Prepping for the Okey Doke

Black people and other People of color, are in a precarious space right now.  No, not the "business as usual" stance where we are denied the better offers, followed around stores or the other ways we are discriminated against on a daily basis.  I'm specifically talking about being in the familiar position of getting the "ole Okey Doke" pulled on us once again.

We've joined the rest of America in marching and protesting against the "powers that be", yeah, it's for a good reason but I'm feeling some type of way about it.

I can imagine it has the same feel as our ancestors felt during the fight for civil rights, feminism, equal pay, etc...all of those things where the majority was extremely quick to grab us and pull us into a fight that had become theirs.  These are great causes so you may ask, what is the big deal now?

The big deal is, where were these folks just months ago when blacks and browns were marching against the killing of our brothers, sisters, children?  When we were shouting at the top of our lungs, "Hands Up" and "I Can't Breathe", with a small exception compared to this, all we got back from the masses was "...but ALL lives matter!"  And for the ones not wondering what happened before the tape started rolling, not a peep.  They sat in their homes, anxiously hoping no one pulled them into the fray, while under their breaths, they were murmuring, "Well, look at THEM and the way they act..that's why THEY get treated the way THEY do...THEY are acting like animals and thugs!!"

But now, America is treating THEM like they've treated blacks for years upon years, and suddenly we all are suppose to break our necks protesting, chanting and gathering.

Yes, the fight for right is always good but I wonder where these same folks will be once they get what THEY want.  Will they continue the fight for equal rights and treatment for blacks and other people of color once they remove the trump out of the White House?  Or will they, as history has dictated ALWAYS, conveniently forget about our struggles?  I mean, the precedence that's been set says that's exactly what will happen.  We'll become "those thugs and animals" again with a quickness.

So, I say, if and while we are out marching and chanting, make sure you get YOUR situation started and taken care of.  While you are out there "making connections", you better make sure you are doing what you need to do to stay CONNECTED.  For you, yours and your communities.  Start your businesses while the awareness that we definitely DO matter is fresh in everyone's head.  Get the connections you need to build your foundation so when the hoopla dies down, you won't have not gotten anything out of this.

Yeah, it's very reminiscent of "times o' past"....but THIS TIME, if the ole Okey Doke is pulled, you'd have gotten something out of it...not just been a willing pawn in a fight that's always been yours but you've had to fight mostly alone for a long, long time, ...until the fight became theirs.

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