MASTERPIECES ART STUDIO

Oct. 2008

STOP CALLING YOURSELVES "BLACK" AND "N..." !!!!

It has GOT to stop. NO one will make it stop until YOU stop yourself and all those that are around you. I hate it because it seems as if you do not understand that it is a bad term that white people branded upon you to make you THINK you are not equal.

Trying to say that it is "Yours" BY saying it, trying to say that if YOU say it then it is ok...guess what that is just the same thing! It is STILL a bad term that puts you down. By YOU saying it, you put YOURSELF down. By thinking it, by feeling that it is a descriptive term for YOU then you are embracing the way white people USED to think of you.

Most of us have moved on and respect qualities of every person. Not all, but most. If you keep the same language then what does that say about you? It SEEMS like you enjoy that kind of bad brand.

Take a lesson from the Jewish. They are very powerful and rich, or at least so many are that it seems the entire culture is rich and powerful. What they do when ANYONE says ANYTHING bad about them or their culture is CRASH down upon that individual with a ton of pressure. Pressure politically, financially, and socially. They do not accept it and we all know it. Examples have been made out of people that have said ill of the Jewish.

Why don't you do the same? Why not start with your own self idenity? Are you black? Or are you a COLOR? As an artist I know that most are different shades of brown. Tan, light tan, Umber, Burnt Umber, Sienna, Raw Sienna, Clay ,etc. Name the true color and the true idenity will come out. Keep the old terms in your vocabulary, teach it to your children and you will never be as powerful as we all need you to be.

Just imagine if anyone, anywhere said or did anything to your culture AND paid for their actions...how different would the world be for us all? Just imagine if you worked together to get more for yourselves and culture like the Jewish? How rich would we all be then?

Think about it.