What happening to us? It has become evident that the norm is to criticise and ridicule each other. My week started as normal week, I came to and logged on to my favorite hoping to get my daily dose of escapism. That was hardly what I found. I was confronted with what may seem, according to me , the harsh reality that we as colored folk cannot get along.
Admittedly I am not to blame, I jumped right in and got involved in the whole mix. Something that I am not accustomed to. Debating something on an intellectual or even tactful level seems to have seriously been discarded. This behaviour carried on for most of the day but did not end there, NOOOO, it continued with the days to come.
I was disgusted with myself, because, that is not who I am. I was disgusted with the way I was acting. With each post, the fire was growing, people seemed to become more and more aggitated with each other. If we were all in one room,I am sure a brawl would have ensued.
Sitting hear and thinking about the weeks events, I cannot help but wonder how many of us have actually realised how childish we were. If an outside observer were to log on at that time to learn about BO's, what message were we sending? Were we living up to the sterotype that is BO's?
The violence happening in 'Cyber Space" coupled with the speech made by some minister got me thinking. We live in a violent society, what is it that our kids are going to learn from us? Are we gona teach them that if a fellow BO looks at you "skeef" then they are a "teef" or "thief" or even looking to lock horns with you. To see who actually is the Alpha Male.
Unfortunately, I have to go ... but will continue this when I return.
but hey...let's hope things slowly change & i guess the only way we'll ever achieve that is by trying our utmost to be the change we want to see
cheerio
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