the words ” black community. ” The idea that there are black communities in America is a myth that has been created within the political, economic, and social atmosphere of western world colonialism. There are only American communities, not white communities, not black communities, not red, brown, or yellow communities, only American communities. Within American western world colonization, there is a need to create those who are others to be colonized.
Western world colonization in America is a conquering, all encompassing political, economic, and social ideal laden system which carries with it a way of thinking including metaphysics, axiology, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and logic. This colonization process is a complete system. We must learn how to become American not black .
Boy, I guess all people with an education must have gotten them at a woke school. This writer, a Dr., sees only hurt and evil and the bad. She looks (I think she is a she) at the negative in our country and from an identity group. Sure, all was not equal thru Dr. King’s era and since. But, remember that it was the Democrat Party that fought every move the Civil Rights movement made forward. Life is not ideal in our country, but we all know that immigrants still flock here despite our flaws. Is is better for this author elsewhere? Then, go. Don’t stay here with the women who scream from the confirmation balconies, freak out when they are called a he when they want she or try to arrest as many peaceful pro-life marchers as you can for silently praying.
Retaliate, seek revenge, push, push and push and then wonder why folks get uptight about crazy half-naked trans activists and folks that glue themselves to highways to block traffic or call for destruction of the nuclear family and then blame GOP or white American for black on black crime, crime-ridden cities that are collapsing and upset in the push to put men into women’s sports. King had it right, but obviously many blacks do not see it. When BLM burns and riots and colleges makes safe spaces and attack Jews or Catholics or whoever and make separate dorms, classes, programs, etc. aimed to disrupting unity and cohesion, nothing gets accomplished. Our country does not need a black or Native or southern National Anthem. What silliness and foolishness. If you want division, keep doing this crap. Keep preaching division and separation. I bet our national enemies love it. So much that they feel safe practically walking their spies and drug dealers easily across our southern border, you know all those ILLEGALS Dems love to call undocumented, the ones white guilty folks feel they must welcome in even when it costs American minorities benefits. Overplay your cards and watch out. Many black families, who are fortunate to have a father and mother often do not buy into this “village” stuff for their children.
How about black power folks building fathers back into the picture? Let’s cut this identity politics of division stuff. It benefits no one. We talk about hurts and division and then we have to realize it that demanding pronouns and making men women and killing and cutting up young kids are NOT good things. Giving women or men or whomever abortion power is not a human right. It’s a death sentence. Not too many women or the fathers run around bragging about their abortions. And, if they do, something is wrong. Is human life that cheap. You know, “Save the whales and our marshlands, but Jews and kids and all male army schools or all women sororities must go NOW.” Such tolerance. Accept us and our demands of course. Oh, it really must be okay to have drag queens in our kindergarten classes. If you think that is healthy, I guess it is hard to have a discussion.