How Far Have We Really Come???

So often we, as black people, sit back and blame the white man for everything. So many times I hear black people say that they can’t do something because they white man want let them. Everything these days is always about the white man this and the white man that and the white man did this and the white man did that. I understand where my race comes from and where we are headed. But sometimes I sit back and wonder how far have we really come? We are still sitting back and arguing about black and white. We are in the 21^st century and we are still dealing with race and racism. I was always taught, at an early age, to respect everyone no matter what race they are. To me so many people have lost sight of what our ancestors went through. Our ancestors fought for the right to vote, but yet there are so many black people that want even go out and vote saying that their vote don’t matter. Our ancestors fought for us to be able to sit anywhere on a bus, but yet we always run to the back. Our ancestors fought so that we might be able to get an education and be able to sit in the same room with whites, but yet many of us drop out of school and don’t even attempt to get a GED. It sometimes pisses me off when I think about how our generation just takes everything for granted. We sit up and make excuses after excuses about why we can’t come up in the world. We talk about what they white man doing, but we can’t even embrace our own race and uplift one another. I must admit that there are some crooked white people in this world, but you would never know it and you would never hear another white person say it. White people lift each other up. They may hate each other behind closed doors, but they would rather stick together than to allow another black person to get ahead of them. But black people, we down each other around white people. We criticize one another for every little thing. We can’t stand to see another black come up in the community. Until the black community comes together and lift one another up than we, as black people, will always be at the bottom. Then we get mad when we see a black man with a white woman. I mean come on people what does it really matter. If a black man wants a white woman than that is his business. I mean everyone has a preference of what they want. We need to get off this black and white and just live our lives. It seems to me that we are allowing ourselves to go back to what our ancestors had to go through. History is just repeating itself because they same thing that our ancestors fought for and against we are still fighting it now. We, as black people, can do anything we set our minds to. We have to get out of our own way. That’s that problem right there, we are standing on our own way. Until we get outside of self and this mindset that we can’t do something because they white man want let us, than we will never get anywhere. Once you get something in your head nobody can take that away from you. Black people can go as far as they want to go to this world, once they get out their own way. I love my black people and my generation, but I feel like we are missing the bigger picture. We are letting our views block our vision.