In the Case of Donald Sterling....Was Justice Served

Well it has been a very crazy few days in the world of the NBA.  This pass weekend,  the owner of the LA Clippers was heard on tape making racist comments toward black people.  How was this convo heard one may ask? Well his side chick recorded the convo  and then released it for the world to hear it. In this tape, he was heard telling his side piece that he did not want her to be seen with black people or wanted black people at his game. The professional sports world went in to a craze.  To think that a 80 year old white man, who is a billionaire,  did not want blacks at his team games was must have been a huge shocker to them. *Insert sarcastic voice*

After this convo was heard, an uproar was heard. People took to social media to declare their opinion to this issue.  From snoop dogg/lion to the everyday person, one thing was universally agreed upon; Donald Sterling had to go. People knew that he would get in trouble, but no one knew the extent of his punishment.  Everybody want him to be suspended indefinitely,  but ultimately his fate rested upon the hands of the NBA commissioner. Boy he did not disappoint with his ruling on the matter. Yesterday, a press conference has held to disclose the fate of Mr. Sterling. The result was as followed;  Donald is banned for life from the NBA,  has to pay a 2.5 million dollar fine, and will eventually be forced to sell the Clippers. When I first heard about this, I was happy. By doing this, the NBA has stated that it will not stand for/be associated with any form of discrimination, no matter who or where it comes from. After a while, I began to really think about this whole situation. When I finally got a grasp of what had happened and who was involved, I thought to myself "Did he really get punished or did he get a tap on the hand?"

Donald Sterling is a billionaire, and he is 80 years old. Now let's look at his punishment. He is banned for life from the NBA, has to pay a 2.5 million dollar fine, and will eventually be force go sell the Clippers. This man is 80 years old, not 40 years old. What good is banning a person his age going to do? Now I not wishing death upon no one, but at his age, how much longer until his becomes worm food. STRIKE 1. He is also required to pay a fine of 2.5 million dollars,  the maximum fine under the NBA rules.  Now that make seem like a lot of money to us, but once again, this dude is a freaking billionaire. What is 2.5 million really going to do to him? Nothing at all. That is chump change to him. He probably makes that in his sleep. STRIKE 2. Last but not least, he eventually will be forced to sell this team. The key world in that last sentence is EVENTUALLY. As pointed out by a great friend of mine, until he is forced to sell this team he will be still be making money via both ticket and merchandise sell. Since we don't know when he will sell this team, let's assume that his bank account will continue to increase. Then when he does sell the team, he will still be getting money from the sell. STRIKE 3. If you looking at it from this angle, Donald Sterling is really getting a early retirement with service pay.

At the end of the day, who willing got who? I mean it is a great thing that the NBA did something about this.  It also great that Donald got exposed for the person that he really is.  This isn't the first time that Donald gotten in trouble for his racist ways. With all of that being said,  all of this punishment will not affect Donald in one bit. Yes we lost money and the hate from a lot of people, but you have to remember that he is a old racist billionaire that is set in his ways. He doesn't have to work for the rest of his life if he doesn't want to, and this punishment doesn't solve the issue here which is discrimination. No amount of punishment,  loss of reputation, or lost of money will change what a person wants to believe. Donald is just one of many people with the same position of power/money that share the same viewpoint. The only difference is the other billionaires had it better, and don't have a side piece recording them. So was justice really served? Well ladies and germs, that is for you to decide. That's the end of another post people. As always live, be great, and do dope shit.

Four Day Weekend PT 2; Adventures in the A

Ok ladies and germs, we are once again. Now as promised, I will cDamnntinue the tale of a epic weekend that the young king, aka myself, had in Atlanta. If you haven't read the first part of this story, I suggest that you do that like right now. Part one just was my exprience of the Childish Gambino concert through my eyes. Now part two is the recap of the rest of my epic weekend in Atlanta. Now for this installment, I will be breaking it down by each day. Depending on how how long this post is, I may just have to break this post down into two post. With that being said, grab a snack, a drink, a good sit, and enjoy the epic recap of my weekend.

