Nomadic Soul

“I knew he was into heavy metal music and weird satanic stuff but I didn’t know it was that bad,” added his mother in tears.

I’m a nigga and I still wanna be that bitch

Be. That. Bitch.

Blacks are not likely to number themselves among the forty-six million Americans today who can trace the origins of their family wealth to the Homestead Act of 1863, because almost all of that land was allocated to whites through restrictions expressly designed to deny access to blacks.’ They cannot include themselves among the major beneficiaries of the trillions of dollars of wealth accumulated through the appreciation of housing assets secured by federally insured loans between 1932 and 1962 because 98 percent of FHA loans made during that era went to whites via the openly racist categories utilized in the agency’s official manuals for appraisers.’ Most blacks know that past discrimination continues to influence contemporary struggles to accumulate assets because wealth is inherited and passed down across generations.

It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.