where did it all go wrong

Had a discussion at Sunday Brunch. Has our generation (25-45 year old) failed? The kids today seem to have no sense of culture, worth, self esteem, pride, history etc. And they dont seem to care or want to care. Did we fail them? I say yes! Our generation is the me, mine generation. As long as im getting mine who cares if you dont have yours. There is no each one teach one, No reaching back to raise up. We dont have a Martin Luther King Jr or a Malcom X. All our generation seems to care about is money. If you dont have any you dont matter. OUr young ladies think Hoe & Bitch are terms of endearment. Our young men call each other NIgga no matter what race they may be...its just a word they say. And we the older generation stand by, watch it happen, let kids be kids right? What do you think the problem is? Too many women head of the house? Where are our men? what are they doing? Where are our churches? what have they done? Youth departments are either failing or non existent. Where did it all go wrong? Better yet what are we going to do about it? Im just asking

I AM BAD

Its Black history month so I will be perodically posting some of my Fav quotes or Poems by people of color!!!


“Ego Tripping

I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad

I sat on the throne
drinking nectar with allah
I got hot and sent an ice age to europe
to cool my thirst
My oldest daughter is nefertiti
the tears from my birth pains
created the nile
I am a beautiful woman

I gazed on the forest and burned
out the sahara desert
with a packet of goat's meat
and a change of clothes
I crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle so swift
so swift you can't catch me

For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son hannibal an elephant
He gave me rome for mother's day
My strength flows ever on

My son noah built new/ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
as we sailed on a soft summer day
I turned myself into myself and was
jesus
men intone my loving name
All praises All praises
I am the one who would save

I sowed diamonds in my back yard
My bowels deliver uranium
the filings from my fingernails are
semi-precious jewels
On a trip north
I caught a cold and blew
My nose giving oil to the arab world
I am so hip even my errors are correct
I sailed west to reach east and had to round off
the earth as I went
The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid
across three continents

I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission

I mean...I...can fly
like a bird in the sky...”
― Nikki Giovanni

LETS GET THIS PARTY STARTED

THIS IS THE LAST YEAR I WILL BE IN MY "30'S" CELEBRATIONS WILL BE TAKING PLACE ALL YEAR...THE 1ST BEING A CARIBBEAN CRUISE WITH MY BFF!!!! WHOOT! IVE NEVER BEEN ON A CRUISE SHE & HER FRIENDS ARE PROS. I PLAN TO EAT DRINK & BE MERRY. IVE DECIDED THIS YEAR I WILL LIVE MY LIFE. I WILL NOT LET CIRCUMSTANCE, DRAMA, FINANCES, FRUSTRATION OR CONFUSION RULE MY WORLD. I WILL SMILE MORE, LAUGH LOT & LIVE LIFE. SO HERE'S TO MY BFF MS ROBINSON LETS DO THIS...HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOO...LET THE LADY FEBRUARY EXPERINCE BEGIN