made in america

[gavriella (patricia smith)]

POST VIEW

"Made In America"

In the year of "Our Lord," i am told it is 2016. Looking back through the annals of my mind, i recall as a child, people would laugh and poke fun at you if you received something made in Japan.  America had the best, and was the first in innovation and invention.  Born in 1956, World Fairs, circuses, fast cars, and new and exciting gadgets, as well as some of the tallest skyscrapers, and the rapid creation of suburbs, to help the woman of the house enjoy more leisure time to do things she wanted to do.  Yes made in America was a badge of honor, a source of pride.

Reflection, without fear, without emotion, without hesitation gives me an honest assessment of 2016.  Today, "Made in America" has become a joke.  Japan, Germany, China and other nations practice perfection in education, technology, science and other.  The art of war alone is still number one in America.

Although i have witnessed these shifts in the nuances of today, i want  but to touch on the trends and downward spirals my people, "Negroes" have accepted, embraced and perpetrated.  I want to elucidate just a bit on what "Made In America"  means for us in 2016.

"Made in America" for Negroes is like sitting in a barrel of brine.  They have let us ferment and foment since our so called emancipation.  May-be America has slipped in it's place as leaders in innovations and being the promise land, the so called mecca of wealth and overall happiness, because it has spent so many man hours using every tactic it could to assure and insure Negroes have become all they should not be,

Growing up in America i watched as we left the places that would and did afford us survival in an inadvertently hostile environment. We migrated in record numbers to the cities,and places we were told would be paved with gold.  Some put their noses to the grindstone but they were softly, yet sternly directed to forget.  As white hoods were substituted for smiles, they were lulled into a false sense of arrival.  They forgot the need to stay connected and united.  Trinkets and education, as well as the sense of privilege further soured and separated our younger generations, no longer the mainstay of our continuity, as a beautiful, courageous, and spiritual people, but they have become the outcome of our avarice, our concupiscence, and our habitual lethargy.  The slumber that was "Made in America."  I watched as fathers left their stations, their places of value in the homes.  I watched as mother"s unsuspectingly left their places at home and sought careers "frying it up in the pan and never letting them forget their  the man."  Yet  our children our children languished, our children turned from us because we have lost the way.  Yes indeed "Made in America."

A once proud and abused people are now an abused and broken people.  Now we wait to be dis-guarded as we do with "broken" things. Remember in the words of the book entitled, "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley. "Ending is better than mending."   No longer are our examples, brave, caring, honest and long suffering, now we have been reduced to, "baby-mommas, baby-daddies, b-----s, dawgs, come-ups and so on's.  The last battle ground we were left to  is being attacked and that is reproduction.  Reduced, reworked, rended and dissolved.  

Now we are but shells, ghosts of a dying or deconstructed civilization.  Yet with the well thought out, fostered saying "forget the past," we are becoming a doomed generation.  One that would take only Divine intervention to save what has not been destroyed, in the "Making of America."  If this indeed is the outcome America has purposely set out to produce with the help of our privileged Negro community, i stand strong and say job well done, a mission accomplished.

Last but not least i applaud those of our past who have given their lives willingly and unwillingly to try to awaken and reverse the manufacturing process if today's Negroes.  I also give kudos to all who insist on speaking the unspoken.  I commend those who are willing to be beaten and scorned as our prophets of old were commissioned to do.  At least for "us" this is the one last thing "Made In America."  

[Kelila]

An excellent analysis of our plight.