Culture

I needed to begin this month of February that has been appointed as Black History month with the appreciation of our elders who helped get us this far. We may not always agree of some of the methods that were used to get us here, but we are still without question, here.

As we also know that our historical accounts here in Babylon, have to be carefully attended too with knowing the effects of what has been recorded of our elders in Babylon's implication to cause inside of us, this day and time an intense hatred that many of us are not able to discard for the present time, because of many evil forces that have not changed since the elders marched and spoke the truth of what is affecting our progress in this corporation/country called america.

I find it very important to only be angry at the wrong that was done and in the same movement discard the hatred that is tried to be instilled in us every February for the sake of non-productivity by this american media machine. It is a fact that no black man nor woman can effectively produce any solution to their communities problems, if their minds are continuously made cluttered with hatred and a pointless animosity that can not be resolved this day. But, to understand that in this day and time, we are to work towards a better future for to lay down a foundation that will prevent what has happen to us before, will never happen again.

Historical accounts are only for the sake of information of what was and what still is and not to cripple the minds and hearts of a people who were abused and oppressed with hatred. There is nothing wrong with hatred, as long as that hatred does not blind us to what needs to be done now, but is used not to cripple the mind, but to inspire movement for the sake of resolve. To hate what happened, is to inspire correction for those things to never happen again; and this is the balance of observation, anger, hatred, intelligence and thus resolve.

As long as we are here, we are making history. Our history is not simply began and ended in this shortest month of the year/still in the back of the bus. We are an ever evolving people and our history can never be told inside of a simple 28 days. We have a lot of work to do in the area of morality because of the affect and encouragement of this western culture that has forever destroyed the common morality of others cultures abroad the earth. The western culture that we have been contaminated with has taken the minds and hearts of many of our youth by way of music and have encouraged nothing but self-destruction; and if our youth are destroyed inwardly as well as in affect outwardly, then we no longer have a future that is prosperous in culture, but one that continues to cause a drowning effect of what is morally left of our ancestors.

I love you:) And I ask, plead with all of my community to understand the importance of culture as we create it this day and time. Let us do what needs to be done to fix our community upon every level.

David Anthony Brayboy