Brave

I’m here. I’m watching. I’m waiting. The silence is deafening. Answer question Jada Pinkett-Smith, and thousands of other people my color are asking. What happened to Freddie Gray? Credit Twitter & @jadapsmith While many media outlets ignored a week of thousands of people of all races and ethnicities peacefully protesting we kept asking that question. Remember everyone, including a suspect being arrested, has human and civil rights. This is America. We don't execute or beat people we are arresting. Doing so would put us in violation of our own laws. The head of the Fraternal Order of Police stated in an interview that "police don't want bad cops. They make our jobs dangerous." So why aren't you all answering this question? I watched, as administrators and politicians derailed, deflected and ignored the question. I’ve listened to the gaslighting of our people. I heard when peaceful protesters were called a "lynch mob" by one of those who...

My Dear Son, It is my maternal responsibility to counter misinformation regarding the meaning of today's holiday, the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther king surrounded by police and his wife during his booking, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 and those who led it. You are being told, that our first president George Washington, is the father of our country. You are being taught that he "could not tell a lie." President George Washington held slaves and allowed his wife to hold slaves on his plantation, Mt. Vernon. So our first president participated in the enslavement of your mother's people. President Lincoln is called the "great emancipator" of our people. Know that President Lincoln tried to use the emancipation proclamation, the declaration that the enslaved people on the plantations in the South were free, so that slaves would turn on their former masters and turn the tide of the civil war in favor of the North. So this president hoped to u...