Frosty's Flava Magazine AUG-SEP- 2019 URBAN FILM FESTIVAL EDITION | Page 9

on average, which is ninety times (90x) more
than what the bottom fifth (5th) makes per
year which is $6,800, and when this report was
completed by CNN in 2013, 16% of the parish
was unemployed.
It’s unfair housing practices that effectively
kept “Black” people from
acquiring legitimate
home-mortgages for
a period of thirty (30)
years or never seeing the
benefits of the G.I. Bill after
serving in World War II,
which provided financial
support in the form of cash
stipends for schooling,
low-interest mortgages, job
skills training, low-interest
loans, and unemployment
benefits given to their
White counterparts.
We argue with our peers
over a celebration of
“firsts”, but were they the
“first” to be bestowed the
distinction of being placed
in that position, or was that
the day the “powers that
be” weren’t tripping and
placated us?
For all the success and accolades given for the
movie “Black Panther” and the pride we felt for
Colin Kaepernick being announced the face of
Nike’s 30th Anniversary “Just Do It” campaign,
we still don’t control our image and how it’s
propagated.
We’re tarnished by decades of criminalization
spearheaded by the mass media and self-hate
perpetrated by our own.
Under Cointelpro, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
knew that the prevention of the rise of the next
“Black” messiah was paramount in curbing any
future insurrections. That if unified, WE can be
an unstoppable force that would demand our
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seat at the proverbial table of justice.
Which is why the allegory of the “Willie Lynch
Letter” continues to be the spectre that hinders
our progression.
Through division we remain
disjointed; we’re no longer
invaluable to each other
which allows others to
capitalize on our failures.
So why promote something
that would destabilize a
system that profits from
those shortcomings?
See we’re accustomed to
our racism being dressed
in Klan robes; wearing
khaki pants, MAGA hats
and carrying Tiki torches;
being Permit Patti, the
manager of Starbucks or
an individual calling the
authorities for being in a
public dwelling.
When truly it’s as subtle
as the emojis on your
telecommunication device
not allowing images that
promotes solidarity to look like you:
Take the pot off the burner and let it steep. “We
Are The Change!”
I’m Gone! (b)
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