HE

He is more than what the plain eye sees/

complex like the inner workings of computer circuitry it/

takes time to understand all that makes him who/ he is not what you call him but what he answers to/ intelligent, ambitious, courageous and beautiful/

rarely describes him and the things he does to compensate for the hand/ he's dealt with adversities and animosity thrown by adversaries/

and still you don't see the strength it takes for him to live as he/ is striving and yearning for a release of stigmas/ society likes to see failure prevail/ but only if his mind allows/ it shall be written anew that he will overcome that which limits you/

using his education and motivations he displays innovation to execute the root/ of the degradation and humiliation he faced during his youth/

composed of layers like shingled roofs/ he protects you from the harsh winds of hater and/ low blows no longer phase him cause mentally he knows/ the true power he holds is far more than physical/ their judgment doesn't define him/ because his success silences the masses/

he is an outlier in rare form/ not a product of a disadvantage/

no one taught him to be who he is/ only not to be where he lives/

like Vonage he breaks down walls separating him from the achievements others said didn't belong/ to him is uninspiring past propels him to be better than the coward of a father that left his mother when he was three/ better than the teachers that told him what he couldn't be/ and better than the expectations of his 8th ward community/

he's gone against the grain and done something insane/ he's created himself as an example of what it means to be/ the change needed on our urban communities/ and be the role model young boys don't see on tv/ his pants don't hang off his ass because he carries himself with class/ he doesn't call you out your name/ because he wasn't raised that way/

he is an educator, a mentor and the best father he can be/ as a lover and provider, he is the husband of his wife's dreams/ but out of all that he is & can be/ the one thing you fail to see/

is that he is the most lethal WMD/ because he is the African-American man/ that's living his life contrary to popular belief.
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-Mela` J

The Man (Lynch letter)

This system and society was not designed to empower those of us that look like you and me/ but rather to promote its prosperity through the eradication of our communities/ in 1712 limits were placed on me far before my conception became reality/ and 302 years later these methods have proven to be the most successful demise of a cultures identity/ but we as a people aren't the only ones who have suffered through some kind of adversity/ you see the Jews suffered through Hitler and his reign/ and the Indians battled through the pilgrims plagues/ cultures, identities, persons abused, battered and raped/ significance killed and their history blemished with the actions "the man" took to diminish their names/ and yet their history is rich and engraved with the stands and achievements they made to change the game/

So why do we/ my community continue to use "the man" as an excuse for the advancements we fail to obtain?/ why have we allowed 302 year old limits to become out name/ and regulate how we live and raise our children to this day/ If Lynch never wrote his letter would it still be this way?/ Sometimes I have to sit back and ask myself if the past is really still to blame?/I’ve read the Lynch letter and I know what is says/ It says to break the Black man, then break the Black woman, and in turn she'll raise the Black child, male or female, broken in their image/ put man against women, that is husband against wife/ field against house, that is dark against light/ old against young, that is wisdom verses ignorance/ then sit back and watch because this is the method by which you'll gain your slaves obedience/...

Ah, nail on the head, hammer strikes its blow/ the truth was hidden in writing and we all know how that story goes/ Lynch himself said his method was a guarantee/ so effective that the results would be prevalent for 100s of years to see/ he said to break the Black man take his mind/ strip one bare for all to see/ tar and feather him/ then to instill that they are weak/ bullwhip the observing males until death is nearly their defeat/ but make sure the women and children are there to see/ this intricate detail proved instrumental in breaking the black woman and thusly the black family/...

Because now the protective male image her Black man once was, she no longer sees/ and psychologically she has become frozen in a state of independency/ and instead of raising her children how they used to be/ out of fear she raises them in reverse psychology/ teaching her son to be mentally weak, which leaves him dependent, but strong physically/ and she raises her daughter to live in her frozen state of independency/ so they learn to protect the now psychologically submissive male/ and raise their children in the shadows of what men and women used to be/ hmm something about that is eerily familiar to me/...

The letter goes on to say to maintain your slave communities/ use crossbreeding to strip them of their natural identity/ create them in so many shades until they become confused about who they are/ and they become half of who they used to be/ they'll be forced to believe that what is told to them is true/ and their history will remain obsolete/ because their reality is that they are and will remain in your servitude/ and as long as you diminish their values, the only thing they'll have left to value is you/...