FRIDAY
After I got a some sleep, I woke up about 9 in the am. I do not understand why I got up that early on my day off, but that is neither here or there. As always, I said my prayers, got some water, and checked what was going on with the world. As i was slipping on some H20, my homie Travon got up. We talked for a quick second before he got raedy for work. About an hour later, he got his skateboard and rode his way onto work. Now at this point, I am the only one who is up in the whole house. I decied to go back tos leep at this point, but that was a fail. So there I was, just playing games on my phone, waiting on someone to wake up. About 11:45 am, folks started to get up. As the house echoed with the sounds of music, espn, and random movies, I decide to get up.After I got dressed, I listened to my favorite morning radio show The Breakfast Club via Youtube. As i am listening to this, one of the roommates and I have a convo about the show.  After that went off, my stomach started growling. At that moment, I knew it was time to eat.

While deciding on what I was going to eat, I asked one of the roommates about places to eat. At first , I was just looking for for a subway so I went have to spend much money. He suggested I go to a burger place called Five Guys. They have one back in my town. but I never been to one. So after I decide what I going to eat, I get dressed and get ready to leave. Before I leave, I ask everybody did that want?need anything while I was out. Everyone said no, so I about to leave the house. As i head to the car, one of the females gives me five bucks, ask me to pick her up a drink, and "females hygene products." Now I have the most confused look on my face, like why she wants to get this stuff but I didn't say anything.  With the the additional quest, I headed out to get my eat on. 

I got to Five guy's and I scanned the menu for something to eat. I need up girl tying the regular cheese burger and a medium fry. All of that cost almost 10 buys. YIKES!!!! After I got my food, I head to target for part 2 of the quest. Now getting the sprite was no problem.  The "female product" was the tricking part since I never been shopping for is like that before. I didn't know there were so many options for that stuff.  Since I didn't know what to look for, I went to look for someone that worked there for help, preferably a dude. Unfortunately I had no such luck,  but I eventually I found what the girl wanted. Now here goes the part I dreaded the most; going to the check out line. Once again I was looking for a guy cashier but, once again I had no such luck. I head to the female cashier for the most awkward ,minute of my life. To make things worse, or girl didn't have enough money so I need up putting in the rest.  Do you think I got reimburse? So after that, I go back to the spot, drop off her stuff and enjoy my five guys. Man I had a mouthganish eating that. Then after I finish eating, I called my homie and then I was off onto my next adventure. 

I got to my homie house after been lost for about five minutes. We take for a quick second then we each took a shot.  After about a hour of chilling,  we got on the road to head to a place called Jack's.  When we got there, I was amazed with the place. It looked like something straight off of the original teenage mutant ninja turtles movie. There was graffiti everywhere, good music playing in the background, and all shorts of people there. The vibe Of The Place Was full of positive energy and awesomeness.  We ordered our food. It was a Friday so you can get a 40oz and a slice of pizza for under 7 bucks. That's my kind of deal. There we were, eating pizza, drinking 40s, and taking pictures for instagram. Then afterwards,we both got a shot of tequila. In this moment we were truly living b life to the fullest. We paid our bills then it was back to her house.  After a quick stop to the bathroom,  we said our goodbye and then I was off to the next destination. 

After about 25 minutes of driving, I get to my friend's place in stone mountain. When I knocked on the and he opened up,  the first think that came out his mouth was "Damn sted, you lost weight. After you on drugs or something?" Keep in my that I haven't seen him in about two years.  When he said that, I started laughing. So while I was there we started catching up and watching tv. He brought out some liquor so we drank that while discussing various topics from comcast to marvel movies. This lasted for about two hours before I got back on the road. Before I left,  I got something to eat, said my goodbye, and headed to the place I was staying at.  

I got back to the spot and I just chilled for a second. After my friend got home from work,  we talked for a quick second, then it was time for me to get ready to head out. After I ironed my clothes and took a shower,  I said my goodbye and headed out for a night on the town. I get to my destination around 11:50, and the first person I see is yet another one of my friends. Before we head in the club, we had to pay for parking. Atlanta,  imma need yall to longer parking prices because 20 bucks is insane.  It's now 11:56 and we get outside of the party. Now because I thought ahead, I got in the party for free before 12am. With 30 seconds to spare and some help from another one of my friends, we got in there free.

