By Charles O’Neal
Texas Metro News
https://texasmetronews.com
You’ve had a few weeks to digest the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act by the not-so-Supreme Court. You’ve struggled with finding the appropriate response – for you – ‘cause, well, the appropriate response is to do something you’ve never done…
The appropriate response is to make “Never Again!” ours… to loudly declare “… you cain’t do this shit to me!”
But, in saying this, you know they’ll bring out the fire hoses and dogs – or worse – so you sit, and sit some more until…
Until NOTHING! You take the shit you swore you wouldn’t and go about your day, hoping to make it to Friday.
In the meantime all the hoped for Fridays of future generations hang in the balance ’cause you sat until the right time to really do something about it.
This is not an indictment, merely an observation. It is graphically clear that the intent of the Court’s action is to mash you back into the corner they’ve prepared for you, to stifle you, muffle you… suffocate you if necessary.
It’s working. Even this “keyboard warrior” screed fails to move you, wake you, rouse you to something you’ve never done.
Nearly SIXTY MILLION people muted – paralyzed – by words from “justices” whose stock in trade is INJUSTICE. Yet, we sit. We pontificate. We proselytize. Shout, murmur, extol, proclaim, then… SIT!!!
The ONLY time this country has responded to our sitting was when we sat at counters they declared off limits, so sitting now won’t get done what we need done.
If ever there was a time to prove Black America truly believes “Faith without works is DEAD” it is NOW!
All the proclamations that “We Are Not Our Ancestors,” all the PhDs Big Mama ‘nem couldn’t even imagine, all the hard-to-pronounce foreign cars, all the backyard pools in gated communities ALL mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to those who watch you sit… and wait…
Your eyes are NOT lying… it is YOU – lying to yourself – that you’re just gonna sit here ‘til the right idea, the right moment…
Just sit….
Charles O’Neal is the President of the Texas Association of African American Chambers of Commerce (TAAACC) and a well-respected former journalist.
