Can We Talk? A Poem-Torial

I look around today and more than ever....EVERYBODY is MAD.
Those that ain't mad are looking for the first reason to go "bat crap" crazy.
And trust me I have been mad.
I ain't happy that no one is going to jail for the lead in the water in Flint, Michigan.
I am not happy that I knew that no one going to jail in Flint means that none of us probably have clean water, anywhere.
I am not happy that people are saying...poor people do not have a right to clean water.
I am not happy that every time I go to the store my favorite desserts are on sale and I have been trying to eat better for 5 years now.
Thinking about girls, mothers and grand mothers that are being raped and kidnapped in Africa while I write this....hurts my heart...makes me mad.
So when I log onto face book and see other people calling Stacey Dash all kind of names...(and the worst names come from the women.) I get... confused.

 

When did it become the highest form of treason to not think like everybody else?
And what can you do to change everyone else to think like you do?

And just why should everyone think like you?
Lastly, the world we live in is rough. It rains, it snows, there are earth quakes and really bad and nasty people out there.
Somebody says they support Donald Trump, or Hillary Clinton, or Bernie Sanders and now you get upset....?

A. If you get emotionally hurt cause Trump said he don't like Mexicans or Hillary said black men must be brought to heal? How are you going to survive when one of them are in The White House?

B. How are you going to survive when the real crisis comes?
I am not saying concern is ever wasted.
I am not here to make you like anything you don't like...especially hate speech. I think hate speech should be checked and dealt with in a serious matter (boycotts, walking away and calling the speech what it is.)
However the same laws that guarantees Trump and Clinton's rhetoric. Is the same freedom that allows your favorite minister to speak from The Bible, Quran, or any Holy book. It allows Lil Wayne to make one bad song after another (not Mrs. Officer though ...I like that one...) The same laws that allow Trump and Clinton and Stacey Dash and Al Sharpton and Dr. Umar Johnson and Tavis Smiley and Farrakhan and The Young Turks and Bill O'Reilly and Obama and Mitch and Chris Rock and Gloria Steinam and MSNBC and Fox News ....allows me to share this.

 

YOU MAD

I said
Good Morning
and now YOU MAD
(I know it's morning. I don't need you to tell me it's a good morning)
I say Black Women are beautiful
and now YOU MAD
(That's all yall care about is sex sex sex.)
(Why you say Black Women are beautiful ...you should say all women are beautiful)
You Only Feel
FREE
and
SAFE

In a cold world where
the face of all your problems
are men
that say
Good Morning
It's A Beautiful Day

Nice Dress
and these nasty terrible words
SMASH YOUR WORLD INTO SHATTERED PIECES OF EMOTION
VIOLATE YOUR PEACE
and The Only Way for You To Be Strong
IS TO MAKE SURE YOU LET ME KNOW
I do not have the right
to comment to you about
Mornings
or
Sunshine
or Nice Dresses
So if it helps you
HEAL...
BE MAD

I GOT THE MEMO
That Said
ALL BLACK PEOPLE HAVE TO WORSHIP THE SAME GOD
IN THE SAME WAY
IN THE SAME PLACE
CALLING HIM THE SAME NAME...
Memo arrived with my name on it at about 5 years old...I was playing with Lincoln Logs I think
Some times my families favorite thing to do
is to stand 2 feet from each other
saying the most God Awful Stuff about each other
all in the name of
GOD
all in the name of CHRIST
If you listened to my cousins and my mom
What Jesus
WOULD Do
is
SCREAM BIBLE VERSES

at people
To Save Them from
HELL
I don't get mad about God
no more
I try to let God live through me

I Missed The Memo however
that all people
all Black people
got to think alike
I Met Armstrong Williams (black conservative)
and enjoyed my conversation with him more than I did speaking

with Magic Johnson
I disagree with both
I ain't mad at either
now if Armstrong ain't mad that Stacey Dash
is getting some of his money I sure ain't
I am not wringing my hands because Rayvon wants to be
a person
an American or if

she starts calling herself
the Grand Imperial Poobah

I ain't MAD

I don't want you to think
JUST LIKE ME
I want you to be able to tell me
WHY YOU LOVE OBAMA LIKE YOU LOVE JESUS
and I want you to be able to hear me when I say...
BEING RIGHT has NEVER Been a SHIELD FROM HARM or HURT
I don't get mad at broken clocks

and I acknowledge they keep the RIGHT TIME TWICE A DAY
and I understand where
Stacey and Rayvon are coming from
even if I don't believe the same thing

Why Can't We Talk To Each Other Any More...?
Why does..."What do you think of Unions?"
Become an invite to play the DOZENS (name calling.)
I Love
President Obama and I Love Tavis Smiley
and I need them both to do what they do
even when I wish they would do it
MY WAY
and Liberals yall need Conservatives to pressure you to do right my

the women and black people that support you
but I don't get mad
cause some where
some one is plotting to poison the food

that my niece loves to eat...now that
makes
me
MAD
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