Wake Up Itches...

Ohhhh, Lawd have mercy, we all going to need to take a collective sigh.

So much stimulation going on, it's overwhelming.

If I did not have yoga, Lawd only knows I could be holed  up in here self-medicating on anti-depressants and bottles of vodka instead of marijuanna and wine.

Too much is going on all at once.  Hell since Obama's re-election in 2012there has been a visible crisis everyday.  The 300 hundred plus extra-judicial killings of black boys and men.  Beginning with Raymarley Graham, but gaining media attention with Trayvon Martin.  Snowden. Schools Closing. Syria. Government Shut down. Record breaking stock market. Food stamps cuts. Sequester. Stop and Frisk. Fruitvale Station.12 Years a Slave. Drones. Nelson Mandela. Beyonce. Rkelly. Cuts to Unemployment Compensation...

A lot has been going on.

There is an immediate need to take several deep cleansing breathes (the yoga teacher in me is coming out).  

Once we have collected ourselves, at once, we need to figure out what the hell is going on.  Right now there are too many analysis focused on individual politics.  All these things are separate entities that cannot be discussed  in tandem . One issue at a time.  We have to fully dissect one issue at a time, instead of seeing this madness as a whole body that needs triage stat!

Well this is unrealistic.  What we are dealing with is a disorder.  As described in "A Leader's Framework for Decision Making (Harvard Business Review - David J Snowden and Mary E. Boone) .  The Cynefin Framework is a logic model designed to explain complex, multi-faceted issues or challenges - or what the framework calls 'disorder'.  "Here, multiple perspectives jostle for prominence, factional leaders argue with one another, and cacophony rules. "

This precisely explains what we as the black community, are currently functioning in- a disorder.  There are too many issues that are overwhelming us; prohibiting us from dealing with  them individually.  On top of the most pressing issues like the killing of black children, the rabid unemployment, and a failed education system, we have to deal with the politics of respectability, of individual freedoms, of  internal self hate; that Fanon described, Kanye West, R Kelly Creflo Dollar, Barak Obama self hate.  (Its okay, breath through the discomfort)

We need to sit down and figure this thing out rationally.  Using logic, science, thought, spirit.  We are inundated by all these distractions and attacks at once and we are suppose to know how to deal with it? Lets be very honest.  The X-Genreation was appropriately named.  We don't know shit, except  for what the ruling class wanted us to know.  How many of us in grade school studied about Communism's role in the victory of the New Deal? How many learned about the Black Panther Movement and its 10 point plan, in school?  How many of us were taught that Dr. DuBois was an integrationalist who was half white?

Malcolm said it best, "We've been hoodwinked, bamboozled..."  We don't know shit about what is going on.

Did you know there was a militant wing of the ANC in South Africa that were training in Zimbabwe in the 1980's poised for a militarily strike against the Boar South African regime?  Did you know in 1985 the U.S. government dropped a bomb on its own citizens; in the city of "Brotherly Love"?

Of course we are utilizing valuable time and scholarly intellect on bullshit like Beyonce being a bad bitch.  Who cares!  Hell ever black and brown woman is a bad bitch.  That's what we do.  And to be completely honest, Beyonce is faux-chicken fries to the likes of Ramona and Pam Africa who walk through fire and call a mutherfucking pig and mutherfucking Pig to his face, after he's  knocked her two front teeth out of her mouth, while she was defending her man!!!!!

Y'all don't understand, but you are going to.  If it will be sooner, where you can be apart of the solution. Or later, when you are on the other side of history.

We are moving into the age of Humanity. The epoch of Europe has collapsed.  We are now in the between time, or as Baldwin eloquently defines, "the long meantime." The next 30 years will determine how the rest of the 21st Century will shape. In the same way, the first 50 years help determine how the 20th Century would be remember.

Lets take a collective inhale, together.  Regroup. Use logic and strategy to map out our plan. and exhale through the process of resurrecting humanity.