Thursday, August 5, 2010

Letter from a Brother to another...

Hey Bro! Check it out… people are pissseddddd…

Man, people are out for your ass!! You better run somewhere…

Man, it aint what you did or didn’t do.

It’s the approach you said you were gonna have. You were up there saying, we gonna change things, and we thought, well hell, he is a brother, he knows what’s up, he’ll take care of business.

You is a brother, from a single momma, had to work your way up, go to school and now you was coming to the White House, Dang bro, we thought you was the black superman…

But so far nothing… same bullshit!

What is up with all the change line you was giving us???

Take this shit with AZ, how you gonna let them do that to the beans??

Bro, it’s the same shit they did to us… PROFILING, ya know?? Them Ricans aint illegals, but they still look like the Mexicans, how you gonna tell them apart???What are you going to do about the illegals from Zimbabwe, they look just like us? What if there is illegals from France??? They white!! Naahh bro, this is creating a world of trouble…

Check it out, ima school you in what you need to do???

Now, listen up son, my momma used to say you cant be knocking other peoples houses and telling them what to do if your own house is a mess, that aint gonna work….

What are we doing investing money all over the world in military bases, troops and who knows what else you got going over there??? Bring it back bro… Now, once you got everything here with you, army, navy and who knows what other thugs you got watching your back.

What do you do when you don’t want flies in your house??? CLOSE THE DOOR…

CLOSE THE BORDER!!!! Party is over; whoever is here, is here to stay…. Let the ones that don’t want to stay go, have them hit the road, they don’ wanna be here, we don’t need them here!!!

Talk to these people bro. Some of them want to come and be here for good and work and be Americans like us…. Why can’t we let them? Bro, King said it, not Martin Luther King Jr bro, Rodney… why can’t we all get along???

There be some of them too that want to start shit and want to work and cross over every other day, make money here and take it somewhere else to spend. Nahhh, bro, them people aint Americans and aint never gonna be.

If you work here, that money needs to be spent here… none of that sending out to buy shit in other countries. Like in El Salvador, my friend Felipe says he gets 10 pairs of nikes for like ten dollars, but I told that crazy fool, it aint about what you getting bro, its about what you putting back… these beans don’t get it bro, but they will.

Women be drawing food stamps and getting their kids free education throughout the year and then they send them back to Nicaragua so their auntie can take of their kids for free, what’s up with that???? You need to invest on the daycare here, this is your country now…. Don’t sell out…

Like if Diddy gets his shirts made here and Jay-Z gets them done in China, need I tell you whose shirts you need to be buying…

Here it is bro… them beans don’t think this is home, they be here working their asses off, cause they are hard workers, you have to give them that but at the end, they always want to go home. We aint never gonna make it work with them, unless this becomes home. They be here fifty years and they still be crying about home, they need to own up to that and make up their minds, ya know? Not that I blame them, have you seen some of the veterans in the streets? It is disgraceful

Seriously now, we need to take care of us first.

Didn’t you learn from 9/11??? Them people blew up the towers and suddenly Jose, Wong, Fred and Jerome was helping each other, representing and whatnot. So here is the deal, everyone that is here, and wants to be here, they get their shiny, new americanship certificate!

So what are you gonna do? Make everyone legal. Fine everyone that has been illegal, that plus whatever they have to pay for their papers ought to make up for the budget deficit, plus I bet you never thought about the extra money you are gonna make when all of them pay taxes.

You gonna have to hire tons of people to process them as legal. They gonna have to be registered, someone is gonna have to work with them while in that process, then you are gonna need testers, and then you gonna need to have someone take the pictures and give’em their brand new certificate of americanship.

You gonna have to have people around to help them. You need civic centers bro…

You need centers in the community where people can go to find out about jobs, education, raising their kids, health and all of the things that they need to know about to become American citizens. Your momma taught you about being an American, they don’t have a momma to teach them, they are being taught by the other people who came here before them but none of them have the right information. They need help; our help…

When kids go to college, they get a mentor, someone who walks you around til you get familiar with the campus and tells you about the rules and how you gonna get from here to here and who to talk to if you need something, where you can get the good shit, ahem…. now why would we think that coming to a new country would be any different… it is the same and some of these people are lost and get bad advice.

