But, au contraire, I would actually like to express my deepest of gratitude to you for how you have handled this entire situation. I took the liberty of checking out your Instagram and Twitter to see if you were one of “those” public figures; the ones who do too little with their privilege but expect the world to invest in their businesses and brands. And you passed the test! Not one stance. You’ve taken not one stance on the matter that has all of the Black Internet in an uproar. So, thank you for reiterating to us that if you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything. And oh boy have you fallen!
You’ve fallen for the white trap of thinking that doing nothing is actually doing something. You’ve fallen to the temptation of letting issues in Black culture be some other niggas problem. You’ve fell into the black hole of, as Charlamagne so eloquently wrote, “meaningless, stereotypical NBA news.” You’ve fallen for the stereotype of playing the white man’s game to make the white man’s money, loving the white man’s daughter just to leave your black identity behind. And you did it all while pretending that it was not your job to clarify to America whether Black beauty matters to you. Now, I’m not one who thinks that Black issues are every black man’s problem. I also don’t judge love, no matter its color or sexuality. I’m not grateful to you because you have gracefully fallen into either of those categories. Actually, I’m thankful because when Black issues gave you an opportunity to use your voice, you murmured and acted like we weren’t there. Who is this “we” who was at your door you ask. We, black chicks, the wodies, the queens who have been told time and time again that our beauty was secondary and that our lives were sacrificial. Thank you for continuing these ideals in your silence.
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When I began working on my business, so many deferred dreamers questioned my decision. Even today, I still have people predicting a future of failure. You must become determined to block the failures of your peers from making you think you too are bound to fail. At some point you have to boldly say, "No projections please!" Like a celebrity refusing to give up photo ops, you have to go into rooms with the perspective that you will not allow anyone to put their say on you life. If you have goals and dreams, be ready to protest other people's opinions on your life.
Bloggers often have to rejuvenate their sites. Life keeps us from sharing with our readers through busy schedules, tragedies etc. Many of us go about this by making a post apologizing and keeping the ball rolling. But as I looked at the time that was spent doing things outside of my blog, I realized that I was being robbed. My ability to write had been taken by the cares of this world. The experience of being arrested by my schedule, business and personal life gave me a choice: start a whole new way of living (that included SFB as a priority) or kill my blog altogether.
I thought of the men and women who may need whatever words that God would impart and I knew that closing the blog was not an option. So, I thought. God gives us power through the Holy Spirit. I know it is going to take the Holy Spirit to give me power to set aside time for this assignment. It is going to take the Holy Spirit to give me the creativity I need to write the stories, poems and essays. When I got the power of God the first time, I became a Born Again Christian. What better way to denote my choice to pick up this responsibility again than to call it the rebirth? Why Rebirth? Because I'm giving life to this purpose all over again; as if it were the first time. But this time, I'm doing it with the acknowledgement that it won't be in my power but in God's. |
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