February Is Over... Does That Mean Honoring and Respecting Black People Is Over Until Next Year?

 I know this post is lonnnnnnng overdue (life got in the way)... but, hey better late than never right?! Right! Even though it is late, I still believe it is a great message to share! Therefore keep scrolling if you want to know what I mean by this title!! :)


Ok, so Black History Month is officially over until we meet again next year. If there is one thing I have learned this year, Black History Month of 2016, is that we should not wait once a year in order to celebrate and honor those tied with black culture. It is funny because Black History Month is a beautiful yet, questionable time of the year. A wise person once said to me, that it is basically bulls** how blacks have come this far yet, are only given one month out of each year to be recognized and acknowledged... After this person expressed this to me it made me think and realize that he had a reasonably good point. Why is it that The United States of America paves this path of life, equality, and freedom when in all it's a path of confusion, delusion and treachery? I mean do not get me wrong we have as country come so far, there's no doubt about it at all. But, what I'm saying is why is it that when Black History Month rolls around, we pretend and seem to forget what has happened within black culture just moments before that? Such as, young black men getting shot down in the streets, by white policemen, for no reason. Simultaneously, when that happens all the public can do is jump to conclusions or try to find a way to justify the police's actions by condemning and inferring that the young black boy must have been a drug dealer-if he's walking the streets late at night with a hoodie. Instead, of thinking that he was probably walking home after work, innocently hanging with friends, or even on his way after a night of studying. Or that the young black boy must have been carrying a dangerous weapon because he was reaching for his pockets, when in fact he was probably trying to show them his bus pass or school ID. What about that teenage black girl who was attacked and dragged by a white policeman in her classroom while sitting down because she would not get off her phone...? I recall Ms. Raven Symone basically defending the white officer by making a statement such as, "You gotta follow the rules in school. First of all, why are there phones in school? The list can go and on. The point is that when and at what time in our lives, in American History and in overall society, will we be able to grow past these ignorant and presumptuous remarks/assumptions/generalizations towards a race, gender, and religion? (I know as humans that we have all made the mistake by making generalizations or ignorant remarks!)

Not to disregard all the growth we have done from slavery to the civil rights movement and everything in between. We have made tremendous growth! But, it seems as if that growth has been taken advantage of. My question is what/who gives society and people the right?



Xoxo!