What’s
really good people?
Yup;
starting to get that old feeling back again yall and the “P Man” must keep this
thing going. ALL Da WAY – No DELAY noni. Football season officially kicks-off
tomorrow and it is time for my Liverpool Football Club (LFC) to deliver a
trophy o. YNWA! In other news this suicide & depression thing is serious
people. I don’t like when life drama only make news because some celebrity fell
victim in the game of life. I have been a proponent of getting help when facing
demons that seem insurmountable to overcome since the inception of my blogspot.
Please talk to somebody, listen to music or go out on a drive when you feel too
stressed. JUST DON’T GO KILL ITSELF.
(S/O) Happy B-Day to my Kool Keed BILO!
(S/O) To Naija’s Under 20 women’s team in the World
Cup. Best of Luck Girls.
(S/O) To all of the viewers, followers & readers
of the MY OMO NAIJA blogspot. Thank you for your continued support. Love iz
Love! P
Ok
people; let me get focused…
By
now you all have seen the disturbing news coverage of the incident in Ferguson,
Missouri consisting of protesting, looting and violence after the shooting of
an unarmed African American teenager by a on duty police officer. Typically
when incidents such as these happen in America everybody in the black community
is in an uproar for justice and the media capitalizes by running the same news
coverage of looting, chaos and rage repeatedly to the point you become numb to
it all.
The
only person that can remotely come close to sharing or telling you what that
young man experienced that night before he lost his life is another BLACK MALE.
Black boys have always been a target of law enforcement all of our lives, some
encounter the police for the first time before they become teenagers. A Black
man and a white cop is like Dennis Rodman & Korea, texting & good
judgment, congress & approval ratings and Nigerians & South Africans, all
these things that just don’t go together.
It’s
a shame that the young man lost his life this past weekend but his now
remembered more for stealing than being senselessly gunned down by a police
officer. This is the America I know too well in recent memory, the America in
which it is open season on black boys and men the minute a pilgrim can justify
feeling threatened or unsafe. But we all as Black men also play a role and
should feel a sense of responsibility in the state we have put ourselves in
too. For someone to value your life, you must value yours’ first. In order to
command respect, one must give the respect.
The
subsequent actions of everybody involved after the killing will not bring him
back. The coverage by the media will continue to be well crafted so the fury
and rage can continue in order to boost their ratings. Young black boys will
continue to portray the wanna be life of a gangster, thug and the cool
lifestyle of the “uneducated negro”.
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