Black History Month

"I have a scar on my back I got when I was a slave...You have people out there with this scar on their brains..."

I waited until the last day of February to write about Black History month because I really wanted to see if the entire month would go by without anyone saying anything about our race's entire month, and it sadly, it did. I am so disappointed with our generation current state. They are so lazy and will settle for anything, even if it means compromising a piece of themselves for that. Throughout this entire month, I saw very little people even mention anything at all about Black History month. It was a trending topic on twitter for about a day and that was it. Did people forget that this is our heritage month? Did they forget all that we went through to get where we are? Why forget what our ancestors went through? Their pain, their struggle, their sacrifice, their embarrassment and humiliation? But most important, their achievements? Without our forefathers doing what they have done before our time, NO ONE would be in the state that they are in now! So why hasn't there by a celebration of some sort? A festival? A poetry speaking even?
My generation and the generation after me, sad to say, is just too damn complacent where we are. They figured because we have come this far, we have a black president, that we have arrived and that we can simply disregard everything that took place before our time, even though that is exactly what got us where we are today. THAT WOULD BE THE DUMBEST SHIT IVE HEARD IN A LONG ASS TIME!
You never should feel like we've come far enough, that we have done enough. Yes we have come a long way, but we still, in fact, have a long way to go! It saddens my heart when our youth, our Black community, lets the entire month of February just slip on by them without giving thanks of knowledge to all those before us. It saddens me. Sometimes I feel hopeful for our race but other times, times like this, when I see that we still have alot of work to do and no one is willingly to give a helping hand....I lose a little bit of faith in my heart. Where are our leaders of tv of this generation? Lil Wayne, Drake, Gucci, J. Cole, they are cool, they are nice artists....but leaders of the African American race, they are NOT.
As an entire race, we HAVE to do better. No, we MUST do better. If we disregard a month that is dedicated to us and we are African American, how do you feel the white counter parts will feel? Yes we took a giant step forward by having a (half) black president in office, but we also have taken ten small steps back by simply not celebrating our history, knowing our history, and acknowledging this month for what it is.
I am sadly disappointed.
Black people, four words: WE MUST DO BETTER.
If we want a better future for our youth, we have to make those changes and make it happen. We already know from our history that NOTHING is given to us! We have to demand it and fight for it. Why would things be any different now?