We head in club Privve, and it was jumping.  I look around and I saw a few people celebrating their bornday. I also saw a female having what seem to be a bridal party. With in the first 30 minutes of being in there, I have my first of three drinks of the night. Throughout the night, the music was jumping, the ladies was looking nice, and people were getting there dance/two step on. The atmosphere of the place was amazing,  and the energy was in another level. As my time in the club continued, I saw yet another one of my friends. We start catching up, and talking about old times at Fort Valley State. Half way during the club night,  we get in V.I.P. selection where I spend the rest of my time at. I get my other two drinks, and at this point I just start getting my two step on. I meet back up with my friends and hang with them until the end of the night. After the club ends, I said my goodbyes to my homes and head back to my friends house. I get there, take a shower,  and go to sleep. 

All in all, this day was EPIC. It was definitely one for the record books. I saw some friends, get my drink on, and just lived life. Nothing could have made the day better. Well folks,  I didn't expect of this post to be soo long. So I guess I have to make a part 3 to tell yall what happened for the rest of the weekend.  Well folks, that is all for right now. As always live life, be great, and do dope dhit.

Four Day Weekend PT.1 Deep Web Tour

Ladies and germs, once again we are back at it. I am here to let a store, you are here to read it, and *hopefully* be entertained by it. In an earlier post entitled Live Your Life, I mentioned that I had taken a four day weekend and would talk about it later. Well people, the time has come. Now my weekend was so awesome, that it would not do yall, or my experience, any justice by trying to compressed that into one blog. In light of this, I will break this down into two parts. Now I will get into the bulk of my weekend in part 2. For this part, I want to focus on the main reason why I went down to Atlanta for that weekend: To attend the Childish Gambino Deep Web Tour. 

On thursday afternoon, I went to get a rent a car. Usually I get a Nissan but they did not have one so I went with a Mazza 2. I went to the house, packed up my clothes, got some food in my gut, and got on the road, Before I actually got on the interstate, I went to the mall, went to Radioshack, and saw about getting an audio jack. Now for some reason the one I had got thrown away, but I had got insurance on it. Lucky me right? Well unfortunately for me, it did not cover lost/stolen products. Sigh, the struggle is real. I ended up buying a new one. After all of that, I hoped in the car, plugged up my ipod, and got on that interstate.

Now I am on the interstate on my way to Atlanta. It was hot as hell outside so I had the windows rolled down and shit starts flying all out the window. After I got the window issue figured out, my drive went smoothly. On my way down there, I was jamming to Because of the Internet by Childish Gambino. As I am listening to this album, I begin to really get into the songs. I mean I had  the audio system fully blasting, head just bobbing and a little fist pumping in the mix too. I bet the other drivers was looking at me like "What is that ninja in the car doing?" I really did not care because I was just living as usually.

 After about an hour and a half, I got in Atlanta around 3:45 pm and I was greeted by that Atlanta traffic. That was so not the move at all. When i got out off the god awful traffic, I got to the parking lot only to be told it cost to park there. As I began to look for the nearest gas station to get some cash, I got lost. After a good ten minutes of just driving around, I finally find a gas station. I go in, get some cash, drive back and finally got to park. Boy did it feel great to get out of that car and just walk around. Now the concert offered a shuttle bus to the concert, so I hopped on that bus along with the other people. The people on the bus was so diverse. Any and everybody was there. This was only a sneak people of who was going to be at the concert. When we got the the venue where the concert was been held at, it was packed. Everyone from all walks of life was there. There was even some people that was the age of my mom and grandparents. While we were waiting to let in, we could hear Childish Gambino doing his sound check. He was singing a few songs off his album, and he was singing a few Michael Jackson songs. While listening to this, the first thing that pops in my mind is "This concert is going to be EPIC!!!!"

After a hour and a half, they stated letting people into the venue.  As the people were going into the outside concert, the crowd started chanting "WORLDSTAR, WORLDSTAR, WORLDSTAR. WORLDSTAR."
When I into the area that was holding the concert, the first thing I see is the stage .On the stage were the instruments, a couch, a two chairs, and plenty of alcohol. Since the concert didn't start right away, I went and got me some pizza and a beer that the venue was selling. As I go into the crowd, all you can hear are the people taking about how they can not wait for Gambino to hit the stage. The crowd got restless as they were waiting for the concert to start. "WORLDSTAR, WORLDSTAR WORLDSTAR!!"  As the chants grew down, out of no where, a poptart hit the guy next to me in the face. Before you know it, more poptarts was thrown into the crown. Now while this was happening, I was thing "Please do not let one hit me in the face." Then next thing you know, folks start throwing water bottles . The energy was crazy, and people were having a ball while all this was going on.

