On Being Black...and poor, and sad, and depressed and lonely and....in America!

I know I'm a little late but here's my, "On Being Black in America Post"...

I've had several discussions with friends about the CNN special on Being Black in America. Most in some form or fashion were "put off" by the so called "special"...me, I was disappointed to say the least. I mean, it was one long negative statistical stew. After the first night, I really didn't want anymore...I feared if I listened any further I would need to be put on suicide watch. I mean according to CNN I don't have many reasons for going on...I can look forward to no man, no money, more struggles, a community riddled with drugs and poverty, and absent of positive male role models 'cause they are all in jail or just don't give a damn, children who will under perform children in third world countries, blah, blah, blah....too much...too much.

Moreover, most black folks have heard all of that before...many times! Nothing new. Something "special" would have been to offer solutions, highlight opportunities, provide positive topics for some real solution driven dialog. And by the way, is Soledad black? I'm just askin'?

I had enough after that first night of mess. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would have my eyes cocked by now saying, "see they be tryin' to systematically and subliminally feed us this mind poison so we are defeated before we even come out the gate..."

I spent my Thursday night at the Sanaa Art Gallery trying to recover. I think I'm o.k. I think I can put the shoe laces back in my sneakers and put the medicine back in the cabinet. Suicide watch is over...at least until CNN and Soledad decide to do a special on Being Left Handed in America...then who knows.