Another one of our brothers is murdered. It is the same thing that has been happening for years. There is a history of black boys and men being murdered: Ramarley Graham, Amadou Diallo, Ousmane Zongo, Patrick Dorismond, Michael Stewart, James Craig Anderson, Emmett Till, and it is sad to say that I left out so many other names.
I was going trough my own grief of a family death and when I heard about this I was not prepared to write much but I needed to post.   Does carrying a bag of Skittles and iced tea  warrant one to be  treated as suspect and then  be murdered? I have experienced this ‘suspect’ feeling as most of you if you are black men/boys have. We know what that is about! And so we must toe the line of 21 century overseer who tells you where to walk, how to wear your hair, what to wear, and how to talk. It is a travesty that this institutionalized and accepted racism lives on and on. My blessings  and prayers go out to Trayvon Martin’s Family.
Obama’s words on March 23rd.

Recommended reading:
The Little Black Book -Black Male Survival in America by Carole Taylor 2$

It’s a new year 2012 and I celebrated Kwanzaa again this year. I love my holiday season. Many people do not celebrate… but the friends that I have that do, bring such joy to me and the conversations that we have during that time about africaness is so invigorating. Have you celebrated Kwanzaa? And what do you think about it?  (leave a comment. So here I will add my feelings for rejuvenation for 2012…. It is in part, an excerpt of The African Seed… secrets slowly being stripped away to you….many blessings:

You have gone through life and it has dealt you ups and downs. Sometimes more downs than ups? If you have had a really rough life you will find it difficult to stop thinking about what happened to you. It is difficult just forget about that and focus on joy, because at some point you must mourn the pain; the child that was lost or the childhood that you’ve missed. Have a funeral for it; we must. And until we have mourned, and it could take more than a moment, a day or a month or a year, moving on in our path to inheritance will be hazy.

You may have thought; “hey something is wrong here in my soul”. You may not have even known what it is and without knowing, it is difficult to even deal with. You must, if you have not already, funeralize your past of whatever it is, even if wounds are still there. You will learn here how to get a handle on that.

And when we have funeralised our past wounds  or are on the road to doing that, we feel a sense of freedom. Later, I will talk about how to mourn the wounds, but I want to share that if you focus too much on the wounds, they will continue to steal moments away in your life and that is something you don’t desire. There are ways to release negative feelings and once you have released the pain of your past you can begin to bring yourself joy.

One of the most powerful things we should get into the habit of doing, is write in our own language. Write down your thoughts in a place where only you can read it, maybe on a paper stapled together you keep in a place that no one will know about. And if you can’t write in words, write in pictures, pictures of your pain and words of your pain. You will gain the knowledge to release them. While you are at that, start by writing down the BLESSINGS you have in your life now and the benefits you want.