BOLOGNA BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF MARBLED RYE! by Contributing Writer, Dr. Monica Crooks
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ell isn’t it amazing that we have had the first Black President of the USA, arguably the most noble, moral, upstanding, elegant, highly educated, Constitutional Scholar ever to fill that role. He would have done great things had envy, jealousy, hatred, partisanship and flagrant racism not gotten immediately in his way. Obama was followed by the most unqualified, immoral, obnoxious, arrogant, ignorant…there are not enough negative superlatives to describe the madness of Chump. And now as President elect we have the other half of the Obama team plus the first female VP; first Black VP; first Asian VP! Historic is an understatement! We need to dissect what this is saying. For one, our country needs us! Strong, resilient, beautiful, brilliant Black people! Secondly, it says that 74 million, mostly white people, feel they are losing something they feel is uniquely and fundamentally theirs. FOX’s propaganda narrative, “The Browning of America,” has stoked irrational fear that “Brown-skinned” people are going to usurp the power position in America away from “White-skinned” people. Well let us remember that this land ultimately belongs to the “Red-skinned” people. ALL the rest of us had our ancestral beginnings somewhere else. But that is water under the bridge. It is high time for us ALL to stop thinking of ourselves in terms of where our ancestors came from, and embrace the fact that we are ALL from here! This continent. This country. This nation. Our nationality is US American. That’s it! (Read Isabel Wilkerson’s CASTE. Understand the cloth that the USA is woven from.) Together we must fight against the widening wealth divide. Make sure your children learn a trade that cannot be taken over by artificial intelligence/robots, which will be the next wave of job loss in this country. Make sure your children excel in high tech skills, computer science, engineering, math, proper, wellspoken English. Teach them the importance of proud, elegant, confident posture, gracious, intelligent presentation, eye contact and hopefully soon again…a firm handshake.
years throughout the collective American continents. We alone were stripped literally of everything: clothing, name, family, language, culture, religion, cuisine. We alone were trafficked in every sense of the horrid term…rape, abuse, forced labor, cruel sport, discrimination, and debasement in every way. Yet we survived and we thrive in anything and everything we put our minds to. OUR culture is AMERICAN culture; because WE created whatever we call “culture” right here on THIS continent with no possible knowledge of what culture our ancestors came from. Americans of African descent continually contribute to American culture in art, music, dance, fashion, hair style, language and general BADASS gravitas. Rock, Blues, Jazz, Funk, RAP, HipHop, Gospel; Break Dancing are worldwide and African American in origin. This is our homeland now. Our ancestors built it, fought, struggled, were tortured and died for it. We have a right to be here. And again our country needs us. We have been selfsufficient before in the past. (Look up Black Wall Street.) We can do it again. Support Black-Owned businesses. Be helpful to one another. Be appreciative of our non-Black supporters who want to see success and justice for all. Unite with them. They are our allies; our brothers and sisters regardless of ethnicity. Be cautious however. Chump has vastly emboldened those who wish us harm. Do not trust easily or too quickly. Travel in groups. There have been a number of lynchings of late that have been passed off as suicides, but no Black man or teen is going to hang himself from a damn tree. That is nonsense! There are wolves in sheep’s clothing. White Supremacists no longer hide themselves behind hoods and sheets. They wear suits and ties. Most of us can’t leave the US and live anywhere else easily. We must defend our homeland. Biden and Harris will need help from all of us. Let’s work together to make this country what it professes to be. United we stand. Divided we all fall! n
Of all the others who found their way here, we, people of African ethnicity whose family history is multi-generationally of the Americas, are the most truly American. Why do I say that? Because our ancestors were human trafficked for 246 | 1 6 | T H E H U B MA G A Z I N E
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