It has been along time since I wrote a blog. I decided that I would contemplate long and hard about what I wanted as well as needed to say. After along time of pondering of why is that we as African-Americans, struggle no matter the income level. That's when it came to me. We are suffering from terminal illness. This disease is destroying Black Americans. Have you ever just sat down a thought about a cure for a disease? This disease is an epidemic. It afflicts over 70% of the Black population. This disease, causes broken homes, teen pregnancy, homicide, suicide, genocide, heart disease, stress, heart related problems, cancer, sexually transmitted disease, poverty, helplessness, hopelessness, heartache, abandonment, fatherless/motherless children, the breakdown of all family structure, greed, envy, thievery, mass deception and ignorance.
Many of us that suffer from this disease don't even know that they have been afflicted. Unfortunately most of Black America suffers from the "Tinted Window Syndrome." This disease "is the leading killer of people of color."The Tinted Widow Syndrome is cause be ignorance. This ignorance is caused when a person of color does not have know of self and has been "dumbed down", by the American educational system. The symptoms include, self hatred, envy of your own people, violent/criminal acts that are committed against one another, "Crab in the Barrel Syndrome"(when one crab tries to get out and the others pull him back down", the act of coveting his neighbors by being a snitch, liar, follower, thief, whore, beggar and blindness to truth and reality. The more severe side effects includes, hatred of own self and color, denial of self, denial of truth,  acceptance of all white lies, homicide against brother and/or sister (be it blood relation or friend), Delusions (of acceptance), Hysteria ( of not being hood rich), Paranoia(due to you having courage to seek knowledge, and rejection because of the knowledge of obtained), Hypertension (due to all of the pain/stress/fear of all the wrong you have done in the name of ignorance), and long term suffering.
This Syndrome, is when you as an individual, are standing behind a glass. This glass is thick but you can see through it. Behind this glass wall you see and here people you know and some you don't. You can hear everything that they are saying but they don't see you. They cannot hear you. They are blind to the reality of this glass that separates us. There are the people that can see this glass. These are the people that are trying to break through to help the others on the opposite side. Unfortunately they don't even recognize that there is a barrier. It is the conscious that see and hear, and the followers/believers that don't.
There is a cure for this. And we don't have to go to any pharmacy to obtain any drugs to mask the symptoms. So stop taking that Paxil, Seroquel. Prozac, Prevacid, Tums, Inderal, Coumadin, Topril, Xanax, Ambien, Valium, Codeine, Adderall, Topamax, Hydrocodone and many others. This cure is simple, painless and quick. It may call for some unity and faith. And I don't meant he bull that you are sold on Sundays and Saturdays. This is real faith. You see since Blacks and Latinos make up for the most revenue spent on consumer goods then we can change things. All we have to do is come together on just this one thing.  Just this one time, we need to come together change some things. Violence is not the answer. The only way to beat some of these white people is to think. That's right, think. They created this bullshit society we call home. So when in Rome, do as the Romans' (forced) right? Ok fine we can do that and here is how. We need to set aside one day or more, however, and not spend one dime. That' right folks! NOT SPEND A RED CENT! If all of us pull together to do this we can change quite a few things in this nation. We can stop the senseless killing of our people by the police; we can make the government hear our cry. Because if you are not talking dollars, then you don't make sense (cents), feel me. This is my contribution to help change my condition. What about you? Once you are done criticizing, just think about it. What else can you do that will strike harder than any missile or hollow point?  Thinks about it like this; you have never thought about anything before. In our parents and grandparents time that marched. Well we appreciate all that it did and all that "they" gave. We shall not ever forget the live lost and the slain leaders that fell. This is the contribution that we are to give back. This is a new day and a new fight. Let's make our people/ancestors/slain leaders proud.
We will boycott everything; gas, electric, groceries, certain bills (credit cards, cell bills, cable, etc.). On this day our silence will ring at an ear deafening decibel. We shall be heard all over the world. Let’s do this!
This is for the Katrina victims, our people slain by the police and government, Martin, Malcolm, Edgar, Ron Brown, Kunta, Assata, Huey, all people that have fallen to crimes of this racist government.

Pass this on to every person that you have ever cared for. This is the key to the crossroads.

Amani
Gina/Jean