TO TAME OR NOT TO TAME

America has been dealing (or the lack thereof) with the same social issues for hundreds of years (i.e. race, employment, justice, equality, etc.). It's the same story over and over. I was reading Dubois' "Souls of black folk" the other day, and the social issues (i.e. race, employment, education, equality, justice, etc.) he was talking about were the same Obama spoke of in his SOTU speech-Dubois' book was published in the late 1800s. As I have been reading the wonderful book, I realized that America has been talking about doing the right thing but has not taken serious and bold steps in doing so. But, I'm not surprised by this flirtatious behavior with justice, equality, peace, etc. from a nation that was created out injustice, inequality, war, murder, rape, thievery, etc. 

MLK had a dream that his people would live in a nation that embraced justice;  unfortunately his people (and many others) are carrying on his dream. Honestly, I'm tired of dreaming. I'm tired of waiting for a group of people to do the right thing, especially when they have no history of doing so. I'm tired of our efforts of trying to tame their satanic proclivities to destroy, rape, murder, deceive, segregate, manipulate, and despoil. 

Europeans have held the crown of world domination for a while now. We can look at their history and see what kind of people they have been. Nothing in that history indicates that they are a people of love, peace, and justice. So, why are we wasting our time? What do we want more: to rehabilitate our people and create a world that our children can thrive in; or to tame the beast that is bent on destruction? Of course we would like to do both, and both are daunting tasks, but taming the beast is more of a challenge than it is to rehabilitate African Americans. Perhaps once we rehabilitate ourselves, then we can focus on taming the beast. But we must understand, this beast only respects formidable opponents. Like a schoolyard bully, he preys on the weak. We as African Americans know this very well. We understand this beast, for we have been his victims and he has been our terrorizer. Lets not spend another moment trying to rehabilitate our terrorizer; but let us spend more time rehabilitating our men, women, children, and our communities. I'm not suggesting that we can't do both; but we have tried to do both, and because of this, we are failing at both sides. Perhaps we can expend more time, energy and resources on rehabbing ourselves, rather than trying to tame, pacify, and shame the beast into a peaceful and nonviolent state. We have been trying to calm his aggression. But look at the world and find his armies. He is not going to be tamed. Only complete defeat will subdue this creature.