When Did Middle Eastern Become White?

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Filling out an application for a college and am required to report my ethnicity. But when did MIDDLE EASTERN become white? LOL! I know that America is getting browner but this is laughable.

These race/ethnic reports have done nothing but DIVIDE Black to make it look smaller. 7/8ths of the worlds population has Melanin in its skin. Melanin is Greek for “Black” so by dividing black into five categories, it can be conquered.
Black is actually the MAJORITY and not a MINORITY.

I am American Indian. And Black people were already over here. That’s why Columbus thought he was in India. The Hawaiian indians were “Black,” the Olmecs who proceeded the Mayans were “Black,” and the first dynasty of China was “Black,” and many Indians are darker than me in Asia. And many Middle Easterners are brown or Black. I have never seen any of them that are “White.” But it’s interesting that they didn’t define “White” as European or White from the United States of America. All that they want to do is divide and classify people with melanin because if the TRUTH WAS TOLD they should only ask you to check one of two things. Bascially, are you black or white? Or are you mixed?
“Do You Have Melanin (Black) In Your Skin?” Or do you lack Melanin (Black)?

Now if that was the REAL question, then how many people in these five categories would consider themselves BLACK?

American Indian or Alaska Native (including all Original Peoples of the Americas)
Asian (including Indian subcontinent and Philippines)
Black or African American (including Africa and Caribbean)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Original Peoples)
White (including Middle Eastern)

I suppose that by doing this, whites can assert the claim that Jesus was White.

Wow, a continual re-write of history is taking place right before our eyes. Saddam was not anti-American because he understood the struggles of the Black man and woman in America. He was anti-White Supremacy. Osama Bin Laden felt the same way. So by participating in the murder of both Saddam and Osama, and making the Middle East weaker by murdering its men and innocent people, white supremacy can take over that area. If white supremacy wants oil and wants to control land, they will add you to their folds.

My only concern is that Middle Easterners should take heed and remember what happened to the American Indian. Some were told they were different than the “Black” Indians who were called savages. They helped the white man defeat the Black “Indians.” Once the white man was finished using the “light skinned” Indians, then they broke every treaty and every promise and herded them off on the trail of tears.

Watch your back and don’t fall for the okie doke.

History will repeat itself.

Is Jazz and Blues Music Really Black?

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It’s okay to say that jazz and blues music originated from the Black experience in America. I am getting tired of people, both black and white, who act like that is not important. I know there is a lot of pain behind these discussions. But hey, there’s a lot of pain in blues and some jazz from the experiences. There have been too many times that history has been rewritten to not include the contributions of Black people which is why some people think that we contribute very little. So as a Sista, I will always acknowledge that Blues is BLACK and Jazz is BLACk. And it’s okay and HEALTHY to honor and pay homage to its roots. If I were any other color besides Black, I would still acknowledge this as I do with so many things.
By honoring this, it doesn’t mean that people are excluded from playing the old standards. It also doesn’t mean that the new music of today cannot include EACH individual artist’s own experience with the music and in today’s times. So if you live in a suburb and live on honeysuckle drive, you can still create jazz or blues music that includes your experience.
BLUES and JAZZ needs to be the music of the people; not the politicians but of the people who are in the trenches trying to make sense of this life, stretching dollars, dealing with real life issues and problems and struggles as to the imperfect world that we live in. That’s why the heritage is significant. But music has become an INSTITUTION and has lost its street cred.
Even Elvis had to get in the streets and cross the rail road tracks to learn the music.
I see it and maybe I am the only one who sees this. Someone will get offended because it seems to be unreasonably offensive to discuss the experience of music. But I guess that one day, my child will tell my story and my struggles through her music.
There’s arabian music, Greek literature, Native American tribal clothing, Swedish meatballs, Roman gods, Italian wine, Polish sausage, Mexican food, Cinco de Mayo, Chinese food, Japanese art, etc. We acknowledge culture, race, and history in most things but it seems to be taboo to admit that BLUES AND JAZZ is music based from the struggles and joys and prayers of the Black people in America.

Crossing StateLine

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I moved to Johnson County from the Missouri side of Kansas City during the Spring semester of my daughter’s 5th grade year in 2008.  I was so frustrated with the schools and teachers at Red Bridge Elementary in Missouri because I could not for the life of me understand why they had gone all of these years and never taught the students how to write in cursive.

I received a remark from the Principal that because everything is becoming more technical and we are using keyboards more frequently, there is no need to learn cursive.

As someone who is degree’d in Computer Information Management, I could not buy that bunch of bullcrap.  And I was sick and tired of sending my daughter to school with these female teachers who come from the suburbs and “sacrifice” to drive to the Center School District to teach in Jackson County.

I also feel strongly that because the suburban educators could neither empathize nor understand nor value the Black experience, they would do everything they could to undermine it and discipline it out of the Black children.  And as a woman who values her experience which is Black, rich, and strong, then that did not settle with me at all.

Added to that issue, I lived at Park South Apartments on State Line Road and lived above the maintenance man named Dave.  His wife lived there, too.  He was an alcoholic and a chronic smoker.  And by looking at him, you could tell that he had lived a tough life.  There was a lady who lived in the complex, and for all intents and purposes, she was alright looking.  But she had two skinny grehound-looking dogs and would walk their ugly asses up and down past my apartment building.  Those damn dogs barked all the time and if you were walking out to your car, they would bark like you were trying to carjack.  I hated those dogs and couldn’t understand why she wouldn’t shut those dogs the hell up!  I hated them.  And occasionally, my mini-me and I would catch a glimpse of drunk-ass Dave walking out to greet this ho and they would walk off together to her apartment.

