#onaje'sthoughts

[kinginmyownmind]

"We were not born to be miserable and to fail. We are a success story waiting to be realized as soon as the seed was fertilized."

Onaje Malik [2001]

[kinginmyownmind]

Is This World Our Best Option...Evil Outweighs The Good?

Hate is hate and violence never makes sense...no spin needed and no hashtag should be needed to understand this.

We do such a great job of carefully dividing ourselves into these little subcategories of humanity...so much so that when one of these "communities" are affected by any level of oppression or tragedy it is so easy to not see ourselves in them, speak for them, stand with them...

Domestic terrorism in America is a cultural norm...it is funded, backed by law, written as a strategic means to disolve citizen's resolve to reform oppression (or just exist) and then when it is clearly displayed it is called by some other name and the perpetrators of the "crime" are carefully taken in for debrief...the murderers are humanized more than the should be victims.

That's how it looks/feels...at some point we have to just believe what this country is. So when we see citizens storming Capitols there is measure of truth in those misdirected outburst. Distill out the entitlement and willful ignorance from it...Citizens have every right to be pissed off! Fighting for crumbs while disposal of whole meals are being guarded behind the gate to fully perish.

Why is it that the economy being stimulated the highest priority repeatedly?!? Moral stimulus, educational stimulus, nutritional stimulus, Healthcare stimulus...so many areas way more in need of emergency attention...too.

Humanity shouldn't be secondary to economics, but hell maybe they privatized what it is to be Human as well and many of us just missed that play...like fresh water resources, GMO standards, and in time I suspect the very air we breathe.

Peace and protection to all...connect to your loved ones, say what you feel, try to secure your progeny's future as best you can...form a village and protect it. We are over taxed, undeserved and should be out of patience...

Has to be a better way or place...

[kinginmyownmind]

I contend that voting is more like a carnival game than an exercise of knowledge and action! Step right up and pull the lever!! You too can be a participant in a system so vastly muddied and disorganized that you can't see how it works! Hey there you look like you love your country...you give 50% of your hard earned income back to this very system that could care less if you live, die, suffer, or survive...you mine as well cash in your contribution by waiting in this line to cast a vote for people you don't really need to know and who also have little accountability to the very oaths they take to serve the people of the United States..,Come on over and collect on your privilege and right :-( Cynicism is not the same as being critical. We aren't critical enough of our government. We have been neutered into being unable to birth new thoughts that grow strong to add more to the world than less face to face connection or new ways to exploit the less fortunate.

Onajé Malik Lott

[kinginmyownmind]

The Illusions of Fear Breeds Procrastination

I was listening to a few interviews and lectures by Will Smith, Dick Gregory,  Louis Farrakhan, and Cornell West. It was a lot language around hope, awareness,  recognition, the power in positivity, and the power that exist in humanity  despite a painful past. It lead me to many feelings and thoughts. I wanted to  share a few in case others are on a similar journey... I'm searching for a new mode of attack to get beyond the denial of my own fears  and to move beyond the externally ascribed and internally accepted limitations  to achievement... If you let your fear get the best of you then to the people around you that fear  will appear to be the best of you. I just cannot live with that being my legacy.  The world doesn't need more fearful people. We need more courageous leaders who  dream and act with conviction. We chant and sing change, we cheer change, we say  we want/need change, but are we being change? I have been on a fence. I was  called out and humbled by this. This will no longer do. I owe more and we all  owe more to one another.  "You can't look at dreams as this Big wall to build. You have to take the  approach that you are going to lay this one brick as perfect as you can, then  repeat that day after day until eventually you will have that wall...Don't get  discouraged by the enormity of the task. Nothing is too great" This is all to encourage that spirit of desire within. We should be able to see  our better selves in the eyes of our loved ones. If we really appreciate that  image then we will aspire to do more. My growth is a collective pursuit, because  my growth is due to the collective influence of those that love me and those  that don't understand me (there are no haters). Live it. Struggle with it. Overcome it. Believe in it. Enjoy it. It is life and  we all are in it briefly. Why be wasteful? Till~

Onajé Malik Lott (King In My Own Mind)