Monday, May 29, 2023

A Message from August 2016 - From a Black Woman in Her 70s

 Therefore, when I moved here, like anyplace that I have ever lived, I became a contributing member of my community, and one of the first things I did, because I am living on a fixed income and did not have money to contribute more than just the minimum $50 annual donation that the Sterling Volunteer Fire Department asked for,  at 67 years old I became a member of the Sterling Volunteer Fire Company, of which there were only 5 "Blacks" and may still only be 5 Blacks out of this entire Sterling population.  And, because I was on a fixed income, until I was diagnosed with PMR in 2012 - 2013 I  was a Volunteer Ranger at Wolf Trap, and out of thousands of Wolf Trap Volunteers, the 1300 Usher staff have only 2 Blacks, and out of the Rangers there were 3 including me.  Does that give you a general idea of how Blacks and other "TAKERS" live their lives, but yet are always looking for something from someone else, and "get over" when they think no one is looking.  You impress me as one of them.

"HELLO" what's wrong with that picture.  So I ask you, "Where do Black Lives Matter?" If Black lives don't matter to Blacks at the level of service to the communities where they live beyond partying, playing pro ball ball, fashion or getting dressed to the "T" to drive in the newest cars to go to church on Sunday, Black lives don't seem to matter to them in their own neighborhoods where they live, so why would or should anyone else [many of whom are first immigrants who have come to this country looking for a better way of life that Blacks are still 400 years after the fact still trying to make a case for being brought here as slaves, as were many Asians and other ethnic group, etc.  Therefore, when other ethnicities even today are still risking their lives to come here looking for a better life and band together and open businesses, nail saloons, cleaners, etc., and enhance the neighborhoods where they live.  I just relocated from a community in Queens which has become so drug infested that there isn't even a grocery store in it. There is a place for eveyone, except for people that don't want a place here, then they should consider returning to the place where they feel they fit in their countries and if it is Africa so be it, but as long as they are in this country USA.  They need to care more about the quality of the lives that Blacks and themselves have created for themselves.  I am a product of the Civil Rights era, and was responsible for many of the changes that back then mattered to us and our lives, that was then demonstrated in the communities that Blacks themselves either allowed to deteriorate or they destroyed their neighborhoods and allwed them to go into disrepair because they NEVER held themselves or their fellows accountable.  They didn't back then, and they don't do it today. e.g.  riots, fires, murdering each other, drugs, etc.  when they should be using their "Black Lives Matter" strengths to join together and go from Black neighborhood to Black neighborhood [WITHOUT ANY FEDERAL FUNDS or notoriety] and begin to rebuild their own communities themselves.  Start their own volunteer Fire/Rescue and Axilery Police.  Then Blacks cant't say that they are being discriminated against, because they will become self supporting through their own contributions; or the lack there of, etc.


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