My Favorite Sweater. Did some digging through the closet in my basement and came across this beauty tucked underneath a Yankee's 2000 World Series hoodie and a Marlboro crew neck. This was the one that caught my eye. Looking at it just makes me glad I am what I am. I wish I had found this during black history month, but it's all good. I've always been fascinated with African-American history. In school they'd rather teach you about the Holocaust but not about something that happened on our own soil. Now don't get me wrong, the Holocaust was absolutely horrible, and everyone should be taught about it, but slavery and oppression happened on this land right here. They do not spend enough time teaching about it in school, everyone should know what happened and how Black people played an important role in todays society. Hell, when I first moved to North Carolina my house was on an old slave plantation. People are so blind and ignorant to the past, bet you didn't know a black man invented the traffic light? Yeah, we offered alot to this "great country". But now a days, black people are put into stereotypes and honestly, you can't get mad at it. As a whole, black people are very ungrateful. We take advantage of everything, we give ourselves a bad name. Shocking fact, 1 out of 2 black teenage females have some sort of STD.. yes, this is a true statistic. We are the number one race in America and the rest of the world thats infected with the AIDS virus... yet, we can't seem to put aside our pride and get tested. It's time for African Americans as a whole to wake up and end these stereotypes once and for all. I don't know about you guys, but I strive to do this everyday.. wake up and do the same.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
My Favorite Sweater. Did some digging through the closet in my basement and came across this beauty tucked underneath a Yankee's 2000 World Series hoodie and a Marlboro crew neck. This was the one that caught my eye. Looking at it just makes me glad I am what I am. I wish I had found this during black history month, but it's all good. I've always been fascinated with African-American history. In school they'd rather teach you about the Holocaust but not about something that happened on our own soil. Now don't get me wrong, the Holocaust was absolutely horrible, and everyone should be taught about it, but slavery and oppression happened on this land right here. They do not spend enough time teaching about it in school, everyone should know what happened and how Black people played an important role in todays society. Hell, when I first moved to North Carolina my house was on an old slave plantation. People are so blind and ignorant to the past, bet you didn't know a black man invented the traffic light? Yeah, we offered alot to this "great country". But now a days, black people are put into stereotypes and honestly, you can't get mad at it. As a whole, black people are very ungrateful. We take advantage of everything, we give ourselves a bad name. Shocking fact, 1 out of 2 black teenage females have some sort of STD.. yes, this is a true statistic. We are the number one race in America and the rest of the world thats infected with the AIDS virus... yet, we can't seem to put aside our pride and get tested. It's time for African Americans as a whole to wake up and end these stereotypes once and for all. I don't know about you guys, but I strive to do this everyday.. wake up and do the same.
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