I just finished watching the American Gangster episode with Mutulu Shakur and it took me back to a couple of years ago when I thought the only way a man of color can have true power in this country, no, in this world is by doing for ourselves and exclude ourselves from the rest of the world. Now my thinking has changed since then and that was before Obama became prez.
I remember being on the company van going to penn station and I was talking about Assata and this white dude (who ended up being half black but he never told anybody) was telling me how he was a state cop at the time and how much of a bad person she was and we argued the whole 30 minutes of that ride. I never looked at him the same because he could never understand what it is to be a second class citizen your whole life; why should you respect a government that doesn't even notice you and if it does it considers you a nuisance.
I wonder what people of the same cloth that the panthers and all these other groups think now. Because although Obama being president doesnt mean that racism is over there is clearly a chance in America for a man of color to make it. I think what happened showed that we are a little closer in the struggle of equality then we think. Now I think its time to channel all that energy to focus on our people because what I got was although Mutulu was fighting for us he was still helping us. And I think that's where we need to be.
No comments:
Post a Comment