Get Over It!

I haven't blogged in so long because I have become a Facebook junkie :)
I decided that I need the blog to say what I am about say.

Can any of  you articulate exactly what goes through your mind when Slavery, Jim Crow and Civil Rights are mentioned?
What do you think about some of the comments that have been made by the people who are running for political office in our country?
If you are not someone who descends from slaves or has been affected negatively by the color of your skin through racial profiling or stereotypes you might not understand the mental exercises that we have to adapt to in order to maintain our sanity.

I do know some folks who when Slavery, Jim Crow or Civil Rights is mentioned the first thing that goes through their mind is what has been deemed "The Race Card."
Because there are a people who lay every unfortunate act on race and then there are those who when race is the cause of the disadvantage or tragedy they will ignore the role race played completely. 

Some are actually selective in their use of ethnicity like claiming to have black friends and not being racist but accusing all black people of voting Democratic as if on a plantation.
This would be the opinion of some in the boot strap group who left that plantation years ago, yet they got the premise of voting Democratic if you are black as slavery from their master's.

Some steer clear of the phrase " Race Card" in order to be perceived as politically correct, they will point to the upwardly mobile group of African Americans and say,
 " This group of Negroes hasn't been affected by slavery to the point of poverty and destruction, they have pulled them selves up by the bootstraps, were raised right, paid their own way through college, aren't asking for a hand out, they bought their home debt free, were married before they had sex and  are heterosexual" therefore racism surely is not the cause here.
REALLY?
This is the group who would suggest that your life would be a lot better if you would simply give and forgive.
And forgive to them means don't ask any questions or mention it any more.

I believe that your life is better when you forgive but I don't believe that your life is better when you forget.
Forgetting that a man put in a position of authority abused that position only lays the ground work for him to abuse that position again and it be forgotten, again.

I don't believe that your life is made better by forgetting that a young man with a bright future was murdered, I don't want to forget that.
Our lives are better when we remember.
When you remember the people who were beaten, dragged and died so that you would have the right to vote.
I don't mean be depressed I mean remember.
Remember the One who died so that you could be free.
When you remember the people whose homes were bombed and heads were beaten in so that you could eat in a public place, live and work in any place that you could afford, go to a public school, ride public transportation, walk down a public street.
When you remember the women who have been ostracized and slandered so that you could maintain the rights over your own body and it's functions.
When you remember the people who were fired and excommunicated so that you could earn a living wage and collectively bargain. 
When you remember the people who stood up for you when those who were against you thought you didn't have a friend in the world, this is how you can forgive.

Forgiveness is the one who the attack was launched against realizing the attack is launched out of fear, envy, anger, arrogance and ignorance.

Forgiveness certainly doesn't mean forget.
So to speak, teach or remind about Slavery, Jim Crow or Civil Rights doesn't mean that we are not over it, because we have overcome it.
Those who seek to dismiss Slavery, Jim Crow and Racism as a mere footnote have failed to overcome it and their theory is that if we would Just Get Over It the way that they want us to, they could get over it too.
This is something that many would rather not address and or think about because it warps and tarnishes the doctrine that relies on the founding fathers as led by the divine.

Do your self a service if you are a part of the "Get Over It" mindset because forgiveness is not your message.
Get over the fact that these things will always be talked about and they will be taught in context and in their entirety because it is necessary.

Do your self another service and stop trying to rewrite American history, omit Black history and redirect people away from the truth as studied and recorded by renowned scholars like Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Do your self a service and turn from fabricated history that repaints the dark past and veils the repeating of it in this present day. 

The study of and the discussion of the truth in our history doesn't produce a hard unforgiving heart like some would like you to believe, but the attempt by men to deny the truth and to erase it from our records does produce a hardness.
A hardness that won't allow  fabrications to go forth in the place of actual events.

Lesson: It is not necessarily forgiveness that is desired but what many seek after is to be agreed with to the point of you overlooking in them what they will not overlook in you, and their desiring the permission from you to commit the crime or offense over and over again.

They want you to" Get Over It!" they don't want to be forgiven because that would require that they acknowledge that they have taken part in something that would require forgiveness.
This is the mind of The Neo-Con as witnessed in the media with young women being called sluts and prostitutes.
This is how a man can pursue an unarmed teen and shoot him dead at point blank range for no reason at all.

Get Over It?
A man or woman who seeks forgiveness, seeks forgiveness and a man or woman who simply wants you to get over it, simply wants you to get over it.

Forgive
Don't grudge.
Don't hate.
Don't Get Over It.


Love Y'all :)