Black Lives Matter But Wake Up People

I never like watching or reading the news because it's hardly ever really any good news that they share or talk about, so I have tried to ignore what's going on in Baltimore because it's the same thing all over again just a different place. Now don't get me wrong, I know there is a lot more going on than what the media is showing, (which is always the case. They always leave out vital and important and seemingly less interesting stories in order to tell the story they want to tell).  While I applaud the many who kept and maintain a peaceful protest but the ones who decided to return violence with violence, come on really? Why destroy your city, YOUR city. If something goes wrong do you go and trash your own home? Do you break your own windows, damage your own car? Finding a better alternative solution to address these issues are out there, you just have to come together (which we blacks don't do) and find one. In the end the only people who gone suffer and get hurt in the end is us blacks. While you're out there in the streets you're not at work making money. The baseball team just canceled seven games, no money coming in and jobs lost. City damages, oops got to pay that as well, which means tax increase. In a week or so everyone will get tired, the media will leave and everyone will forget, just like in Ferguson, no one is protesting, boycotting or demanding justice right now. 

I'm not arguing the fact how the media tends to portray blacks on the news verses our white counterparts but why must we always give them something to talk about and look down on us for? We live up to every racial stereotype and stigma they label and put on us and get mad for it. We continue to show our ignorance and foolishness everyday. And yes, just because we blacks, particularly males, are looked at being violent, thugs, bangers and even some dealers, doesn't give cops the right to act prejudice against us, but half of  the time we give them every right to do so. They say don't judge a book by it's cover but a first impression is an everlasting impression. Say someone walk into your job for an interview for a high paying job at your prestigious company dressed in tee, pants off their butt and sneakers, what would the first thing that comes to your mind? How would you perceive this person? Would you hire them knowing that they now represent you and your company that you worked so hard to build? If you're true and honest with yourself you wouldn't hire them because they don't look the part and they look like trouble. Nothing about him says he's responsible, he's ambitious, he works hard and won't become a problem and is manageable. That is how other people view us everyday. Nothing about our appearance (now not all of us but a lot of us) says we aren't trouble makers, we aren't thugs or whatever. We dress and imitate rappers and movie characters from our favorite hood movies thinking that way of living is for us and totally miss the point. If anything these movies and songs should show us what could and will happen to us if engage in that kind of lifestyle. 

There is nothing cool about mugging people, breaking into people's cars and homes, acting a fool on the net, degrading ourselves and yet we are the first ones to holler and complain when a white person calls us out on it or treat us a certain way. To be honest, I hate what our black society has become. Guys walking with their pants down their ass, girls twerking and dressing half naked, everyone out fighting over stupid nonsense. Simply being ignorant. We get upset and riot and protest over a death of black men who were basically criminals, who were the definition of the basic stereotype and wonder why he's dead. Once again not justifying or even saying this is true, just stating there are numerous other innocent lives lost to our own kind over stupid feuds and ignorance. If we want change, we first need to change ourselves. We have a long way to go as black people, to bring enlightenment to not only to ourselves but to the world. We can't expect for white people to treat us equally without looking down on us if we are not able to treat each other with kindness and love. We hate each other so would white people like us? We bring each other down why would we expect anything different from them? We walk around being blind and ignorant, thinking everything is owed to us but is not willing to work for it. We blame the white man for holding us down but refuse to do what it takes to lift each other up. We blame others for our downfall but never ourselves. "The white man trick us, the white man doesn't give us the proper education, the white man won't hire us..." Excuses. Once we learn to stop making excuses and learn how to work together, support each other and find better goals, morals and standards for ourselves, then we will be able to overcome the racial differences in America. If we want change and bring an end to racism, we first need to show that change within us first. Why expect anything from others that we don't expect and show within ourselves. Wake up black people before it's too late.