About 7 pm, a DJ came to the stage. I guess was the warm up to the main show. When he got to the stage, he introduced himself and gave a little background info about himself. He was from Chicago, and he is the personal DJ for Chance The Rapper. When he said that, I was for certain that Chance was going to come to the stage. Sadly, this was no the case. After he got the crowd hyped up, he started doing his thing on the wheels of steel. When I said he was playing any and everything, he really played everything. He played songs from Rock with You by Michael Jackson to Knuck If You Buck by Crime Mobb. Some of the songs he played I had not heard since I was In college. While he was playing these songs, the crowd got really into the set. They were singing the words of the song, and  they were dancing. During his performance, he played a 90s set, a Kanye West set, and a Michael Jackson set. While this was all good, people wanted to see the person they came to see. When the DJ got off the stage, they started to put up the screen for the show. After that, it seem like it took for ever for the tech guys to get the projections lined up. After all of that, after the long wait time, at 8:10 pm EST, Childish Gambino finally graced the stage,

When Gambino got on stage, the crowd went wild. Everybody pushed to the front to get a better view. The once comfortable space I had quick went away. At that point, I knew how it felt to be in a can of sardines. I did not have no room at all, but I did not care. The person I came to see had finally hit the stage, and I knew I was in  for a epic experience. Before he started, he thanked everyone for coming out to the show. Then, the show began. As he was dress in a black sweatshirt and some above knee shorts, he rocked the crowd. He performed all of the songs form Because of the Internet. During his performance, the digital background changed to make the mood and the song he was doing. In between sets, they would be a digital skit as well. The was hype throughout his whole performance, but to me, they were the most live when Gambino performed Sweatpants, 3005, The Worst Guy, and the Worldstar. My favorite song song he performed was Pink Toes. During the performance, his crew had brought some females to the stage, and they began to drink while enjoying the show. While he was performing, Gambino truly looked like he was having as much fun as the crowd was. He was laughing, jumping around, and dancing throughout the show. He was giving the crowd as much energy as we were giving him.

After he preformed the last song off the album, he gave the 4000 people an encore. He would perform hits from his first album as well as song from his mixtape. One of the most memorable part of the encore is some random chick threw her panties on the stage. Gambino asked who threw these on the stage and when the girl reveal herself, he said "They smell good by the way." The crowd went wild, and I was thinking, "Look at this ninja here." After he was done,  the crowd chanted "ENCORE, ENCORE." At this point, you can see that Childish is tired and he is almost on E. Somehow, he did one more encore. It was like the crowd chanting his name gave him all the energy that he needed. He brought another rapper on the stage, and together they had a freestyle session. He was spitting some mad rhymes, and the crowd was hanging on every word of it. After 6 minutes, Gambino thanked the crowd, and exited the stage.

When people realized that there wasn't going to be another encore, they started to leave the area. It took some time to get out of the gate. As I slowly walked towards the gate, I saw some Gambino shirts they were selling. I wanted to buy one of the shirts, but the price of those shirts stopped me from getting one. Near the exit, there was some music playing, As I turned towards the bridge that hovered near the exit, there was a band performing. They had colored smoke coming out, and they were having the times of their lives. When I was a few feet away from the gate, I heard someone call out to me. When I turned around, I saw my pal from college J REED. We caught up for a few minutes, exchanged numbers, and went our different ways.

 I left from concert grounds, and looked for the bus that brought me there. When the bus came and I got on, there were no more seats left on the bus. I though the driver would let me and the rest of the people standing off the bus. That was not the case as the bus took off while we were standing. As I was holding onto the seat is when it hit me why the bus driver always said "sit down while the bus is moving" back when I was in grade school. That was so not the move at all. We finally got to our cars, and I was on my way to my homie Travon crib. When I got there, I caught up with Travon, meet his roommates, and drank some more alcohol. I talked to the to females that were there for a while, and then went to bed.

All in all, this day was definitely one for the record books. I went to my first outside concert on this day. I got to experience an amazing concert, I was around a ton of positive/amazing energy, and I left with memories that will last with me forever. I would not trade this experience for all the money in the world. Well folks, that is all for this part of my weekend. I will tell yall how the rest of my weekend went in part two. As always folks, live life, be great, and do dope shit.

