No justice no peace? Well ignorance is the greatest injustice we have.

http://michigancitizen.com/court-rules-michigan-has-no-responsibility-to-provide-quality-public-education/

So, apparently we don't actually have to educate children.  I have always been a social Darwinist, a jaded cynical educator with radical ideas which are the product of venting. But this is real! Try your best and if the kids are dumb oh well? Move to a better neighborhood?  Don't be poor?

As teachers, we get a bum wrap, the shaft, thrown under the bus, insert idiom at infinitum, but we have to try. If we say it is OK not to educate our poorest children in the same month we say it's ok to kill them what future do we have?

In writing most people insert quotes from powerful or notable figures to prove their point. It carries weight and clout. I will say this: the greatness of a people is measure not by its upper echelon but by its lowest caste. Notice that it's not in quotes... why? Because I said it, you can quote me. The treatment of our poorest children is the barometer by which we should judge ourselves. If we choose to or let others kill and incarcerate them instead of educate them who are we?

My black boys

I will raise them to be smart. I will raise them to be kind. I will raise them to be respectful.  I will raise them to be loving. I will raise them to be skeptical. I will raise them to be wary. I will raise them to be aware.

I will raise them to have intellect. I will raise them to have integrity.  I will raise them to have patience.  I will raise them to have fear. I will raise them to have humility.  I will raise them to have persistence. 

I will raise them to be smart enough to know danger no matter what face or uniform it wears.
I will raise them to be kind to those who may not be kind to them.
I will raise them to be respectful to any and all authority figures even if they are not respectful to you. 
I will raise them to be loving to the neighbor who misjudge them.
I will raise them to be skeptical of all information from sources friendly and foreign.
I will raise them to be wary of all actions and statement a of others.
I will raise them to be aware of all peo o let and surroundings.

I will raise them to have intellect so that they can decipher ignorance and conjecture from knowledge and truth.
I will raise them to have integrity so that they uphold the law of right when others fail to do so. 
I will raise them to have patience so that they can suffer all the injustice they will face. 
I will raise them to have fear because it is the basest and most natural indicator of danger.
I will raise them to have humility so they will always be seen for who they are not what they do. 
I will raise them to have persistence because they must succeed in a system that was not designed for them.

Heads high, minds open, heart pure, and unfortunately hands up. That's how I will raise my black boys. I want them to survive long enough to change this, so this is not how they have to raise their black boys.

Ferguson

I should blog this, and it will fuck up my notifications but... a grand jury is supposed to see if the evidence should be brought to trial and can get a conviction. Putting him on trial would not bring a conviction.  All that has to be proven is he feared for his life. How can we prove he didn't fear for his life? The law is fucked up.

But all the black people complaining, how many of ya'll voted in the midterm elections? Statistically, most of the disenfranchising laws are passed during midterms, not presidential elections. You want to change the system? First participate then protest.

Willful ignorance kills more of us daily then cops crack and crime. No human has the right to take another humans life, but the laws are to blame when he gets away with it. The death is on him, the lack of indictment is on us.

Bill and Bull

Stop being blind! Whether the rape allegations against Bill Cosby are true they bring up a sad truth: people still doubt rape. They are highly skeptical. I've read more criticism than open minded maybe and I don't knows. I real life I am pleasantly surprised when I meet, a women over 30 who says she hasn't been raped or molested. 1 in 3 people! And 1 in 10 are reported. I'm not saying it happened I honestly don't know, but I know I could have. Any man could be a rapist, and any female could be a victim statistically.