I honestly don’t have an answer for why we aren’t in a constant state of rage but I suspect it’s because we all have
families we care for, we all have jobs we have to go to, and reality is, many of us simply don’t know what can
be done to curb these killings of ours. I do know for a fact that the answer is NOT doing anything. To you all’s
credit, I am aware of the various efforts you all are involved in such as the provisions for scholarship monies,
mentoring, caring for our seniors, and a number of other similar efforts. Reality is, we need a lot more. Reality
is, we are literally at war as the media continues to target our people with the most vile, disrespectful, debasing,
dehumanizing, criminalizing, propaganda as entertainment imaginable. .non-stop. .unapologetically. .and unabated. There is little or no resistance to it. Since the feature presentation, ‘The Birth of a Nation’, by D.W. Griffith
in 1915, America’s media moguls have seen fit to do everything in their power to help maintain the status quo
through the subjugation of Africans through the audio and visual. We continue to be inundated with movies and
television programming that depicts us in the worst light possible. Our psyches are continuously bombarded
with imagery that negatively impacts our minds, spirits, and behaviors. Science has indicated this and as a people
who collectively, don’t have a firm grasp on our history and true identity/culture, we are more prone to accepting
whatever identities are assigned to us through media. We become what they wish us to. As impressionable as we
are as adults, our children are 100 times more impressionable and subject to being led astray. Many of our children have bought into the notion that they are whores, niggas, bitches, drug addicts, alcoholics, thugs, criminals,
murderers, misogynists, and materialistic shallow hyper-consuming idiots. This is what the media tells them they
are constantly. These impressionable children grow into adults who don’t understand the nature of propaganda as
they soon come to see it as strictly entertainment, something to laugh at or simply enjoy.