One time, my child spotted Dave and this trick smacking lips outside his apartment door.  His wife wasn’t there.  Or, she was asleep.  I don’t know.

But the reason why I couldn’t stand his nasty ass was because he smoked cigarettes and the smell came through my apartment as if he was sitting in my livingroom!  I discovered that we shared the same furnace and because of that, I wrote a letter and I had my daughter write a letter to the landlord to explain the conditions and since they refused to fix it (I don’t know if they could fix it), I burnt out and moved way out to 140th and Metcalf in Overland Park, Kansas.

We were so happy to move to Overland Park.  Instantly, we felt healthier, happier and more whole.  But as we soon found out, all that glitters isn’t gold….

Getting Called the “N” Word in Johnson County

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KANSAS you can do better and I am not talking about the basketball game….

Walking out of my dr. appt, @ 95th & Metcalf on Monday, I see a black male walking in a wide open parking lot and some middle aged white male in the passenger seat of a brown van w/ his head out the window & his arm out banging on the side of the door yelling “NIGGER! I hate you people. Go back to Africa. NIGGER!” Didn’t know any of them but today was not the day for this stupid stuff. So I stepped in cause if you gonna mess with the youth, you gonna mess with me! And lucky for dumb ass, the driver of the van he was in had the common sense to drive off. Yeah, they were real big bad WOOSIES to be in the van and drive off. I told him to take his medicine and he could leave. We STOOD OUR GROUND. He reminded me of the same fool who whispered in Jada’s ear at Buffalo Wild Wings and told her that “Obama sucks” and I had to stop him from driving off in his Mercedes cause I am TIGER MOM when it comes to my child. Yeah, Jada was about 10.

I stayed with the youth and stood by him as we called the police and filed a report. It’s called DISORDERLY CONDUCT. (The little dude said they were trying to run him over. He had on a tank top and shorts kinda saggin’.) This is someone’s son. I stood up for him because he is right HERE in my own backyard. This has nothing to do with Trayvon and hoodies. This is old-school KENYA KIMBROUGH all day, every day.

Don’t mess w/ the babies around me. This is why I don’t let my child walk to the store here in Johnson County; there are too many people here who feel SELF ENTITLED and live in this fishbowl of wealth driving their three mile radius to Hen House, J. Alexander’s, Lifetime Fitness, and Wal-Mart; and don’t understand that money doesn’t give them the right to act like the KKKLAN. It’s more dangerous as Troost and Prospect but much of it doesn’t go reported. So I went through this, I wonder how many more. I still hear his voice yelling back: “Ms. Kimbrough! THANK YOU!”

“YOU HAVE NEVER REALLY LIVED UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN NEVER REPAY YOU.”

I have never heard so much racism and ignorance as I have since Obama was elected as President. Obama’s white mother is from Kansas yet some people have truly LOST THEIR MINDS. They can no longer hide their hatred, predjudice and ignorance. They are still struggling that a man of color can be President. They want to take “their country back.”

In Johnson County within the last year, I was called a “sand monkey” on a job, my neighbor was outside my window drunk and yelling “Nigger” several times one night after coming from the club. Not sure why. I separated myself from a friend who had the AUDACITY to say “You voted for Obama because he was BLACK and couldn’t understand why he can’t use the “N” word, and then what happened with this little youth.

My feelings aren’t hurt from it. I don’t know why, but am grateful, that I am numb to a lot of stuff like that. Perhaps it is because I know so much about history and the lies that have been told to make people think they are better or worse because of color. I think that KNOWLEDGE OF THYSELF and being self-educated has helped shield me from this crap. I also believe that understanding the law and my unabashed ability to fight on my own legally helps me cope and helps my daughter cope with this.

In the last four years, it’s like watching people who have worn suits and masks to hide their true identities who have been exposed in broad daylight. Interestingly, these men all have Donald Trump’s hairstyle. But I feel like I have this third eye and can see through their skin and I see monsters walking. Sometimes I look over when I am stopped at a street light and they turn their heads to look at me, and I see bulging eyes, fangs, and pus oozing down their faces.

Were it not for the fact that following this, I went to the store and two white ladies let me cut in front of them because I had one item, or the man who made eye contact with me and smiled with his kind, sparkly green eyes, or my friend who chopped up music with us at his restaurant and he treated us like princesses, or my neighbor who walks her dog who always looks out for us, I could start looking at EVERYONE out here like that. But God who annointed me with discernment and the ability to read people like a book wanted me to see that it wasn’t everyone. And to not stop loving people.

I am grateful for them because I am never numb to LOVE.

Hello world! And this is not Dorothy….

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I started this site today as a way for me to tell my story about what I have and am experiencing in Kansas.  I need to write down and share videos and photos of this place.  Some of it is okay and seems normal, but some of it is wild.

I started to write my thoughts on Facebook but decided that I would better serve myself by adding it to my own website.  If people want to know what I am thinking or feeling, then they need to come here and check it out.

So here we go…