Martin Luther King Holidays and Memorials

I was given the once over by some of our residents of the District of Columbia last month for speaking my mind about the newer face of the District and how our residents that have lived here for generations apparently don't have much say or money in the matter.The title article was called 'Can this be revived?' basically saying that the 'H'Street corridor has now been changed to foot the coming of the trolley cars ,new hotels,condos,massage parlors oh! they commented on me so profusely because I made mention of a couple of health parlors  being a yoga den-Woo! did they get on me were saying that they actually threw up in their mouths from the statement. The problem that I have is the utmost disrespect for Black Washingtonians that have lost out on their legacies here in DC. What with new developers coming in and out of our city-Well it used to be ours so they called it 'Chocolate City at one time now it's not even that. I don't know what we can call DC right about now as it says it's final death knell. With that being said all can be said is that we will see if this new DC will be a better city for Blacks and their families or are we destined to be destroyed along with the culture that used to thrive here? gone along like a smoke drift as one person so aptly said that DC was destroyed by the onslaught of Cocaine. I again beg to differ because this week there is actually a seminar or sit,down and talk meeting(What I call those meetings that needs answers from its citizens)Now if that doesn't give you signs of vague ,unmet reasons and thought that are drifting around this wonderful city, I will eat my hat and yours too! There is something that is amiss in our surroundings and it's not just the statistics of unemployment or even the fact that you can now afford something without a foreclosure lurking solidly by your head. They have lowered the loans and APR, APY rates for someone I just wonder who? People who aren't employed can't get employed without skills and money. Money for programs,educational and otherwise How about some technical skills and help programs for those folks that aren't Bachelor degrees and or Master's degree material but have potential to work at something other that the professions and sciences- How about Congress not fighting the President for every little bill that he sends there way for lack of a better word (PREJUDICES) and allow some programs in society that can perhaps help someone other than the elite citizens that probably have everything that they can imagine in their homes,land capital and money! Whew and a lot of us are still trying to get out of the Food Stamp lines that are still evident in our country but if your an alien that just got here you'll have a store on the corner before I can shake my tightly curled hair free of the ribbon or tie that's on it.There are so many things wrong here in America that we just shake our heads and take it low to the belly like t's nothing at all but for real its all economically upside down and there is no real leverage given to the ones that count and that's the citizens of this society. The residents of the DC area just have gotten a touch of it on a wider scale because everyone seems to want to go to Hollywood we just forgot our cues and oops! Our lines!!! Martin Luther King said He has been to the mountaintop and I know he didn't make mention of seeing a people more downtrodden now that they were then now did he??    What was Martin's Dream? and I know he didn't make mention of seeing all the people he mentioned ostracized in their own cities?

What's so hard to learn about LOVE?

If we look at our world and realize just how small it is in comparison to our everyday wants,needs and worries maybe just maybe we can see that we are more alike than not. Every little girl wants to be a Princess and most little boys have the trademark of their daddies or some other in-charge person they know-sic! However what they aspire to be has more to do with what their parents have presented into the lives of their children. The most important aspect would have to be is the countenance of the LOVE that's manifested and shown throughout their lives! How they are both loved and how they decipher and give love. Do they realize through parenting that they should love each other and create relationships with people as opposed to not creating them? Do your little ones keep most of their abilities and attitudes that they have when they were young? And if not why not because we showed them how to be suspicious and to hate? Why do we even teach this strange emotion? is it indeed a defensive motive or do we give this to them as a type of keepsake handed down from generation to generation? What is it's use anyway? We start out so nicely cultivating qualities in our young to take on the world as they will know it not exactly as we have because of the frequent changing of the Guard! This is something that is-inevitable and nothing or no one can stop the ticking of the clock of 'Time" Just believe that we are not the only ones of this world that have to teach,collaborate and justify where we want our offspring to aspire to be and to what extent they will get to when they get there.We have to believe though as their proprietors that we are reverent in our misgivings and that if there are mistakes that they can be rectified also done and to thine self be true! Teach them these attributes and their lives may not have been in vain for these are the ways of this world and perhaps the next-Who knows??

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