Son Forgets His Promise To Always Take Care Of His Dad | Dhar Mann

I went through this with my pops before he left this world on 4/23/2021. It wasn't easy, but I have no regrets because I was there for him until the end. I bet that guilt hit different for that son, knowing the only memory of his father is him getting upset at him.

Let It Ride

 I'm learning this daily because sometimes no resolution will come from addressing the situation, so I don't care enough to address it. It's about picking your battles: Knowing which battles you can win, and which ones aren't worth fighting.

Today's Thought: You Reap What You Sow

 

Why should I or any upstanding citizen feel sorrow over evildoers' demise? These people spent their lives causing pain to others, and they got what was coming to them. A FB friend just told me a story about a sex offender getting his head split in half for molesting a 6-year old girl. That story confirms what I know: Inmates have zero tolerance towards child sex offenses. Make it so bad, inmates know what you're in for prior to your arrival. When you do evil, evil will always follow you.

Today's Thought: God

 

Coming Back Into Your Life/Uncle Tom

By then, it would be too late because once someone leaves my life, they're x'ed out for good; never allowed back in.

Black people, we MUST stop using Uncle Tom as an insult. Uncle Tom was a man who refused to beat black women.

Uncle Tom was a man who refused to tell on other slaves.

Uncle tom was a man who would put cotton in other slaves’ bags at night, so that they wouldn’t get beat!

Uncle Tom was a man who helped 100 slaves get free long before the underground railroad.

Uncle Tom was a man, that once free, established the 1st Laborers school for other fugitive slaves!

His name? Josiah Henson! Josiah Henson was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer’s school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden, in Kent County, Upper Canada, of British Canada.

So stop calling these sell-outs Uncle tom! That’s a compliment! Its Sambo that was the sell-out, who would do anything for his slave masters’ approval!

Tell me, what's so bad about being an Uncle Tom? I'll wait.

 

Art Imitates Life

 

Shout out to this wonderful painting by the artist. Whoever this artist is, he nailed it. The artist painted himself how he grew up with each TV black dad. You have a variety of TV fathers from all education/socioeconomic backgrounds: Ghetto/Inner City, middle/working class, professional/upper class, etc. I like this painting.

Throwback Thursday: When They See Us

 I'd like to share a Throwback Thursday post I made on 7/17/2019 about When They See Us produced by Ava Duvernay. Even though this is a throwback post, it's still relevant today because blacks are STILL fighting for basic equality.