I am home now for Thanksgiving Break. I have been home since Thursday afternoon. There have been two epsiodes since I have been home that makes me shake my head at Black people at times. I may be criticized but oh well. I have to call it how I see it.
The first episode was on Thursday nite when I went out to a nite club called Hammerjacks here in Baltimore. The night was going well. There were fine women dancing, the music was great, and there was a nice sized crowd. As the evening progresses, a fight breaks out. People are throwing shit and all. The DJ encourages this shit to keep happening. The fight is handled and the nite goes on. Then another fight breaks out. This time it is a bunch of females involved. We all know how this can go. There is hair pulling, shoe throwing, and all that good ish. This ends up closing the club. Mayhem erupts outside. Bouncers are fighting patrons and all that. Police are involved and all. It was ugly.
Whu cant Black people go out and have a good time without fighting?? WHY WE GOTTA ACT A FOOL ON PUBLIC!!.= I cannot believe it. Im just sick and tired of it. The fight made me feel like I just did not fit in with this crowd. It is sad when I feel like I dont fit in with my own people.
The second episode was when I led a forum on Friday morning. It was at a private high school conference on diversity held ata church. The young people there were rude. They were cussing in the church itself. The boys almost started a fight. There was loud talking when other people were talking. And the Black kids were making racist comments!! How are you going to be making racist comments at a diversity conference?!?!?!?!? It was insane. Then the ideas the people came up with to help make things better at their schools were bullshit. All these kids said were that they would promote diversity. Wow. These are private and high school kids. I know they are smarter than that. I was soooooooo disappointed at the lack of initiative and the lack of innovative ideas. These kids have to do better. I felt as if there is no hope for the private schools in Bsltimore. When I left, my graduating class had made sooooo many improvements. Not only in my school but at other schools. Now I feel as if all the work we put in went down the drain. When I was in high school, not tooooo long ago, we all valued the time we had at the conference. We took advantage of it. That time was used to come up with pragmatic ideas. Now, these kids just use it as an excuse to get out of school. All I have to say is that the quality of Black students in the private school system is going down. I do not know why.
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Now those at Hammerjacks needed to act like they had some home training. That's all I got for that one.
There was an excellent discussion on my side of the sanctuary. Maybe it's because I was over there. No, but honestly the McDers had some excellent things to say. They made me proud, but at the same time I realized that they cannot do much without my constant support and mentorship. I know that having a person there whose been there and done that can hopefully serve as an inspiration to them. We have to help them all be the change they wish to see. We can't just have change for the sake of change, but instead change so that there is eventual progress.
-Christopher
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The only time I went to Hammerjacks, five minutes after we got there a dude punched a girl in the face like she was a man. I was through. Is that how y'all do it in Bmore? And this is a nice club!!
That's why I prefer going out in DC. Its so much easier to find like-minded young black professionals/college people- you know the ones that like to party but not fight. Clearly I'm not tryin to hang w/people that want to bring a gun to the club.
Conference- That's exactly why you have to keep going back. So your hard work was not in vain. And because if no one takes time, the backsliding will continue.
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