Quality Is Life

So many experts wag their fingers at us to tell us what we should be doing better. They do not realize that quality is life. What difference does it make how much weight I lose if we have to worry about keeping roofs over our heads. What difference does it make if we think positively if we and our children can be gunned down in the street by friend and foe. It matters how well we can live in a society. Sometimes life in a horrible society is worse than death. Those who are supposed to know better than us can tell  us how to behave all they want, but we will not do better until the foundations of our society are open for us to live in a civilized way.

Timbro: West To East

Timbro: A Woman About A Man

Timbro: About Africa

I Refuse To Live By Law

Laws are not strong enough to sustain a life. The law says that if a person does not have the right documents they can be mistreated. The laws are color coded and the darker you are the less value you hold. The law says that the more money you have the more laws you can violate without punishment. The law says that if you are innocent if you can cause enough fear so that the person you harm will not accuse you. The law says that the court room determines what the law is at any given moment. The law says that inanimate objects like courtrooms have personhood. Laws are written and maintained by people who set themselves apart from everyone else in a society as its rulers. Laws are for beings that are not developed enough to live by principles. These are some of the reasons why I refuse to live by laws.

Darker Than A Paper Bag (A Poem)

Darker Than a Paper Bag

When a baby is born

Darker than a paper bag

They are special

Dark babies will live

And probably die

With no control

No control

Of a hospital

No control

Of a school

No control

Of a work place

No control

Of a government

Federal, state, or local

No control

Of social clubs

Public or secret

Darker than a paper bag

You get

Debt, deficit

Prison, parole, probation

But no control

What Was Gabourey Sidibe Thinking

I wonder what was on Gabourey Sidibe’s mind when she took the role on the show The Big C. She played the mammy character and did a good job at it. Sidibe added sassiness to the heavy dark woman who pushes the dominant family to be better while being treated like less. She also mocked the tradition of a whole people for a season on the show. I will acknowledge that the Africa of high culture is behind us, but we should still show some respect to the first and longest running civilization. Sidibe is young so she may not have known better. Maybe she will think better of her gift as the years go on.