Monday, August 8, 2011

The Cries of the young Black Man

To be a black man in today's world is to see life in a condescending point of view.  How can life be this way where everyone doubts you or criticizes you?  You are the one that is unemployed and Lazy, the one that is carrying around diseases, the same one that is a gangsta and violent towards everyone.  All the statistics are against you and the news media loves any story with you being portrayed as the bad guy.  You can't even go anywhere without people staring like you are about to shoot up the whole place.  You can't even walk to your car in the parking lot without some white or Asian woman jumping in their car and locking the door as quickly as possible.  Most of the problems we face as young black men are caused by some of us but there are still those who are educated and never been arrested and are not baby daddies or gangstas, but yet we are subjected to the same harassment everywhere we go.  Coming from  a black Man, it hurts to be treated like this just because of the color of your skin and something has to be done or else our children will grow up and quickly see that no matter how they try to be successful, they will be perceived as negative people.  


Any ideas?  Nothing is too little and this is only the beginning of the discussion to change the way the world views us.