Portland, OR celebration Week: Professor Griff
January 16, 2018 Reality in consciousness HISTORY IN THE NOW Celebrating our ancestors is an everyday acknowledgement and honor. We are mature enough to understand that their recognition is not meant for a one day out of the year holiday event to consider their sacrifices, strength, intellect, and leadership qualities. Dr. King and many others stood- up to the government’s hostility and hate directed towards the melaninated individuals in the U.S. that continue to still abruptly perpetuate today a population of only 14% of “black” people http://blackdemographics.com/ . What I find even more disturbing around this time is the fact that some will go as far as to putting forth the initiative to shop the MLK deals of the week at mattress and furniture stores, further rocking indigenous/melaninated peoples back to sleep in their participation, but those are just my thoughts to what I see. I do resume in knowing how it’s important to see the communities around us celebra...
