REAL TALK

swagintherain:

“Say It Loud - I’m Black and Proud!”

James Brown

This post about my take on Kanye’s slavery statement has been blowing up my phone recently (not sure who reblogged it for that to happen) getting over 1,500 notes in the past two days and 600 new followers. And I just want to remind you all this is blog is a space for free thought, but above all things respect, rationality, objectivity, and understanding.

I’ve responded to the fair constructive feedback, different viewpoints, critical input, etc. But I’ve yet to respond to anyone simply saying stuff like “I’m unfollowing”, “you’re an idiot”, “fuck Coonye”, and the likes. Disagree all you want, being emotional will do nothing.

I feel this just reinforces my point in the sense that if we are to consider a life of slavery as a choice, one of the biggest barriers to freedom BY FAR is negative response from your own people when you’re giving them something they can utilize. Imagine it’s 1842; I’m on a plantation in Georgia and I tell a man “we can escape tonight, we don’t have to live like this”, and he tells me to fuck off. Crazy. The comments I’ve been getting are legit on some real life Boondocks / Catcher Freeman type shit. Mostly straw mans like how recently a guy compared my piece to “if a woman gets raped, that’s her choice because she didn’t fight hard enough.” Not even gonna go into why that is disrespectful to the WOMAN involved and not me, but I doubt half the people who responded negatively even understand what they’re trying to say, or have no clue how to properly word their statements to convey something rational. Or at least how to diss me without unintentionally dissing the subject of their response.

All I want y'all to know, and especially my younger generation, is that circumstances can’t necessarily be avoided, but the outcome of those circumstances can be changed.