As society becomes more and more controversial we continue to kill each other slowly, from phony issues like having hatred towards someone for stealing each other's musical beats when in all morality would we have even been able to argue for particular rights if Rosa Parks didn't refuse to give up her proclaimed bus seat?
Is it a sign of disrespect or curiosity if a person looks askew at you? Is it ethical to shoot someone just because they glanced at you?
What would we have done if just for looking at someone was taken out of context and we were lynched by others as if we were Emmett Till?
Why do we take education for granted as if tomorrow is expected to come and we continue to procrastinate not realizing that for people like Frederick Douglass for that moment a chance to read and write made us feel superior as blacks?
Why do we continue to belittle our sisters and brothers just because they're of different ethnic dissents and aren't on the expected social class when Medgar Evers died for the justice of depriving us of equality and making us discover valid facts?
We take freedom for granted as if it can never be taken away because that's what we're entitled to, but what would we have done if we had walked in Homer Plessy's shoes for a day and were deprived of something so simple as riding on a certain part of a train?
We remotely discriminate against the different person who isn't exactly in our element just because we refuse to look beyond the garden of regular roses and see the oasis of delicate orchids?
What would we have done if we were Ruby Bridges the first black student at a predominately white elementary school?
Each day we deliberately continue to run away from anything that seems as if its too difficult the words "I Can't and "I Don't Know How" consume our vocabulary like a second language?
What would we have done if we were Sojourner Truth and those words were considered the enemy and defined us as people?
So I ask while we're living life in denial, are we thinking about the little girl whose aspiring to soar to be the next Betsey Coleman, the little boy dreaming of walking in Arthur Ashe's shoes the woman striving to carry the microphone of Ida Wells-Barnett and the remarkable man who's putting up a strife against discrimination to voice his opinion through inspirational words as if he was carrying the pen and pad of August Wilson?
So why don't we appreciate the fact that life is more precious than we believe, it shouldn't be seen as a shell for our sins and just something that's ours temporarily. Leaders like Harriet Tubman, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeoad Bethune, Booker T. Washington, Hattie McDaniel, Langston Hughes, among others were all inspirational individuals that have fought the strife that has granted us with the power to decide what's best for us. So why do we continue to repeat history as if the paths to accomplishment and freedom were handed to us on a silver platter?