Live your life

Yesterday *it was supposed to be uploaded on Tuesday but apparently it wasn't* was my first day of work for the week. Now normally i work at least one weekend day out of the week, but not this weekend. I had requested, and got four straight days off. Originally, I just wanted to take off a thursday to go to the Childish Gambino concert but I thought about taking Thursday through Sunday. After thinking about, I just said fuck it and i just took those four days off. That was the best choices that I have made in a while. not going did I get four days off, I got to  experience new things, caught up with good friends, and just lived. Now I will go into details about my weekend in a later post, but for this one I just want to talk about the importance of living life.

We live in a world where the almighty dollar seems to be the most important thing to most of the world's population. The reason behind thins is you really can not do anything without money these days. in the words of method man, "Cash Rules Everything Around Me C.R.E.A.M." With money, you can bill your bills, put food on  your table, clothes on your back, invest it in the stock market, and save it for retirement.  The only way to gain/earn money is to work and/or hustle for it. For this fact, we see people working jobs they hate, doing illegal things, and working long hard hours to obtain money.  It seems like the only thing people do now a days is work. With the cost of living growing seemly everything day, no one can blame a person for choosing work over living live. At the end of the day, though, this can lead to problems down the line.

While working to make money/earning a living is all good, the one thing work can not give you is life/ memories, and those two thing are something money can not by.Have you ever met an older person that have said" Oh I wished I worked more?' Yeah, neither have I. We  have become so consumed with working that we forget to stop and smell the roses every once in a while.  We do not time the time to just relax and recharge our batteries. Working all the time can led to stress, and it takes time away from ;living your live. You do no waht to look back on life and all your life says about you is you were are a harder worker that never missed a day of work. To avoid this, you can do easy steps to ensure that you will live your life.

One sure fire thing every one can do is pick up a hobby. Whether its is building models, dancing, or painting, doing something that you like or interest you. Another way to live you live is try new things. Now this may scary at first, but you never know what you will like unless your try new this. You have to step outside of you confront zone every once in while to expend yourself. Another thing you can do is go out every once in a while. You can go to a a party, bar, or a club. No if these things do not float your boat, you can catch a move, sports event, comdeny show, open mic, etc.  There are a lot of things a person can go to and have a great time. You can go with you co workers to after work places, or just hang/catch up with friends. The most common easiest way to live life is to travel. Go to different cities,states, countries, and continents and see what lies beyond the place you call home. Fully dive into another culture, try mew things, and imere into new, different, and interesting things.

Now that we have gotten to the end of this post, let me say that in no way, shape, or form am I telling anyone to stop working. All I am saying is that there is more to live than just working all the time. Yes money is important, but at the end of the day, you can not take money with you when you die. Do not become so consumed with working that life is passing you by. Find the perfect balance between working and living so you can make money, h ave a career, and live life to the fullest. Take time to enjoy life each day, even if it is just for a moment. As always ladies and germs, live life, be great, and do dope shit.

Monday motivation: Dreams/Goals

For some reason, I felt the urge to take about dreams/goals this am. I don't know why, but maybe this is will be a part of somebody's process on their road to greatness and success.

In life, what do you want to do? What do you want to become? If money was not an option, what would you truly do in life? Do you have people that think that your dreams/goals are unrealistic and suggest that you "wake up" and live in reality? 

The reason why I asked all of these questions to make one point: FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS/GOALS. In today's world, it seems like the age of dreaming is slowing dying out. We have people who are not doing what they truly want to do in life. They are settling for a normal life when they are meant for much more.  You were not meant to life a normal life. You were created by the most high for amazing things, but you won't do these things by just playing it safe.

In order to follow your dreams/goals, you will go through a lot. I won't lie, you will have make a lot of sacrifices along the way. Sometimes it will seem like you maybe are wasting your time, energy, money, and life on something that is not either going the way you would like it or not getting the reception that you would like to have. People may/will tell you to give it on it. Hell there will be times that you will convince/talk yourself out of or continuing the road that is ahead.

No matter how hard things may seem, no matter what people will say, no matter how hopeless things may seem, DON'T GIVE UP. If following your dreams and making them reality was easy, everyone would do it. Nothing were having comes easy. It takes the bold, the brave, and the strong will to do this. Just think of every body who wa/is successful. Two things they all have in common is they didn't give up and they worked their asses of until want they wanted became reality. Even after their dream/goals come true,  they still work to keep what they have and gain even more.  They didn't quit before they even got started,  and neither should you.

