black THOUGHT's

A little insight from yours truly.....

“Black Thoughts”

When the title Black Thoughts is said more than one idea can pop into your head. It could either be black thoughts such as death, or depression. When I say black thoughts I mean thoughts of an African American.

How we are perceived and what sometimes goes on through our minds.

Growing up in America black people are often perceived in many ways. In the past we were slaves and worthless, to great writers and musicians, threats to society, and educated people we are able to hold important positions such as President. Slaves were brought into America from the homeland Africa and forced to work on plantation fields. We were treated as animals but later freed and given a chance to live. During the Harlem Renaissance people such as Langston Hughes and Sir Duke gave African Americans a name with their creativity and liveliness with the words they wrote and the music that came out of the instrument they played. As time grew some Africans Americans begin to do things that were not good and out of their character using, violence, drugs as well as many other things with led them to being incarcerated. (To date most of the population of inmates is African American males. This is sad or maybe even ignorant.). But from there some of us grew with big dreams and in 2008 we made it possible that a man or woman, black or white can become President of the United States.

My question is were we really granted this opportunity or is that we just haven’t taken it? As an ethnicity are we making a god name for ourselves? These are the questions that are always in my head when I am judged because of the way I look and not by my actions. Sometimes I feel that a lot of the flaws within the African American can I fact be because of “the white man”. They are the ones who put us here, the ones who arrest and beat us down and the ones that tell us we will never be on the level they are on. But when thinking with my brain and not with ignorance the reason we are the way we are perceived is because we allow ourselves to be shrank into someone else’s standards and not our own. We as people need to stop blaming other people for our down fall. Like nobody made you sell that weed, and nobody gave you that gun. We always want to point the finger at someone else instead of pointing it and the real person to blame OURSELVES. Nelson Mandela once said “ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are POWERFUL beyond measures.” We have the power to do whatever we want with our lives and the choices that we make not only us but the people around us.

With that being said Black Thoughts for me isn’t anything dark or sad but it is a story about a group of people and the way they take on society.