Self Hatred and the Children

No wonder then as we compete in this world against the increasingly confident and self assured counterparts that we lose and resort to the self-hating and self-destroying black on black violence, which takes place disproportionately in this country.

It is easy for us to hate our complexion, our kinky natural hair, lips, and our backsides and hating black men, if we are black women and hating black women if we are black men. All the while we claim that we love everyone. But we don’t, cause we don’t love ourselves. We hate ourselves and have been taught to, generation after generation. It’s almost become the fabric of our culture.

Hating oneself is the ultimate recourse to the lazy. It requires little to no effort. It is far harder to build institutions, schools and businesses. Rather than continuously carp on about not having what you need, when by your actions you have produced the conditions that you now suffer in. I speak here not as right-wing politician telling its constituents to pull themselves up by their bootstraps but one that loves and cries to see the level of ignorance and stupidity. It is one of the greatest modern tragedies of this world. Shame on us for not doing what is necessary so that our children can hold their heads up high. Shame on us for allowing our music and culture to be high-jacked by pirates, pimps, prostitutes and players, as they siphon the money into the black hating corporations which feed poison to our children. Shame on us!! As we run away from being black to suburbia and then complain as our neighbours don’t want to know us. Shame on us!

The solution of us lies with us. It is in us and through us that our condition can be improved and only through us that victory can be achieved. The victory of a better life for our children and children’s children, children, that’s why I write.