There's a lot of love and support for Iran at the moment. OK fine!That being said I spend a lot of time on Twitter on the Blackberry. A big addiction of mine. And all day every day tweet, tweet, tweet about Iran. God give me strength, I'm this close to Iran overload, to the point of I don't even want to know anything else about the situation at present. As they say, sometimes too much, is just too much.
Aside from that I noticed some interesting tweets, one in particular that caught my eye was one headlining about Black owned beauty supply shops getting no love from black customers. And with that, I thought about this Iran situation.
"We rarely support our own, from businesses to political and social troubles."
I have never seen so many black folks jump on a cause in my life with such passion. Everybody's talking about it. Fair enough, it's news, why not.
But you know what gets me? When a big ass crisis is going on in Africa, not a damn thing is going on in trying to garner attention amongst our own, let alone support. My God, just yesterday I got pissy in a tweet just to get a ReTweet of a missing black child in the US. For fuck sake, a headline pops up about Iran and bam ReTweeted with a quickness. One of ours goes missing, hardly a peep. [That child was found]. Although another one went missing again a 2 year old. I checked my tweets hardly any ReTweets. Thanks to the ones that did. It's less than 5 clicks to ReTweet. Twitter is mobile, who's to say someone doesn't read the story see a picture and spot the child in their area whilst they are about....I digress **HUGE sigh** The thought of a 2 year old baby breaks my heart. Black missing kids are hardly reported we need to do what we can to get that news out there and HELP OUR OWN when THEY [mainstream] ISN'T!
Today @BlackSolutions on Twitter posted a question about the whole blacks and their involvement/support on Iran 'trend' and wanted people's views on it. Interestingly enough there were a few people who had the mindset and mentality of "well when we needed help and support, no one was coming together to help us [blacks] as a people" and others saying "we need to help our own before we help others."I'm in 2 minds when it comes to support of global nations.
1. is to do the Christian thing and help/support others regardless of creed, colour and race.
2. is to help/support our own people around the world and bring stories and struggles that are left on the back burner and bring them to the forefront.
People are dying brutally at the hands of governments and regimes all over the world, I understand that. But to be honest I'd be seriously having a WTF moment with black folks who have never batted an eyelid at anything that's gone down/going down in places like South Africa or Zimbabwe as examples.
Speaking of Zimbabwe Bodyform have a cause called Dignity! Period to help the women who cannot afford sanitary protection and are developing cancer by using dirty rags and newspapers whilst on their period. Imagine that? More than double the monthly wage for sanitary towels.
I'm not saying to hell with the rest of the world, especially the ones who aren't black, but TRUST me I'll be watching closely when some big news breaks about some serious BS going on in Africa and see how quickly, how many black folks jump on the support bandwagon.
One thing I've noticed about US as a people is our LACK of support as a community over many things from the smallest to the biggest. We're quick to help others and line the pockets of races selling OUR products to us, yet don't do a damn thing for one another.
You've got the Internet to be reading this, read an online newspaper for goodness sake, whether it's Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Africa. But don't support one cause and not be informed of others that affect your OWN people. Remember in the Western world, plenty of blacks were under water in New Orleans and the US President at the time turned his back for 4 whole days. It's the same the world over. That man [Bush] was an example of how the world is when we as a people are in need....absent and blind eyed. If you're Asian [tsunami] you get donations pouring in with a quickness amounting to hundreds of millions. When you're black you gotta scream to be heard.
Blacks = Ignored. We have to start looking out for one another more from households to communities to on a global scale.












































