50 Years Later You’re Still a N***** Openly and Secretly
“Oh, it’s just a word. It doesn’t mean anything. Words never killed anyone.”–The N-word enthusiasts.
Hmmm.
*Black male being pursued by the police. With his hands up, or even his arms trapped under the knees of an officer while lying on the asphalt, says, “Don’t shoot!”
Officer: *shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot….
Judge: “For the offense of selling drugs, I sentence you to life in prison without the possibility of parole.”
Doctor: “You have ______________[fill in the disease]. All we can do now is make you comfortable.”
*Native Americans on seeing the first white settlers. “They look friendly enough. Let’s help them.”
Emmett Till: “Hey, baby” (the lie of what was said varies, but the reality is he said nothing).
Lynch mob: “Let’s get that little n***er. Teach ’em how we do things in the great state of Mississippi.”
*Dr. Martin Luther King arriving in Memphis.
Confidantes of King: “Let’s move you to the Lorraine.”
Words indeed have power.
This man is an African American. African (Kenyan) father and American mother.
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This woman is black/a person of color–an American (every black person you see is not an African American; stop using that sh*t as a blanketed term for all dark people). The man to the right of her is an African king and a superhero (played by American actor Chadwick Boseman, who has somehow managed to play James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in several Hollywood films–though he resembles none of these men, and no one has ever said, “Damn, James, Jackie, and Thurgood are dopplegangers–can’t ever tell them motherf*ckers apart”)–a work of fiction.
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This is the state flag of Tennessee, the state in which MLK died 50 years ago today. A picture is worth a 1000 words.
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The Tennessee flag, like most state flags in the South, resemble the Confederate flag, which represents a “country” that was never officially established and lost in the civil war, so those holding on to this emblem of the “good ol days,” remember, you’re proudly celebrating the mediocrity of your ancestors. Look at this picture. I’m depressed for him.
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Okay, so in case you didn’t understand what I was doing here, let me break it down for you.
The Confederate “soldier” and those who live in states who have a variation of the Confederate flag as the flying banner for their states would call the people in the previous photos, in spite of them being the former president and first lady of the United States and the first black Marvel comic book hero, n***ers–even people who look exactly like them would call them that.
Let’s not forget Mr. Rainbow Push himself, Jesse Jackson, said he would cut then presidential candidate Barack Obama’s “nuts off” for talking down to black folks, trying to tell “n**ers how to act.” And that was 2008.
Whether 10 years, 50 years, or 2 months pass, black people in the United States are still n***ers.
You’ve been one since 1619. That is 399 years. Damn, when you’re going to start calling and seeing yourself and others like you as what you are–a human being.
I don’t have a dream. I have a reality.
There are no n****** in the promised land King spoke of.
Change.
