VETTA VLOGGIN' #21AMERICAN VIOLET (Please comment on this)

Thank God for Barack but what are WE gonna do? Are we willing to die? Ok, fine, will we at least fight???

Please...

James Hannah

I will go see this movie and decide what to say or do from there.

April 19 at 6:39pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

First and foremost, you have to understand the challenges and consequences. You can't be to quick to react. When competing in America against an impenetrable force, I meant we are the visiting team. The home team always gets the last licks. Its a losing battle. I feel.

April 19 at 7:01pm · Delete

Vetta Sherwood

really?

April 19 at 7:27pm · Delete

Rarin Ole Sein

http://www.americanviolet.com/

April 19 at 7:40pm · Delete

James Hannah

I disagree. That's what this racist system/matrix wants you to think, Andrew. I know this sounds super corny, but we have to keep hope alive.

April 19 at 7:42pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

I agree 100% James & Vetta Hope should and will stay alive! but there is always going to be a "But" in every situation. I am all for a change, but I have to be candid. I don't want to just agree and be cool and say I am down for whatever promotes a positive change. Its just daunting to respond to this, with just one set of answers. I am ... Read More

April 19 at 8:01pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

I hope I didn't make anybody mad. This is a very delicate situation. And some people don't even know the seriousness of it. They just want to say, yeah lets do this. lots of people just want to see chaos. Its not about a tooth for a tooth.

April 19 at 8:06pm · Delete

Dwayne Royster

I just watched the vlog, and all I can say that when you say fight, we first need to start by not fighting each other.
We cannot even get togther and be united because some of us are so self centered that we do not even see the ammunition that is being used against us every day.
I agree with Andrew we are the visting team, and not even the ... Read More

April 19 at 8:51pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

Yes. Yes. That's right Dwayne That's what a lot of Black people are doing to each other. Hedonists of the world, need to unite!

April 19 at 9:10pm · Delete

Daryl King Dobson

Powerful! Thanks for the add.. I heard Sana say your name in one of her vlogs. So I requested...

EDUCATION and Knowledge is the key.. Everything that's happening or has happened was strategically set up years and years ago. I can't say too much on these vlogs. But everyone needs to OPEN there eyes and truly see how the country and the world operates. The world fears us that's why they continuously seek to destroy us.

April 19 at 9:27pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

Daryl, unity is the key! The world does not fear us (as a whole). We envy and hate each other. The number one cause of death of Black men between the ages of 16 to 25 is another Black man.

April 19 at 9:46pm · Delete

Dwayne Royster

Daryl we fear us, when will we get together and stop talking about our swagger and talk about how we can reach our children, when will we stop trying to get the approval of white people and love ourselves, when will we stop letting other races move into our communities and move us out, it doesn't sound like fear to me, It sounds like we fear them.

April 19 at 9:50pm · Delete

Vetta Sherwood

We are conditioned from birth. We fail to educate ourselves and we are way too accepting. We make our circumstances work and we often times do not strive for more. When one of us DOES do well, we don't support it. Or the person in the position of power doesn't acknowledge us. It's a chained cycle... we have to break it! 

We are not taught the same... Read More

April 19 at 9:52pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

You have to know what your talking about in every syllable. Not something that was heard of TV or in your local block symposium. To actually have liberty to speak, You first must have, Knowledge, Wisdom, & Understanding! You have to basically be a chameleon with impeccable timing.

April 19 at 10:00pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

what's good for the Goose is definitely not good for the Gander! and my last comment was for Daryl

April 19 at 10:02pm · Delete

Julian A. Jackson

First Dee Dee, 
I am definitely going to have to check this movie out as soon as I finish exams. To see someone so affected by the film definitely makes it worth the trip. I have viewed some of your vlogs and have thoroughly enjoyed them. You have always been a bit of a rebel I remember you organizing the class against our 6th grade english teacher... Read More

April 19 at 10:16pm · Delete

Julian A. Jackson

operate in our respective sphere of the black community. I think there is also this psychology of victimization and fear. Which I see reflected in several of the comments in this thread. The reality is nothing worth having is to going be given passively. We used to be a strong, proud people now we have people who don't want to rock the boat because... Read More

April 19 at 10:24pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

J Adam, your talking something that has been happening since slavery. I don't know where your conversation fits in at. This is what I am saying...People start an unearthly choir not really knowing an iota of whats real and whats now! That is why I said Blacks will always talk about other Blacks. Its me, me , me, Do what I can to maintain #1 status and do what ever to 2, 3, & 4.

