Youthful Life: X

The 20s are all about standing up for what you believe and putting those thoughts to action. I solemnly swear that post is going to shake your very core. I will apologize in advance for the unproductive "us" and "them" language used, but frankly this quote explains it, "Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are" Benjamin Franklin. I will also put the disclaimer that this post is going to be harsh, there will be no sugar coating and I'm taking no prisoners. If this post makes you mad, IT SHOULD . It should make you furious, it should make you sad, it should make you FINALLY feel something. Last but not least, I will point out that just around this time last year I wrote a very similar post about the George Zimmerman case - Black Hoodie . Whether you're ready or not, here comes racial law. *Vine of the chaos and unrest - Tear Gas in Ferguson   Let me start by acknowledging that I'm literally s...

The 20s are all about making your way through a verbal Armageddon. It seems lately that everyone has something to say about apparently everyone else and it's more often than not, something less than benign. It's like all hell has broken loose and the amount of revelation, perception-altering, mind-blowing secret sharing has reached it's near capacitance. The personal apocalypse is coming and people are pulling out all the stops. The revelations are too real and the shadiness is nearing eclipse status. It's fifty shades is cray out here.  Rumors , can't live with them and can't live without them. People constantly have something to say about other people and at a certain point it becomes wholly unnecessary. If you don't have something nice to say about someone then for get staying quiet, make your damn point then simmer the hell down. People may do or say something some mad nasty crazy ish and if course that leave you with a bad after taste in your mout...

The 20s is all about standing up for what you believe. It's times like that test us all, push us to the brink, and force us to wake up from our obliviousness. If you want your cause to matter, you have to be the one to make sure it does. Count on no one else to do the job you are more than capable of doing. We all have a voice, use it. Speak to be heard, and listen to understand. I was before, am now, and always will be wearing my black hoodie. * Honestly , when I heard the verdict of the George Zimmerman case I was absolutely astonished. I stood there literally speechless, I couldn't form words, my stomach plummeted and my heart raced. My dad had told me yesterday that he suspected that the verdict would result in an acquittal but I felt there was no way. I hopped on facebook and twitter to sound off and express myself like many other people. I could not type fast enough. I was sweating, tears formed on the corners of my eyes and fell freely from face. I was eating and su...

The 20s are all about pulling out all the stops and taking it there. They're about standing up, speaking out, and making sure your voice is heard. When you've researched, studied, and prepared properly to engage in real conversation, that's when you're ready to bring it. Then you combine your personal experiences, and what you've witnessed or endured and you present your undeniable, irrefutable, unstoppable truths for the world to see. But wouldn't we all be better off color blind? Oh hell to the no, black and white is were started beforehand, we all know equality is a gray areas (all 50 shades of it - Armie Hammer for Christian Grey; I had to get my pop culture reference in here). *Here marks the third and final leg of my journey to spilling the beans, letting the cat out of the bag, and getting so real it's like HD (excuse the terrible pun). Get ready for me to kick some more metaphorical ass, take names, and mark them on the figurative wall of shame....