Now by this I’m confused/ since Black history and current events show me this is not true/ because if it were there would be no me, as I am today, and there would be no you/ civil rights would fail to have existed/ as would MLK and Malcolm X/ and you better believe Barak Obama would never have been president/ so having accomplished all this, it brings me back to say is the past really still to blame?/ why does is seem that as we progress one step, we regressing three?/ is it in order to maintain the ability to blame "the man" for initially raping us of our names, cultures, identity and prosperity?/...

Could it be that we remain ignorant to the system that was devised to keep us at bay/ because even though we are physically free our minds remain shackled and chained/ and the only way I see for us to truly be free and regain our identity/ is for us to better educate our children and stop repeating history mentally.

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-Mela` J.

Contrary to popular belief

 Over the past few months I've been slacking on my posts as life has gotten in the way, but I've come back with a bang! Below I have included links to 5 articles that I have come across so far that are showing our young African-American men in a rare light. No they have not fallen victim of a violet crime. No they are not being praised for amazing athletic ability. No they have not committed a crime and are wanted. No they are not any of the stereotypes that society would have you believe they are! These young men have made headlines for excellent academic achievements. These young men are the future of this nation and are heading in the right direction to make something of themselves other than what the nay sayers may have told them they could be. These young men are breaking barriers and pushing limits out of their way!
Something great is happening within our communities and it is up to us to nourish and encourage these kinds of achievements! We are more than our circumstance, more than our pasts, more than the limits we place on ourselves and its fine time that we realize this and strive together to prove this fact! The sky is never the limit, because limits tell you where to stop!


100% GRADUATION & COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE FOR THE 5TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR!!
http://blackamericaweb.com/2014/04/10/don-lemon-the-graduates-of-the-urban-academy-in-chicago-all-going-to-college/

Two stories about DC area young African-American men  getting accepted into ivy league universities!
 1)Triplet brothers deciding which school to attend
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/04/d_c_area_triplets_deciding_between_ivy_league_schools.html

2) This young man was accepted into 5 Ivy League schools
http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/25104147/five-ivy-colleges-vie-for-dc-student#axzz30PCISgvc

This story highlights a young man from Oakland, California with a 5.0 GPA & an SAT score of 2100
http://thefiiix.com/2014/04/07/oakland-teenager-akintunde-ahmad-has-5-0-gpa-2100-sat-score-and-on-his-way-to-ivy-league/

This young man was accepted into 8 Ivy League schools
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/education/2014/03/31/teen-accepted-to-all-ivy-league-colleges-universities/7133743/

This story highlights a young man accepted into 7 Ivy League schools
http://globalgrind.com/2014/04/24/north-carolina-teen-patrick-peoples-accepted-7-ivy-league-schools-details/#.U2KJhkd1U0k.facebook

cycle of thoughts

My writing is an expression of pure inner thought/
some of it experience but of it not / relevant to the life I/ live out fantasies from the deep, dark, depths of hidden/ thoughts of pleasure some times consume my mind/ and passion finds a way to intertwine/ with the pain that some how seems to be confined/ to the personal being that of which/ I am defined as an emotional creature trying to survive/
in a world of uncertainty/ that worries me to find where the future leads from the past/ behind the cold stares and hard exterior shell/ is a softy yearning for the one whom to tell the deepest darkest secrets/
while life prevails so does the shell and so does the feeling of a living hell/ I don't understand half of what I write/ cause what I write is a fight of the inner/ selfishness prevails as I try to heal/ from the past/
behind enemy lines is where my mind resides and feels confined because society around me is too blind/ to be able to consume and digest the thoughts/ I seem to find more of a reason to try and be just like you/
cause you seem to have the glue/ that holds you captive to the lines/ society has drawn out for/ you are nothing like the one my mother warned me about/ and it goes without a doubt to say/ I would never what to live out my life this way/
welded to the norms through a constricted identity/ and tragically this is all I see/ everyone trying to fit in like one entity/ saying that you're doing you/ but I see you as you follow the leader/ even though there's no leader to follow/ behind one another like fools with no education surpassing high school/ friends ask why don't I tweet/ and I reply cause I would be just like you/ following a bunch of people that have no clue/ left behind by blues plays in the background/
as I try to understand how I've become wound in the false security/ of  this great society/ that adds to my anxiety of why me/
stuck in a cycle of repetitive immorality that has no point at which to cease/ I step back, digress and breath/ as I watch everything around me cycle and increase with an intensity times three/
the only expression apparent to me is that of disbelief/ in the fact that no one seems to see/
the bigger problem contained within the basic norms of society/ that being a lack of integrity, morality, and individuality

Mela J`

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