often times we forget

often times we do forget,
but let's try our best not to.
we owe it to ourselves to take a step back
and re examine the things we do and
the things we say on a day to day basis.
EX:

Listening to and then watching this video gave way to so many past emotions of being a black person, of being a black male. of forever having to be and stay conscious of my skin color not just when around my white counterparts but my lighterskinned "black" peers and counterparts as well. Angry is what i felt many a day. Confusion on why a world would praise this ignorance that we as "black ppl" perperurate on a daily basis. Why did i feel so out of touch because i was never one to re inforce a steriotype...

Now this video below was posted second so as not to take away from his use of the word nigger, for the sake of the spoken word it is not so much as a noun as it is a description of something that we've become to comfortable with, explained by the above video.




rhayne a. coleman