When people think about African Americans, their face becomes distressed, as if we're aliens from a different planet, we're even classified differently when it comes to applying for jobs, during award shows, even commercials. Come on...On one hand, we're asking for those of different races to except us, Black-African Americans, as their equals and on the completely other hand we're separating ourselves. Now, that's not to say that Americans aren't trying to separate us either but my question is...How can we, as the African Americans, complain if we, ourselves, are falling in line or back in formation of separating our own selves?
My opinion is that, we as people can not keep complaining about change expecting a change to come all while doing and or not doing anything different ourselves, in doing so we're driving ourselves insane literally by definition, because only insane people continue to do the same things over and over again, expecting different outcomes each and every time! If we, as Black-African Americans really wanted a change to come, we would make the first steps forward to allow a change to come and WAIT for the progress. The problem then becomes the fact that our race, is so fucking impatient, that we get tired of waiting on Americans to move at our pace instead of their own. So we then start a movement of our own, not realizing that our moves aren't actually in a forward motion but in a backward one instead!
We're segregating our own race from those of other races, all the while asking why White, Hispanic, Latino and Chinese people don't understand us but want to be like us? When the question should be why don't we rather why can't we, Black- African Americans understand ourselves enough to not get so mad/ angry, at the fact that other races want to imitate us because, if we had more sense or if we used our heads, calmed down and really sat back to realize that imitation is the highest form of flattery, then it would finally dawn on us that they (Americans/ other races) don't hate us intentionally, they actually dislike, with a passion, what they wish they could be themselves...
Maybe they feel like the people who are transgender, who we're born in the wrong body, except they were born in the wrong skin! Same could be said about us Black-African Americans, with all the changes we keep trying to make to our physical appearance. Example being the slanted eyes we try to give ourselves with make-up (Chinese) or the waist trainers/ tummy tucks/ lipo-suction for a skinny body that we weren't born with but (white people) were or, the way we like to dress with our mid-drifts out/uncovered (Latinos) or getting super long ass weave down our backs (Hispanics).
We as people imitate things we've grown fond of, from the clothes on our backs, to the shoes on our feet, to the hair down our backs or lack there of. The difference is, we as African Americans choose to take offense when others "treat" us a certain way, not fully realizing that we "treat" others in that same manner but for some reason it's justified in our minds! Because of what, I mean why? Because of slavery? Well guess what, there was also genocide to other specific races not just ours. Slavery doesn't make us different nor does it keep us stagnate, it actually makes us strong willed, which allows us to give testimonials throughout our life, to create change and trying to create change, is a process and having the ability to be PATIENT through that process, allows room for PROGRESS! It's a step by step flow/reaction just like when a baby learns to walk, they must first learn to sit, then crawl, then walk allowing them to one day run! It's all movement but, we have to remember is that even movement takes time...It has to first start with us but, that can not happen if we're constantly going insane dancing back-in-forth, we have got to learn a new dance.
- lets salsa!
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