Then you gonna have to open the schools at night and hire more teachers. You need to teach these people to speak English, you need to make it mandatory and make them pay for their classes, as part of their americanship program. Think of the new revenue that would generate. More teachers, more jobs, more consumption…. I can see them dollar signs dancing in front of my eyes… But, wait, you have to make sure these people are FLUENT. My friend Maria took her citizenship test and do you know what they asked her? What color was Washington’s white horse??? What kind of civics and American history test is that? That’s bullshit; it’s harder to get through the airport bro…

That ought to quit the extra expenses in translating documents and printing fifteen hundred different versions of one form.

Also, you are gonna have to get rid of the current welfare failure. Man, we can’t give prenatal care and food stamps to everyone who gets pregnant. That’s like rewarding your kid for doing something they are not supposed to do. I know you don’t want to leave the kids unprotected and it aint the kids fault the momma got pregnant, but if you pay for it, they aint gonna care, they gonna keep having babies, white babies, brown babies, black babies, ALL kinds of baby. We in the middle of a recession and people don’t even know whats gonna happen and they still having all kinds of babies… Crazy!!! Taxes should be commensurate to the expense that the government has for you and your family. I am just saying… you gonna have twenty kids… that’s cool, but you gonna pay more taxes… not the other way around.

The first thing we are gonna have to teach everyone, not only the new people new to the americanship thing is accountability.

You lost your job and you need a hand, that’s cool bro, shit like that happens all the time, we gonna give you and your family a hand for about six months til you get back on your feet. After that, you need to scoot… If you have not found a job by then, then you need to seriously consider going back to school or doing something else. You wouldn’t have your momma support you for your whole life, why should the government?

Insurance is too expensive for you, that’s cool, the government can offer you insurance alternatives, but I tell you what, they need to pay something for it and make it available to everyone. What the hell makes you think that the people that work want to spend all kinds of money on insurance, hell sometimes they gotta do without and people that don’t work, have insurance, which makes no sense bro, no sense…

Here is another idea I had, you know how you go to NY City and that shit stinks and it’s dirty. They gotta have at least half of the damn population in that damn city on welfare and housing. Tell their asses to hit the streets and clean it up bro, someone needs to be getting their hands dirty. They can’t find jobs; we find something for them to do. We need people to provide daycare for mommas to go to work and school, straight! You getting welfare, you gonna work in government provided daycare, no more sitting in your house watching Jerry, we gonna help you help yourself!!!

Didn’t your momma every teach you? Yo, don’t give someone a fish; teach their asses how to fish…
No handouts bro, no handouts, and then you got them people thinking, you owe me, the government owes me… bullshit, no one owes you nothing…

What about them mommas saying they kids sick so they get a check? Bro, why a kid with ADD need a disability check? Check it out, if you told me you was gonna give her like ten hours at a local day care so she can get that little bugger out of her hair for a while cause if not she is gonna go crazy herself, I understand that, but why a check??? The schools be teaching them and shit. That momma don’t need anything extra…

Ohhhhhhhh!!! I almost forgot bro, I almost forgot…. This kid I know hooked me up with a Dell, ya know a laptop so I can be connected and check out what you up to on CNN. It started acting all goofy and I called him and he said he wasn’t no tech to call technical support, have you ever tried to call them tech support people???

I was talking to Yuba, she had an accent, but that’s cool you know? A lot of people do, but I was telling her that it was crazy hot here in the heart of it all and then I asked her if it was hot where she was at, you know what she told me, she couldn’t tell me where she was at…. I looked at that phone like Yuba was crazy, what you mean you can’t tell me??? Where are you at??? Finally she told me she was out of the country.

Are you for real?? You know how many people can work those jobs? Why you letting them send them jobs out of the country?? Man, even them big fat people on the Wal-Mart carts can run their mouths and work customer service, we don’t need to send our jobs out. Same for them companies that go to Mexico and shit to build stuff cheaper, you know that never made no sense to me either.

