Once again the social injustices of our country are displayed in all its splendor. Check out this article, "Sixteen year old charged with felony after science project goes wrong." published by the Westside Gazette, the oldest African-American owned and operated newspaper in Broward County, Florida. How is it that Kierra Wilmot's teacher allowed her to present her project yet she is charged for endangering others? Is it not the faculty's responsibility to protect the children, including from themselves? The fact that a black honor roll student is led off of campus in handcuffs and charged as an adult for a science project that caused no damage or harm is a clear sign that our youth is still being targeted for extinction. After Treyvon Martin's heinous murder and the incarceration of 12 middle and high school teens for a cafeteria food fight, we continue to prove that we haven't come as far as from racially inequality as they'd like us to think. The fact that they continue to target our future only serves to prove that we are facing a form of genocide that is being meted out in an inauspicious manner.
No matter the efforts of the world's true minority, they cannot and will not lead us to extinction. Unfortunately, we kill ourselves by indulging and perpetrating the ideologies of prejudicial concepts and theories (i.e. Willie Lynch Papers). Bishop Desmond Tutu once said,
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
In the wake of the Zimmerman trial, we are slowly awakened to the surreal cloud under which we live: A cloud of overt acceptance and clandestine hatred. As one of my brothers said, we must stop supporting these degrading delineations of our African-American history. In the of early Oscar nomination nods, it is a travesty that our people are only recognized for our portrayals of slaves, maids, womanizers, and even a crooked cop. The fact that we are only artistically relevant in demoralizing roles shows that we are "accepting our roles in society" with complicity as we continue to celebrate the acknowledgements as if they are truly rewarding.
It is time for us to take responsibility for our actions and, ostensible, inaction. We are our own worst enemy and it is time that we are cognizant of that fact. We can control the route of our posterity. It starts with protecting our future...the youth. To let them down is to let ourselves down.
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