Open Letter

[GET YOU HOT]

Sinead O'Connor published this letter to her website and I would like to know how we weigh in on it.

I respect her efforts...

If you hate black people, its yourself you hate. And the mother who bore you. If you kill or wish ill on black people, its yourself you kill and wish ill on.

http://www.smileyandwest.com/treyvon-letter-from-Sinead-O'Connor.pdf

 

[Mo-Better]

How can you not respect her effort. Some maybe unaware that she's always been socially and politically aware. This is the first time I'm seeing the entire letter part of it was posted on the main board. IMO that letter is fantastic and everyone needs to read it. The truth is the truth regardless of the source.

The fact this murder (that is what it is) has gained worldwide attention speaks volumes to what should be looked upon as a national disgrace. All the evidence has pointed to this being a murder. Yet this killer runs free. Everyone tied to this case should be burned in oil.

I do believe there's a purpose for what's going on and I don't like it at all. The fact this happened in a "RED State" leads me to believe there's a political agenda. We're being provoked to violence. Far fetched? Some newbie on the main board tested the waters on that theory today to get a vibe on where we stand. Because rioting under Obama would surely hurt his reelection bid. Trayvon's murder itself was not political but one must ask why this murder is being handled so poorly.

 

[GET YOU HOT]

Thanks for posting Mo, there is a whole lot of content in the letter. I will find the time to pick it apart this week and others join in this thread, please...!

 

[Mo-Better]

Thanks for posting Mo, there is a whole lot of content in the letter. I will find the time to pick it apart this week and others join in this thread, please...!

Thank you for posting the letter.

I think you will find the rest of it enlightening. Not so much new information but she's deeper than I would've expected. Sinead O'Connor was never someone I ever gave a second thought about but that's changed. Its not about the messenger its the message.

Because of all that's happened, I'm hoping some of our people will become more aware, it might give Treyvon Martin's death more meaning.

First we had the Civil Rights Movement which was overlapped by the Black Power Movement. Its been around 30 odd years since then. Aside from the Nation of Islam there's been no focus on a black agenda, unity or anything to keep us united as one.

Its is refreshing to see the efforts of so many seeking justice for Treyvon.

 

[Thick Johnson]

if you are comfortable in a group....

even if you know that group is dead ass wrong you will remain
there with a half ass stance on some shit you don't really even
believe in. it means you're weak and need a group to stand.

you can take the dumbest poor hillbilly and you will see its a group
when he says he is superior he's actually speaking on his race even
though he is looked down on by them. the hillbilly sees you are well
dressed well mannered and have class but still runs the mind game.

its for him more than it is to affect you....you grin and wink
knowing the mothafucka has had a hard road. the only way
what people think of you matters is if you seek their approval
and you are unsure of yourself.

when you are unsure its evident by the things you attempt to use
to validate you..material shit..."dressing"

you can put a kit on a Ford escort everyone knows its a damn escort.(old school)

on the flipside
imagine a race of people being effected by racism and turning it inward
on each other on some brown paper bag shit and going out of their way
to support the businesses of those they claim to hate and measure their
own appearance based on European standards.

shits like a living nightmare and has gotten very twisted over time

and you wont make many friends pointing this out either.

i grew up in the middle played guitars in rock bands and soul bands
i get along with regular people. hating racism doesn't make it go
away. pretending it doesn't exist doesn't work..sucking up to
white people bleaching skin and hanging with all white folks won't
either.

bottomline is that shit is unavoidable

there have always been white people who looked at devils as devils

they just don't have the strength in numbers to override.

 

[Mo-Better]

Dick Gregory speaking at a Treyvon Martin rally. props to Kanem for the link.

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-grio/46858778/#46858744

 

[Mo-Better]

if you are comfortable in a group....

even if you know that group is dead ass wrong you will remain
there with a half ass stance on some shit you don't really even
believe in. it means you're weak and need a group to stand.

you can take the dumbest poor hillbilly and you will see its a group
when he says he is superior hillbilly and you will see its a group
when he says he is superior he's actually speaking on his race even
though he is looked down on by them. the hillbilly sees you are well
dressed well mannered and have class but still runs the mind game.

its for him more than it is to affect you....you grin and wink
knowing the mothafucka has had a hard road. the only way
what people think of you matters is if you seek their approval
and you are unsure of yourself.

when you are unsure its evident by the things you attempt to use
to validate you..material shit..."dressing"

you can put a kit on a Ford escort everyone knows its a damn escort.(old school)

on the flipside
imagine a race of people being effected by racism and turning it inward
on each other on some brown paper bag shit and going out of their way
to support the businesses of those they claim to hate and measure their
own appearance based on European standards.

shits like a living nightmare and has gotten very twisted over time

and you wont make many friends pointing this out either.

i grew up in the middle played guitars in rock bands and soul bands
i get along with regular people. hating racism doesn't make it go
away. pretending it doesn't exist doesn't work..sucking up to
white people bleaching skin and hanging with all white folks won't
either.

bottomline is that shit is unavoidable

there have always been white people who looked at devils as devils

they just don't have the strength in numbers to override.

This maybe true with younger people giving into peer pressure but I can't buy a mature responsible adult feeling an obligation to partake in something he/she knows is wrong. I don't care who it is! As for me, I just can't blindly go along in support of what I know is wrong. If you are "comfortable in a group" that's all the more reason to stand your ground on issues you don't go along with.

However crazy as it might seem maybe my approach is flawed. When you spoke of that hillbilly you were right, he has what amounts to a support group. Right or wrong they stick together. Just look at the support Zimmerman has gotten. Yet anyone with 1 iota of common sense knows this guy is guilty.

Who do we have? Each other? I don't see it and we better wake up. It maybe time to adapt the same approach on social issues. But from what I'm seeing in this thread we can't even get a discussion going. This country has its first black president and where's our outrage and disgust? Our president was publicly called a ****** last week by Santorum at one of his rallies. Again where's our angry responses?

Collectively we need to wake up and it needs to start with the black woman. She's the foundation to the family and its the families that make up or neighborhoods and communities.

If this trend of killing back people isn't put in check soon it will only get worse. Most of us have children, Treyvon could be any child we know or even our own.

 

[Deacs]

I see the perspective shift and demeanor of how this is viewed here compared to the main board... good its refreshing