April 19 at 10:28pm · Delete

Julian A. Jackson

I know it can be done. I am not attempting to minimize systematic racism but what I am saying is that we can no longer succumb to self imposed roadblocks and just stop advancing. We have to draw on our creativity and innovation to come up with solutions to the problems we are facing today. We have to shed light on the injustices that are occurring... Read More

April 19 at 10:30pm · Delete

Julian A. Jackson

Andrew- 
It seems you would preclude having a conversation at all. Since its an "impentrable" force I guess we should just give up and do nothing to improve our condition. No offense but I feel that type of attitude is part of the problem.

April 19 at 10:36pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

You need too wake up out of your loopy-loo dreamy state. "Dreamy" which connotes sort of someone who is a little light.
Someone who is just sort of day-dreaming like Walter Mitty, as opposed to someone who does things

April 19 at 10:39pm · Delete

Julian A. Jackson

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. 
Carter G. Woodson

April 19 at 10:45pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

J Adam, My American friend. My thoughts about the situation are so small and trivial, that to actually take time to consider it part of the problem compared to all the real issues, is so profound that it raises questions of self-doubt about all what you have said this morning.

April 19 at 10:54pm · Delete

SuperNova Sana

I read all views and understand each point, I was at the King Center in ATL a week ago and I watched many of the documentaries and was brought to tears when I was reminded of how our people of the past were martyrs for change and equality. They were wholeheartedly willing to DIE for the cause and I don...Read More

April 19 at 10:55pm · Delete

Julian A. Jackson

Mr. Morgan, 
I say this respectfully. Cancer only needs one cell to propagate throughout the body.

April 19 at 11:04pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

All I know is that back then, everybody (well a least) The masses united. Now people talk this and that. But when its time to face the firing line, its a different story. obviously lots of young (18-25) people are talk to the very end. and good talk too. But when the losing war starts all that will be left is dead bodies. I think lot of us know ... Read More

April 19 at 11:13pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

One thing I can say is that we are fighting a losing battle, the only thing we can do to combat racism and discrimination here in this country is die. but nobody want to.
Malcolm X once said that the one problem that America has is the fact that we are here and they do not want us here, and it is true, we are the most hated race on earth and we ... Read More

April 19 at 11:17pm · Delete

Drew Morgan

Have a good night/
avoir une bonne nuit

April 19 at 11:21pm · Delete

Julian A. Jackson

Mr. Morgan-
I agree and thats why after the civil rights movement we as a people have been at a standstill. Because people have just accepted and moved on. Similar to the germans during WWII or the internment of Japanese Americans ...just accept and move on or the crisis in Darfur, Rwanda, Somaila...just accept and move on. Im not claiming to as ... Read More

April 19 at 11:26pm · Delete

Julian A. Jackson

Merci, toi aussi.

April 19 at 11:28pm · Delete

Rarin Ole Sein

@Dwayne - You do realized that you are perpetuating that same hate by saying that 'every immigrant that comes into this country hates us'? 
There is no doubt the American system of justice can be skewed but the more important question is - what are we as Americans (not just blacks) doing to help correct it?

April 20 at 6:09am · Delete

Charles E. Harris Sr.

Too much into scraching. You are brave, you just need what I talked to you about. You need a barack in your life. You need to Listen to Tom Joyner in the morning and Michael basden in the evening. THEY Keep you up with whats happening in Black America. Please listen to them and watch MSNBC News. Do not be a Flower in the garden, Be the Gardner Over the Garden..... LOL

April 20 at 9:55pm · Delete

Dwayne Royster

@Rarin - I think you misunderstood what I meant, what I meant is that all immigrants that come here are taught that black americans are bad, I live in NYC, I do not live in LA, so I am only speaking on what I see to be true.
I think the correct history needs to be taught so that people can see that black americians built this country for free but ... Read More

April 20 at 11:48pm · Delete