If you didn't get nothing from this post, I just hope that you will at least think about I have said. If you have a dream/goal that you want to see come true,  then do it. Nothing or no one can stop you unless you allow them to. Dream dreams that no one had ever dreamed,  and then make those dreams and goals a reality. As I close this blog out, I will leave you a quote from the Oscar wining actress Lupita Nyong'o; "No matter where you are, your dreams are valid. " As always, live life, be great, and do dope shit.

The perfect day off

Well the birds out back, the bugs are biting folks, and the weather is FINALLY hitting up. You know what this means????? SPRING IS HERE!!!!!! Now usually I am not excited about spring, but this year I am. The reason why I am so happy spring because it has been a hard winter to say the least. It was super cold, it rained, the wind chill was crazy, and it snowed. Now for most people, they would be excited for the snow. Hell I was until the aftermath of the snow/winter storm. Now I live in the south so it rarely snows down here, but no one was ready for what the snow/sleet/winter storm would cause. Because of the snow/winter storm, the roads frozen over, ice was on the road, people were stuck in traffic for countless hours, and whole cities were shut down. Now that spring is here, we can say goodbye the cold/winter and embrace spring.

Now yesterday was the official first day of spring, along with being the international day of happy but more importantly, I had the day off. If you knew the ish I deal with at work, you will understand why I greatly look forward to my days off but that is besides the part. After i went to a job fair that was a totally bust,but after that, my day was perfect. It was around 1 ish when i felt that job fair and I was hungry. I was in the downtown area so I decided to grab something from there. I went to one of my favorite pizza places and got two slices of meat lovers pizza with mushrooms. Since the weather was so amazing, I decided to eat my lunch outside.\The sun was shinning, there was a little breeze in the air, and the people outside that were also enjoying their food was also enjoying their would while giving off positive energy. All of these elements combined set the stage for the perfect atmosphere to be in/around. That food was so good, a young dude like myself had a mouthgaism. Just thinking about the food is making me want some like right now. The food struggle is so real right about now.

After i spent my time outside enjoying lunch. I wanted to check out the local art museum. I had never been to this museum so you can image that i got lost trying to find the museum. After a good ten minutes of getting lost, I finally found the art museum. Now the museum wasn't that big, but want luck in size it made up in content. Before in get into the art, let me talk about the building for a quick minute. The museum is in an old warehouse. you can see the expose, and somewhat weathered look that gave the building character. When you walk inside, the wooden beams separated the museum into different sections. The inside had a high exposed sealing, and two semi big windows that gave a view of the outside while also letting in sunlight into the room. You can tell I watch HGTV a lit. Now the museum displayed pieces from local artist, as well as pieces that were brought by the museum. The pieces ranged from mixed media to watercolor art.The museum displayed work that was abstract art to realism art. Some of the pieces could even be brought. I did see a piece that I would like to own, but at $1000, that mixed media piece of art stayed hanging on the wall. Maybe one day that piece of art will be apart of my future collection.

After that, I really just stayed at the house. I talked to some of my friends, hanged with my family and jsu enjoyed the rest of my day.All in all, i had the perfect day. I really did not do that much, but I truly enjoyed my day.I think the only thing that could have made that day even better is if I could have share that with someone special, but oh well. As I sit here typing out my replay of yesterday, it jus makes me want another day like the one I had. For now on, once a month, I just going to go around the city and explore it. I  will go to different events, go to new restaurants, and discover new things. hell I make even take a mini road trip and just let the wind guide me along the journey. Well folks that about all of for my description of my perfect day. As always, live, be great, and do dope shit.

12 years a slave??? More like 300 plus years a slave

For today's edition of this blog, I going to talk about a somewhat touchy topic.  About a month and a half ago,  I was talking to my brother from another mother khris. We were talking about random stuff as usual.  As we were talking, we were talking about this blog and all kinds of stuff.  During this convo, he made a suggestion about how I should do a post about the Willie Lynch letter and to put it in today's time. Now I was going to do this sooner, but the idea got lost among the many other ideas running through my head.  So instead of putting it off until later,  I thought I will do it now. With all the things that happen in our culture, I couldn't have picked a better time to talk about this because in order to improve the future, you have to deal with the past and the present. 

