Distractions

Ok so I get it now…. Solange attacked Jay Z in the elevator because she is convinced that He and Bey are the Illuminati and are ultimately responsible for the Malaysian plane disappearance. Really though they had nothing to do with the plane because – that was all Don Sterling. Meanwhile Mimi was trying to show Nico what happens when a plane sinks in the bathtub.. and well that went left. Mayweather got a hold of the tape and was trying to get decorating tips and naturally needed a womans opinion so he reached out to Tiny by mistake of course. He really meant to call Miley Cyrus, but it pissed T.I off and he hit him…. after enjoying a cheeseburger and some Patron on ice …. none of the above mentioned parties have seen any of our missing girls though.

For Our Daughters

 

There is a thief in our community
But he’s not taking our material things
He’s snatching the bodies of our little girls
The minds of our princesses
Taking their innocence and replacing it with
Promiscuity
Teaching them about sexiness
Far too young

10 years old and across the butt of her jump suit reads juicy
But her mama pants say “Hottie”
So in her eyes it has to be –
just what women do

There is a thief in our community
Teaching our daughters how to grind in the clubs
how to dance like the girls in the videos
turning their smiley faces into nasty text messages
And freaky twitters
Cell phones full of sexy pictures
And she still sleeps with a teddy bear and a night light on

This thief is luring our children away
Even when we are present
And now 12 year old girls are being traded and sold as sex slaves
Snatched off the streets on the way to the bus stops
Out lines drawn on sidewalks aren’t for Hop Scotch
She’s been gone since November
The latest victim-
taken from the man’s house
The one that she met on Craigslist
( He said that he could make her rich)
Didn’t tell her turning tricks
And now her face is nearly famous-
shared on newfeeds and flyers discarded in junk mail.

Somebody’s convincing our daughters that being a virgin is a bad thing
And that having casual sex at 13 is the in thing
so by 17 she’s a sex fiend
but no red flags are waving because she’s nearly 18 and on paper that makes her a woman
who’s supposed to know all there is to know about life
about love
about men
or what to do when –
someone breaks her heart
or takes her dreams away
shatters her dignity
or negotiates her virtue
Someone has to stop this predator from hurting our babies, killing our mothers, raping our sisters, stealing our nieces- pimping our daughters

Where are their fathers?
Someone has to be their father!
There is no covering in our community-
Where is the accountability
For what’s been happening
While our men sleep, or work, or die –
Or vanish into thin air
We place flowers on memorials
Carry pictures in our pockets
Pin red ribbons to our lapels
Moan in the midnight hours
Like our grandmothers taught us

Go and warn the town the beast are loose!
And they’re coming through the radio
Seeping through our iphones
showing their faces on the t.v
Pictures in the magazines
Appearing at award shows
Dripping in platinum and gold
Making money off your little girls innocence

My God, let us stop this foolishness
Let us remove this destructiveness
Rebuild our fortresses
So that our children can play as children
And our daughters can bloom in peace.\

12-30-09

Undercover Cops Shoot And Kill 16-Year-Old Boy In New York City

Kimani Gray. Another 16-year-old unarmed Black youth gunned down by the cops. This is heart breaking. It is always heartbreaking. I hear the people in New York are angry, rioting in the streets even. We hear about these tragedies all the time. We see dramatizations in movies and on episodes of Law and Order.  We should stop watching those movies and stop looking at those episodes when they come on our weekly scheduled shows on television. Maybe then we will weep when it happens… we should never be desensitized to senseless murder.
I hear the people in New York are angry, rioting in the streets even. We should all be angry… all of our heart(s) should weep. “How dare they take from us this way? Take from themselves even. Pluck another fruit from our garden!?!? We are one…. we have to treat one another better. We are one.

via Undercover Cops Shoot And Kill 16-Year-Old Boy In New York City.