I know I can't be alone in that I don't care! Why are we so pressed over this crap....there are real issues in our society that need to be addressed.
Someone should make a hash tag about the homeless people in Baltimore, or the budget crisis that still exists, or the education system and its flaws, or the incessant incarceration of African American males, how about the kidnapping and selling of children domestically and internationally, how about underpaid laborers and overpaid CEO's, how about the collapse of the middle class, about classism, racism, sexism, and all of the many other isms that are prevalent.....including separatism, how about religious intolerance...how about the fact that still over half of the country is discriminating against half of the population....I just can't. I can't comprehend how this is the hottest trending topic, and not only that it is trending but that it has continued to be the most talked about news in every possible media facet since Sunday!
This is a call, an all-call if you will. For us...people....to use Social Media as a catalyst for social change, to use Social Capital and grow as a nation, this is an opportunity for all of us to broaden our scopes and stop twiddling our thumbs. the elevator fiasco my friends, is not news! The burning and killing of over 300 people in Gamboru Ngala is news! And yet I see nothing about that on my social media news feed.
These are issues that people claim to care about, ask anyone how they feel about the homeless and they are most certain to express that something should be done. Sometimes out of frustration and a desire not to see homeless people and sometimes out of compassion and soft spot for human suffering; either way something should be done! And yet the highlight of the week is that 2 very well-off individuals who happen to stay in the public eye were recorded at a moment in which their behavior was not socially acceptable.
Now don't get me wrong, assault is most certainly not okay, and I am not by any means, condoning the behavior exhibited...I am simply stating a fact, I work day in and day out with women who have come out of homes where they have been trapped barefoot and incessantly impregnated against their wills only to be beat down day after day to such an extent that their only escape is to come to a Shelter! JayZ is returning to his undoubtedly decked out pad with his mega star wife! He might increase his body guards and should he chose to press charges he may, but the situation is not even half as awe-worthy as are the stories of the many men and women who find themselves crippled at the hand of violence!!
If we want to highlight the violence in America I do not believe that Solange and JayZ make a very good "poster child" for the cause!
instead of talking about the important issues, and claiming that they matter to us, and publicizing the ratchet and the ridiculous propaganda that media feeds us...why not publicize the issues that we really care about.....
And as I come into a sense of consciousness I realize that perhaps we are publicizing the issues that we care most about in which case I fear we may be doomed!
I was thinking about my future career as a Social Worker, I am excited to make change in lives of those that have been oppressed and disserved by the systems of society, and yet I find that I have a fire for seeing a larger social change. I see society at war, at war with ourselves over what is pleasing and easy to digest versus the reality of our status. I am a Social Warrior!
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