DANCING WITH DIGNITY

Reenacting sex positions to music or a beat is not dancing. I see a lot of young African Americans doing this-please stop it! This is actually a perversion of the art of dancing: It is like singing but using only profanities. As African Americans, we should try not to show the world all of our aberration. There are already too many stereotypes and misrepresentations of African Americans-this kind of stuff exacerbates the issue. So, we must remember: as we are laughing at ourselves, the world is laughing at us too. Consider black on black crime, black incarceration rates, high school dropout rates, single parent homes, college attendance rates for black men, HIV in the black communities, high rates of low education, etc. When the world see black plight, they consider the statistics and then are reminded of s*** like this. This causes many of them to not feel sympathetic toward black suffering: they feel that we brought the suffering upon ourselves. I know it's an ignorant way to think-although there is some truth to it-,but when we give them ammo for their racist guns, we shouldn't be surprised when they fire their racist and prejudice weapons at us. The internet is inundated with videos of black aberration. We are airing our dirty laundry. Yeah, all people have dirty laundry, but our laundry seems to affect us tremendously. We should be more mindful of our public image before uploading videos of our children using profanity, our men and women fighting one another like wild dogs, our youth fighting themselves and their teachers in classrooms, etc. The world already doesn’t give a damn about us; and this kind of stuff makes them feel that they are justified in their apathy toward us.