Now whether this letter was real or not is up for debate. For the sake of this post, we going to say that this actually happened. Now little is known about Willie Lynch, or even if he was real, but what we do know is that he was a slave owner that lived in the West Indies that was brought over to America to help slave owners to better control their slaves. In 1712, Willie Lynch would deliver a speak along the James River, in the Virginia colony, that would affect African Americans of the past and their descendants. The  aftermath of this speech can still be seen and felt among African Americans of today.This speech would be forever known as the Willie Lynch letter.

Now for those who may have never read this letter before, here is a link to this letter. Take a few minutes to read and fully think about this letter. http://www.iupui.edu/~blacksu/PDF%20Documents/Documents/WillieLynchLetter.pdf  Now that you have read this letter, lets continue with the post at hand. What is the most interesting thing about this whole thing is that a lot of these this issues that were that was brought up in this speech is a lot of things that black people deal with in today's time. The ways that Willie taught the masters that he felt would  control the slaves can be summed up into three categories: distrust, a lack of understanding, and not knowing our value.

Now in the beginning of this speech, Wille talked about people going against one another. He talked about the young vs the old, light skin vs dark skin, and male vs females as one way of controlling us. He also mentioned how it was necessary for the slaves to love and depend only on the slave master. We see this played out everyday. One of the biggest vs that goes on with in the black community is the light skin vs dark skin thing, aka the dumbest thing ever. You can go on the internet and see various menes about light skin people be like, or dark skin people be like. Another thing that I see is the idea that light skin blacks are better looking than dark skin blacks. We also see males vs females played out. We hear females say that "niggas aint shit", and dudes say that "bitches anit shit." We also see that theres is a sense of drift between the old and the young generation. It is like the older generation sometimes forget that we are young, we going to be make mistakes on the way, and that they were once young, wild, and free. On the flip slide, the younger generation can learn a lot form the older generation as well. Instead of  thinking we know it all, just stop and listen to what the older people have to say because they could say something that may save you.

Now as far as the part where he mentioned that  it was necessary for the slaves to love and depend only on the slave master, I see this happening as well, but not in the way Willie might have pictured it. The way this happens in todays time is we really do not support our own race. We do not not support local black businesses, whether it be a drugstore, grocery store, or a car tune up place. It seems as we would rather spend our money else where expect for these stores. Now is this done on purpose? I do not believe so. What I believe the root of this issue is that we are so used to other business that we don't support our own businesses. I mean why would a person put there money towards something they do not know about rather than put there money towards a sure fire thing. As much as I see this trend happening, I also see this trend starting to die down. At least where I live at, I see people supporting these local businesses. Th major brand stores still pull in there money, but not as much as what they used to.

Willie would continue to state different ways of controlling slaves, but he would give a warning as well. He told the slave master of the danger of the slaves knowing the language that the slave master were using, but really, he was warning them about the slaves learning. If the slave learn, then the masters can not fool the slaves. The could figure things out, and that would end the slave system according to lynch. Another interesting thing that he said that the slave must forget their language. Now if one looks at this from face value, one can say the reason behind this is so the slave could be easier to control. If one looks deeper into this, one can argue that in order to control someone, you must make them forget were they come from. Why would you want for people to forget where they came from? Well before blacks were kidnapped and sold into slavery, we were a big deal. We were leaders, warriors, and royalty. We had power and were proud of our history. To take that away from the slaves, and break them down was the only way that the slave masters could gain control. A wise person once said "In order to know where you are going, you have to know where you come from."

Is the Willie Lynch speech/letter really happened. To be honest, we may never know. Some people will tell you that it is real, while others will say that it is just a myth. Whether it is real or not, the affects of this letter can still be seen and felt among the African American community. Although we are physically free, there are some who are still mentally bound. How can we break this cycle? to be honest, there is not a clear cut answer to this problem. There are, however, ways that can eventually lead to the solution to this. Two of this these are understanding where we come from, and knowledge. When you have wisdom and knowledge, the world is yours. No one can take that away from you. Then learn about your history. People like to say that we, as African Americans, have come along way. Well to those who say that, all I can say is that you have not looked back enough. We are the descendants of royalty. Once we start acting as such, people will start treating us as such. Thats the end of this post folks. As always, live life, be great, and do dope shit.