Is it ok to be Black in America?

 

By Sharif Rasheed, Bethe1change.com,

When I started reading and researching after many years of being lied to in order to pacify me, I started to learn the truth. Not opinion, but actual facts. I was shocked because the majority of the education I received in high school led me down the wrong path. It led me to believe that everything was ok. So when I started to come into this knowledge and awaken I wanted answers. I became frustrated and mad. I was young and ready for action. I guess I would have been a panther if I had been born earlier. The one question I had, however, was “is it ok to be black in America?”

I always believed that separation is not inclusion and isolation is not equality. Eleven out of twelve months we are forced to be miseducated on European and American history. Lies about the declaration of independence not stating that blacks were 3/5^th human. Lies about how this country was discovered when Native Americans were already here. Lies about slavery and the true deception of it’s concept. Lies about Abraham Lincoln who “freed” Blacks. Lies about the case Brown vs. Board of Education ending segregation in the school system. Lies about civil rights truly benefiting black Americans. Lies about the march on Washington. Lies about the Black panther party being a threat to America. Lies about only the south being racist. Lies about equality and lies about a lack of positive images on television.

So if it is ok to be black in America then why is our history separated and not included with the rest of American history? Why do little black boys and girls have to do extra research to learn about people who look like them in Africa? And why do we have to embrace European traditions and customs to be considered American? If it was ok to be black in America I would not worry about being pulled over because I am in the “wrong” neighborhood at the wrong time. In the 21^st century we still have blacks on television promoting coonery to entertain racists. Black is so closely related to ignorance that the word ghetto is almost always associated with blacks. Why are black people afraid to be individuals and not pawns. The revolution was not televised because we turned off the television and started killing one another. I love being black and I am proud but why do I have to grow up in a society that allows this to happen? The time for a change is now. Be the change you want to see!