OFCI Report Editorial: No Justice, Just Peace (Silence)

Prior to the Zimmerman verdict I posted on Facebook that after it was read, and if found not guilty, that nation wide there would be protest and people on Facebook would voice their opinions of outrage. Then, after a few short weeks, 2 at the most, the outcry and outrage would drop to silence. An just as I predicted, it happened. No longer do you see the blogs, the post, the articles, news reports, protest, etc. about how the Stand Your Ground Law needs to be challenged and changed in America itself. No Longer do you hear the cry for Justice for Treyvon. An that amazes me because with all the social injustices going on everyday in our country, you would think that the fight for Justice, not just for one young man, but for all that has felt its cold touch, would fight on until a solution is reached. Rome wasn't built in a day, and just as long as it took to build Rome, it may take just as long for change, but we have to push harder and harder until it happens. But what I have noticed is that it seems that mainstream has pacified us into submission of leaving this story alone by giving us football, and Scandal, and the new Fall Season of television so that we can focus our attention on things less productive instead of thing that will bring about productivity and change. No need to ask what happened to the Warriors of yesteryear that would fight for change even if it meant losing blood and spending time in jail. In these days and time it makes you wonder if all the marches and speeches were for show given the fact that it seems like everyone that did them wanted to capitalize on the situation for their own self indulgences and get their 15 minutes in the spotlight as if they were doing something spectacular by photo opting with The "Rev" Al Sharpton and Jay Z at a Justice for Treyvon rally. Long gone are the days when protest meant fighting until the fight is finished and the victory is won. Now it is all about turning your news interview into a book deal or a reality show. Listen, we were taught that the only way to get respect is to earn it. But how are we supposed to gain it if the ones we are trying to get it from sees our arguments as full of fluff and inconsistence. We need to step up our game and show the world that in our outrage and outcry that we mean business by Standing Our Own Ground when it comes to Civil Equality and Justice. Not backing down because they threaten us with Words. When has it gotten to the point that we have become more afraid of words than we are of weapons? I am pretty sure that anyone from the 60's can tell you that in their time and struggle, that words meant far less to them when they would be fighting, because they knew the words could not harm them. Now it seems that everyone has become more delicate and fragile, worried more about their Social Image than their Social Rights. What have we become and when did we become it.....No Justice Just Peace (SILENCE), Justice For Treyvon and Many, Many, More!!!!

You can't cry racism when it seems like you working for them too....

I was talking to a guy the other day at the barbershop and he happened to mention that he sells drugs. After the conversation I begin to think about the drug epidemic that is plaguing our communities and I pondered on how those as black poeple that do sell drugs contribute to the downfall of our people. One of the things I began to wonder about was, I see guys all the time cry racism all the times when it it seems that the so-called man is doing something unfair or unjust to the black race. Now it is whoever says anything bad or negative about President Obama you are deemed a racist. And please don't let the police do anything towards a black man, then the communities go up in an uproar. But as I began to think longer on this I begin to ask, Isn't it a little bit hypocritical for you Mr. Drug Dealer to cry foul when you are one of the ones doing the hitting for the other team. You cry racism and injustice yet at the same time it seems that you are working for the same team that is helping destroy our race in the first place. You are in your own communities selling drugs to your own people helping them ruin their lives just as the so-called white man wants you too. It seems as though you are helping them to wash out and eliminate the race for them. It seems you are their opperatives in the field working to complete their mission. And in the foreground they are laughing at you, still calling you Niggers, Jigga-boos and what not while you are in the hood doing the dirty work for them. Standing on the corners late at night selling that poison to your own people and you seem as though you have no remorse about what you are doing. But what do you care it's making you money so who cares. Instead of turning that around and opening legal businesses that will help build up and empower your fellow Black Man or Woman and give them a hand from getting under the oppression of the Man, instead you use their tatics and schemes unknowingly or knowingly to do just what they have been trying to do for years, Destroy the Black Man. And one thing I have noticed is that you rarely ever see on t.v. anything anymore about Klan Rallies or anything of the sort. Well they don't need to protest because they have you Mr. Drug Dealer to do their work for them, again Destroy the Black Man. So again the question is, How can you cry racism when it seems like you are working for them too? But I don't want to make it seem that all of my white brothers and sisters are racist, because they are not. But when I say "them" I am refering to those that work for the racist establishment looking to destroy any and everyone that are against their racist agenda. Now we know that racism is prevelent in our society, and though it is a problem often discussed it seems that know one ever come up with a solution on how to solve it. But this goes out to all those that either sell drugs, or wanna sell drugs; Before you cry out racism or speak out against any injustice done to anyone in your own or other race, step back and look at what you are doing and see if you fall into the catagory you are shouting about. You talk about the man, but seems as though you like working for him and doing his dirty work. I'm Just Saying....