COLORED PEOPLE:
The STRIPES of Healing
Founding Statement:
This biweekly newsletter will seek to explain the pain and suffering mainly people of color endure through no fault of their own. The dehumanizing excuses our people always seem to elicit from people in power that make our Christian Brothers and Sisters accept their reasoning as if it was uttered by the Almighty. Lastly what I see with my own eyes begs the question from my conscience. “Are we loving or can we really love our neighbor as ourselves”.
Issue 17: A First for Black History Month Circa 2022
What events preceded the 1st of February 2022 in the long struggle of Black people in America. This digital edition is a look back and a celebration of how events in U.S. History unfolded and propelled Black people to these days in time. Fittingly it started with slavery and the wholesale dehumanization of Black people. It devolved from that fact to formalizing slaves as property and wholly subject to the rules of who owns them. Which enviably leads to the mindset that they can’t learn, think, or reason as did White men.
Oh we’re just getting started. Let’s fast forward to the 20th century and the struggle for inclusion into all parts of America. Black men couldn’t be scientists as that would require higher learning or ingenuity to bring ideas to life. The Black man that made peanuts into peanut butter. Black men were thought of as incapable of flying warplanes. I wonder what the judgment of that exclusion was. Huh? If Black men were believed to be lesser human beings then why experiment on us with Syphilis hoping that the results from the test subjects would be used to cure other human beings? Yeah that’s a contradiction if ever there was one.
A Black man couldn’t learn medicine to the point where he masters it and performs the first open heart surgery. Huh? A Black woman couldn’t develop the covid 19 vaccine? C’mon man, stop playing around. You know Black people can’t possibly understand the material let alone finish over a decade of schooling. A Black man sitting on the U.S. Supreme is ludicrous! No way in Hell he could possess the intelligence to become a scholar of the law. Impossible! Black people elected to every government office in the land of the free and the home of the brave. I’d say that was outrageous for anyone to even suggest a Black person has the capacity to craft laws and abide by them.
Oh my goodness a Black man will be elected President of the United States of America. Clutch your pearls evangelicals because it happened. Now I have another event to ask you to consider. A Black woman as Vice President of the United States. Get the ‘truck’ out of here! I need to get confirmation on this next possible stronghold to be destroyed at its base so it may topple down upon the heads of the despicable sewer scum shouting it. It is this notion that a Black woman couldn’t possibly comprehend what it means to be a Supreme Court Justice let alone know anything about the law. Black women of all women are incapable of even passing the bar exam to become a lawyer.
Listen to me, I don’t care what the haters say. Every lying conniving men stealing cradle robbing evangelical immoral scoffing politician have made known their thoughts about Black people for hundreds of years. What is different now? It’s the same ole stale regurgitated supremacy inferiority complex spued by a certain group of hateful and vile White people unable to hold Black people in check. It never worked. It stalled Black people for a while but like a thunderous wave coming ashore this Black woman nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court will knock down this new barrier just like Black people have been doing for centuries!
Haters keep talking and keep putting up your barriers. We’ll keep knocking them down!