The Portrayal

Remember, media is controlled by those who want certain images to be portrayed and certain beliefs to be spread and accepted. Look beyond, local news and find your own news. Yes, they want us to be viewed a certain way. Yes, negativity about us is disseminated more than the positive. However, we know the truth. We know who we are. We know what we are capable of. We know what we have done. We know what we continue to do.

Thessalonika Arzu-Embry is not an ordinary 14-year-old. She is getting ready to graduate from Chicago State University with a B.A. in Psychology. Read more about this amazing young lady here http://newsone.com/2635319/thessalonika-arzu-embry-graduates-college-at-14-video/

Understand that our portrayal is controlled by those who want us to continue to be deemed as inferior, violent, ignorant etc. However, we do not have to accept this portrayal. Use your life, accomplishments and struggle as a rebellion against the portrayal. Use your education as a vessel to others that the portrayal is false and that there are many positive stories of the greatness we do and are.

16 year old Temar Boggs saved five-year old Jocelyn Rojas from an abductor. Find this heroic but, not widely spread story here. http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/20/meet-temar-boggs-rescuer-of-a-kidnapped-little-girl/

Educate yourself, because we are not what they view us. We are what we make of ourselves. We are cloaked in strength and armed with the passion to succeed. We are implanted with resilience and determination. Do not let the neglect of the beauty of who we are and the negative portrayal of us negate who YOU are and WHAT you do. They do not define you, YOU DO! -M. Millie

 

Kier Wilmont: What Our Perseverance Can Do!

If we stand together, and demand respect, equal treatment, and protection, there is so much that can be accomplished.

16-year-old honor student Kiera Wilmont was expelled from her high school after she allegedly ignited a chemical explosion on school property. It was an accident, yet she was expelled from school and was charged with a felony.

The local community protested her imprisonment and expulsion.There was an online petition, petitioning Wilmont’s arrest. There was a hotline for people to call in support for Wimont and to help urge the local police to drop the charges. Angelle Wolf also created an online donation site, for people to donate to Wilmont’s family.

The felony charges were dropped. Her record remains clean now.Wilmont and her twin sister Kayla were funded to go to Space Camp.  She has also received a full scholarship to the U.S. Space Academy, courtesy of a NASA veteran who, as a teenager, was accused of starting a forest fire during a science experiment.

So much can be done, if we mobilize ourselves towards changing our circumstance, and stand up for those of us who have been wrong. That is what the community and a few people who felt Kiera WIlmont’s persecution for a science experiment was wrong. Her community and these passionate individuals enabled her to get a scholarship to the U.S, Space Academy. These people’s efforts enabled this young girl’s charges to be dropped and for her to have a clear record, thus allowing her to have her life back.

This same mobilization gained us the right to vote. sit wherever we want on the bus, become lawyers, doctors etc.

The same mobilization enabled us to stop discrimination in jobs, It enabled us to fight for the same rights as every other human being.

The fight is far from over. Everyday we as a black race find ourselves still mentally, emotionally, physically oppressed by a system that sees us as lesser than. Everyday we see our communities ravished by ourselves, but by puppet strings that create circumstance for us to stay subjugated.

Perseverance is within us. We have to believe that we can still change our circumstance. Our fight towards freedom and equality should not end. Our protection and liberties is still a work in progress.

Ignite the passion within yourself to create change. You possess the power of resilience in your veins. Tap into it, reflect on the strength of our ancestors and become mobilized. -M. Millie

Disgusting! But, I am not surprised!

Disgusting! Yet, I am not surprised.

NYC Principal Minerva Zanca of Pan American International High School is reported to have described two black high school teachers as nappy headed. big lipped gorillas, before firing them.

Principal Minerva Zanca

This is a sad story. As, you all know I am a NYC teacher. However, I teach preschool in a private school. I do not encounter the same dynamics that others may encounter in public schools. I am also fortunate enough to work for a Black Owned Business.

Family, for every Paula Deen there are 50,000 other just like her. Racism is not over. Racism is subdued. Racism is hidden behind political correctness, but it is still alive. After years of slavery, jim crow, protests, etc. there is a popular belief that we black people are inferior and lesser than. We are called animals. our hair and facial features are degraded.

I truly believe that we should not adopt a separatist attitude, but a togetherness attitude. However, before we do that we have to rid ourselves of the self hate we have for ourselves. We have to love our blackness. We have to love each other. We have to support black owned business,and own more within our communities. We have to go out and vote and actively participate in the running of our communities and government. We have to learn our history and teach our children, so they can learn the truth about who they are, thus allowing them to deny the lies of who they are from oppressing them. We will also let the shackles of self doubt and self hatred die as well.

Yes. we have all heard this before. We have all heard this constant talk of love, togetherness, economic power etc. However, how many of you have actually taken steps to help establish better conditions for yourself and our race in general?

How many of you have went out and voted, supported black owned businesses, let go of the slave mentality etc? Many of us say what we NEED to do in the community. Many of us think it? MANY of us write it, many of us talk about it. However, many of us do not act. Many of us do not live it.

Yes, many of our people are not enlightened. Yes, many of our people do not understand and are lost. However, for each one of us that is enlightened, that understands, we have the power to change and create so much.

Do not stay idle and watch our people stay in redundancy. Live and create change. Your efforts create a chain of influence that will eventually reach all of us and stimulate progress. ~Know Your Worth~ -M. Millie

Read the article here http://breakingbrown.com/2013/07/principal-allegedly-called-black-teachers-nappy-headed-big-lipped-and-gorillas-before-firing-them/

UPDATE!!!! There is a petition on change.org to get this racist principal fired. You can find it below. Please sign it and share it http://www.change.org/petitions/nyc-chancellor-dennis-walcott-help-us-terminate-principal-minerva-zanca-of-pan-american-international-high-school -M. Millie