LAST NIGHT I ACTUALLY SHED A TEAR WHEN I SAW LEAN ON ME AFTER NEARLY 6 YEARS AND I THOUGHT ABOUT WHEN BACK IN THE DAY THE GHETTO WAS A PLACE WHERE WE GOT DISCIPLINED AND UNDERSTOOD HOW WE ARE TODAY.WHAT EVER HAPPENED OUR STRONG BLACK LEADERS WHO MADE US SEE THE LIGHT? WE WERE NEVER DISRESPECTFUL TO OUR ELDERS OR DID WE MOUTH OFF AT OUR PARENTS OR GRANDPARENTS. TODAY EXCUSE MY MOUTH BUT I GOTTA GET THIS OFF MY CHEST WE ARE NOW PUNKS TO THIS SYSTEM WHERE WE CANNOT DISCIPLINE OUR KIDS UNLESS SOMEONE CALLS THE AUTHORITIES TO HAVE US CHALLENGE OUR PARENTHOOD. I REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER TELLING ME IF YOU CALL THE POLICE YOU'RE DEAD BEFORE THEY GET THERE AND YOU KNEW THEY WERE NOT PLAYING AND THEY SHOWED US LOVE WITH HUGS AND KISSES AFTERWARDS PLUS EXPLAIN WHY WE GOT OUR BUTTS WHIPPING. WHAT I HATE WITH A PASSION IS A KID THAT'S GONNA TELL YOU WHAT'S UP WHEN THEY HAVEN'T EXPERIENCED LIFE FOR WHAT IT IS. TODAY I HATE TO SEE A GRANDPARENT(S) WHO LET THE KIDS DO WHATEVER THEY WANT YOUNG AND KNOWING WHEN THEY HIT THOSE STREETS AS TEENS THEY TELL THEM TO FUCK OFF SO WHO'S WRONG? THIS IS EMOTIONAL TO ME BUT ON MY 21st BIRTHDAY MY COUSIN, NICHESHIA SEMPLE WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL AND THE HARDEST THING ABOUT IT WAS OUR FAMILY IS BASED ON RELIGION SO YOU KNOW TO HONOR YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER SO YOUR DAYS MAY BE LONG. THE WEEKEND SHE WAS KILLED I ACTUALLY HEARD HER TOTALLY DISRESPECTED HER MOTHER WHOSE CRIPPLED AND THOUGHT ABOUT JUST GOIN TO SOME PARTY. I REMEMBER TELLING HER THAT'S YOUR MOTHER AND YOU ONLY HAVE ONE IN THIS LIFE AND ALL SHE THOUGHT ABOUT WAS THE PARTY THAT NIGHT. I TOLD HER TO RESPECT MOMMA OR YOU GONNA REGRET IT AND THE LAST WORDS I SAID TO HER WAS, "DON'T LET ME READ ABOUT YOU IN THE POST" AND SHE SAID, YEAH COUSIN LELUND OKAY. MY FAMILY FOUND OUT ALMOST A MONTH LATER SHE WAS ONE OF THE YOUNG GIRLS WHO WAS KILLED DURING A RASH OF GIRL SNATCHING INVOLVING BALLOU HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IN D.C. AND THERE ARE SOME WHO REMEMBER IT BUT MY POINT IS WHERE IS THE DISCIPLINE AND HONOR THAT WE ARE SUPPOSE TO HAVE AS PARENTS. THE MAIN PROBLEMS IN ALL DISFUNCTIONAL HOMES IS NO TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THEY NEED TO BE TOLD THAT YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW AND THEY THINK THE STREETS AREN'T GONNA TAKE THEM OUT FROM NOT HAVING A DREAM.
LAST WEEK IN RALEIGH A 14 YEAR OLD TEEN WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD DIDN'T HAVE CANDLE VIGILS THAT ARE KNOWN WHEN A TRAGIC HAPPENS TO A CHILD BUT I'M NOT GONNA GO THERE BUT NOBODY TELLS THESE KIDS THERE LIFE EXPECTANCY IS SLIM WHEN YOU DISRESPECT THOSE WHO HAVE WALK AND EXPERIENCED THE CRAZINESS OF THE TROUBLED WORLD. SO TO ALL THOSE WHO THINK I'M WRONG WELL NAME ANY CHILD WHO EVER MADE A SUCCESSFUL LIFE OUTTA DISRESPECT AND LIVE TO TALK ABOUT IT. I FEEL WE NEED A BUNCH OF JOE CLARKS, TUPAC SHAKURS, MALCOLM Xs, AND EVEN THOSE WHO CELEBRATE MLK DAY DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE "LETTER FROM THE BIRMINGHAM JAIL AND WHAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT LAST SEVERAL LINES IN THE " I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH AND WE LIVING THE DREAM..........WHO ARE WE REALLY FOOLING OUR SELVES TODAY? I THINK WE TO DO A LOT OF LEANING ON OUR CHILDREN ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF HOW RESPECT CAN GET YOU ANYTHING IN THIS LIFE.
Courtesy.....Joyce's Dream Publishing.......Copyright 2008
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