If the Mexicans are coming here to make money and the factories are working over there, you’d think something would’ve noticed something aint right….

Anyways back to these Benedict Arnolds, tax them! Tax the companies that outsource jobs and the ones that bring in foreign made products to sell here. Tax them outrageously. There are 307,006,550 people in this country. We have enough of a project trying to become self sufficient. If the company wants to stop doing business here, good riddance!!!! We need companies who believe in the American spirit and not in the capitalist-get-your-own-now-and-fuck-everyone-else-spirit but the lets-work-together-to-create-a- nation-that-allows-people-to-be-self-sufficient-independent-self-fulfilled-and-investing-fully-into-each- other-and-our-children’s-future spirit.

The worst part of it all, the craziest part of all of this bro, is that if we all looked to investing our money, our time, our interest in here, in America, the country would flourish….

I know why you stuck, why you can’t do anything. There are those who are so far up in the system, that are profiting so much from the way things are that they cant allow for it to be changed. Truth of the matter is … we can’t change it all, unless we ourselves change. We are responsible for allowing those people to take advantage of us. We are responsible for letting things so out of control.

People stopped caring about who was in office and what they was doing and they became numb.

Now everyone know who Ochocinco is gonna choose for his baby momma but don’t nobody know about the laws and how they be changing and the fact that we are so far in deficit that it’s not even funny.

When the gas prices went crazy, people suddenly woke up and the gas was like a dollar higher. It wasn’t over night, people. Wake up! They be raising prices of everything, everyday, passing laws you don’t even know about cause you too busy on facebook and then you gonna get mad, child please!!

Bro, there is so many things that can be done to change this. You just gotta get your strap on and make the hard decisions. The justice system sucks, its not rehabilitative, its crippling. Welfare is creating a generation of self entitled boobies. The education system is being destroyed, have you noticed that world wide we rank like 200th in education. Damn bro, I know we got some smart kids. Let’s start investing the money where its worth investing at.

Instead of paying Lebron the millions and millions of dollars he gets, I know this one teacher in my school that we drove insane, I swear she used to eat antacids every two minutes, she deserves millions of dollars because she stood with a bunch of lost hope kids and believed in them, that’s a lot harder than shooting hoops. How about them firefighters that jump into your house to save your ass in a fire, they go in there and get you out and they go back to get Fluffly??? The policeman who sticks his neck out there in the ugly parts of town, who have to run into the shootouts. How about you holla at your stay-at-home moms, who make it work on one income so they can be home not only for their kids, for the kids she helps when she volunteers and for the kids she watches at home to make a little extra money. How about the single parents?? They deserve millions and millions. For working and going to school and raising their kids and still wanting to better themselves to make it better.

How that crazy Lebron gets money like that??? I don’t know, there is something stupid about a society that is willing to pay a basketball player money like crazy and give minimum wage to a daycare worker.

I don’t know bro, I am just saying…

This aint about race either. The AZ law is wrong not because they illegal, but because the way to enforce it is to physically profile. Hell yea, you need to stop illegal immigration, but don’t make stupid suggestions, Hard problems require that you play hardball. People take advantage of welfare, all people, white, black and Hispanics. People go to jail and get branded for life, white, black and Hispanics.

Stop making it an issue about race and integration. It can’t be integrated. It will never be. Integration means that we will blend into some freakish creature, and we cant, our strength is our diversity. So stop, no one is going to have pot roast, collard greens and rice and beans for dinner. It’s not happening. Celebrate our diversity. Celebrate our differences and learn to use those differences as resources for our growth and improvement.

Maybe one day, not that far off, we can all sit together for a brand new type of Thanksgiving dinner. Can you picture it? Some rice and beans, get some macaroni and cheese and some fried chicken.

Now, when we can all sit down and enjoy that table just for the sake of the food, then we will have made progress, otherwise, this is just a game and the Arizona law is just the first step in our long course to self destruction.

Now do what you came to do! Lead us bro, lead the change, lead the revolution!!!

Word to your mother! Peace! I am out!