Enough, Dawg.

I am from a generation of black folks infuriated by toxic internet politics. Kanye West and Kyrie Irving are the final straw after years of bullshit.

I come from a place people call Up South. My spiritual and actual roots are from black people who came up from the south to serve in WWII. My grandfather did the books for the 6th at Ft Lewis to make sure they had enough food and clothing. Stirred by black media, my Uncle Moe went with my grandmother’s second husband to the eastern theater and witnessed him losing his life in France. My grandmother and aunts served in the Laundry Room in Ft Lewis. Later, they would serve in civil service and union politics with one intent and purpose, to make black people’s lives a little better than they were yesterday.

These people, along with my mother, gave me every good thing about my core. In their deeds works and love, they gave me my history, ethic, and strategic matter of functioning. They did all this because for the hope that future generations and myself wouldn’t have to go through what they went through in the Jim Crow south. They gave me my history, ethic, and strategic matter of functioning because they wanted me to deal with an agonizing world the best way I know how.

I’m sure my grandparents, aunts uncles who raised me would be heartbreaking and horrified by what this country has become. They would have also been heartbroken and horrified by how many internet black folks don’t want freedom as much as they want the chain key and big house( and want to repopularize civilization’s most…