Ranting for a prayer…
So I have had ten months to write… something.
But then here is my excuse for not doing it.
When one thinks about writing for the blog, I think: it is a gruesome, over-ratted experience much like sex. Many will say: those who do not enjoy sex, will say it is overrated. [Sex is still overrated. - I enjoy it by the way]
And I do think writing up a blog is overrated... and self indulgent.
Now that I have gotten over my issues about writing, let’s get into what is on my mind.
A ranting for a prayer...
All my life I was raised in a church, moved from one to the other. Church: where the need to pray was and is always imperative. I was named prayer by my father without him knowing... Ah I’m exposing myself. [Self indulgent prick I am]
Here are some thoughts. Write like a journalist? No... Write like a need.
In a week’s time the world will be celebrating the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 100th of such ceremonies in the world. The idea of these games it to what? Link the world??
Anyway, while trying to understand the whole Olympics craze an image captured me. I found it on one of those news site galleries on moments of Olympic over the years.
The 1968 Black Power Salute at the Olympics in Mexico City. Okay let’s explain what happened. Okay this is courtesy of Wikipedia man…
On the morning of October 16, 1968 Black-American athlete Tommie Smith won the 200 metre race race in then-world-record time of 19.83 seconds, with Australia's Peter Norman second with a time of 20.06 seconds, and Black-American Carlos in third place. After the race was completed, the three went to collect their medals at the podium. The two American athletes received their medals shoeless, but wearing black socks, to represent black poverty.Smith wore a black scarf around his neck to represent black pride. Carlos wore beads which he described "were for those individuals that were lynched, or killed that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred. It was for those thrown off the side of the boats in the middle passage." All three athletes wore Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) badges, after Norman expressed sympathy with their ideals.
As the American National anthen played, Smith and Carlos delivered the salute with heads bowed, a gesture which became front page news around the world. As they left the podium they were booed by the crowd.
Smith later said "If I win, I am American, not a black American. But if I did something bad, then they would say I am a Negro. We are black and we are proud of being black. Black America will understand what we did tonight."
This image fills one with pride, with the eagerness to pray.
Entreat all black…because I for one when I was faced with this image I had to think about the impact and the response of such an action at the time of a racist world.
You know we cannot but pray. You see I’m not a victim of a white racist society but I need to pray… pray that I lest forget top create a world for me and my black people. Not a world made by, created for white.
There is a need to pray, that Africans, everywhere in the world will realise the need to be working for their kind. That even though there is a God in heaven who cares about us, he also cares deeply for those who don’t care bout us.
We serve only ourselves. SO we need to pray, call upon and supplicate the power that be… that black power is … and will.
I know I must pray for all black men, for black women and in their day to day struggles for a good life. That black power speaks to us in loud shouts, which have gone through out the decades to reach me. An image that speaks words of success in racial pride and the creation of black political, those two black men stood up and won in the world, and stayed true to their struggle and cause.
Ahh a prayer to promote and nurture black interest and advance black values…
Ahh "Black Power" – a defence against racial oppression.
The salute of the raised fist means so much to many
That even when one has won, and achieved in this world whiteness… you do not forget that loose sight of the brown people not wearing pink shirts, not driving debt-filled cars..
Ow… a need to pray.
To be continued….
But then here is my excuse for not doing it.
When one thinks about writing for the blog, I think: it is a gruesome, over-ratted experience much like sex. Many will say: those who do not enjoy sex, will say it is overrated. [Sex is still overrated. - I enjoy it by the way]
And I do think writing up a blog is overrated... and self indulgent.
Now that I have gotten over my issues about writing, let’s get into what is on my mind.
A ranting for a prayer...
All my life I was raised in a church, moved from one to the other. Church: where the need to pray was and is always imperative. I was named prayer by my father without him knowing... Ah I’m exposing myself. [Self indulgent prick I am]
Here are some thoughts. Write like a journalist? No... Write like a need.
In a week’s time the world will be celebrating the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 100th of such ceremonies in the world. The idea of these games it to what? Link the world??
Anyway, while trying to understand the whole Olympics craze an image captured me. I found it on one of those news site galleries on moments of Olympic over the years.
The 1968 Black Power Salute at the Olympics in Mexico City. Okay let’s explain what happened. Okay this is courtesy of Wikipedia man…On the morning of October 16, 1968 Black-American athlete Tommie Smith won the 200 metre race race in then-world-record time of 19.83 seconds, with Australia's Peter Norman second with a time of 20.06 seconds, and Black-American Carlos in third place. After the race was completed, the three went to collect their medals at the podium. The two American athletes received their medals shoeless, but wearing black socks, to represent black poverty.Smith wore a black scarf around his neck to represent black pride. Carlos wore beads which he described "were for those individuals that were lynched, or killed that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred. It was for those thrown off the side of the boats in the middle passage." All three athletes wore Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) badges, after Norman expressed sympathy with their ideals.
As the American National anthen played, Smith and Carlos delivered the salute with heads bowed, a gesture which became front page news around the world. As they left the podium they were booed by the crowd.
Smith later said "If I win, I am American, not a black American. But if I did something bad, then they would say I am a Negro. We are black and we are proud of being black. Black America will understand what we did tonight."
This image fills one with pride, with the eagerness to pray.
Entreat all black…because I for one when I was faced with this image I had to think about the impact and the response of such an action at the time of a racist world.
You know we cannot but pray. You see I’m not a victim of a white racist society but I need to pray… pray that I lest forget top create a world for me and my black people. Not a world made by, created for white.
There is a need to pray, that Africans, everywhere in the world will realise the need to be working for their kind. That even though there is a God in heaven who cares about us, he also cares deeply for those who don’t care bout us.
We serve only ourselves. SO we need to pray, call upon and supplicate the power that be… that black power is … and will.
I know I must pray for all black men, for black women and in their day to day struggles for a good life. That black power speaks to us in loud shouts, which have gone through out the decades to reach me. An image that speaks words of success in racial pride and the creation of black political, those two black men stood up and won in the world, and stayed true to their struggle and cause.
Ahh a prayer to promote and nurture black interest and advance black values…
Ahh "Black Power" – a defence against racial oppression.
The salute of the raised fist means so much to many
That even when one has won, and achieved in this world whiteness… you do not forget that loose sight of the brown people not wearing pink shirts, not driving debt-filled cars..
Ow… a need to pray.
To be continued….
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