The Strange Fruit of #livingwhileblack.

I was raised by a single mother, who was born in the midst of Jim Crow, and she has seen whites only signs. She has witnessed the rise of the Civil Rights movement. She has vivid memories of where she was when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. She trekked with great pride to the inauguration of the first black president of the United States (something she thought she would never see in her lifetime), and one of the most important lessons she ever taught me is that no matter what color someone is, there are good people and bad people. There are good black people and bad black people; and there are good white people and bad white people. I have continued to carry that lesson with me, as I have grown in age, wisdom and experience. That is a lesson that I have taught and will continue to teach my own child, and hope that she will see that I am right, just as I have seen the truth of my mother’s lesson to me.

Unfortunately, the progressive minded people of any color, the ones striving for unity among all people are hard to hear. The negative ones, those spreading hate are always the most obnoxious and the loudest…. Deafening is the best adjective. They are deafening. Racists are deafening. But what is their goal? When they scream the separatist talking points? What is their goal? They use dog whistle lingo; carefully disguised rhetoric to express their true wants while making them ‘seem’ benign? They want to make America great again. They want to take America back. Take America back from…