Cut Throat

I've heard for every death, there's a birth. Yesterday I was informed that my lil cuz gave birth to a baby boy--7 lbs. 7 oz. Last night another cousin informed me that two cats were killed yesterday in Lincolnshire [in Marrero, LA] a neighborhood he was staying at for a while after the storm. Although i wasn't sharing the blunt my cuz had, the news blew my high related to the news of the baby.

There's much too much going on back home and it's related to a lack of love. I could say hate, cause there's a lot of hatin going on. As Soulja (Magnolia) Slim coined the term with his camp, it's cut throat. [For those interested, supposedly Cash Money is creating or working with others on a movie called Cut Throat City...as if cats needed more influence] Fact is, however, that it is like this all over the globe. I would do my home a disservice by singling them out as some sort of plagued city.

People must realize that these kids are running around out of control. Please don't take this statement literally, because I'm saying that people (mostly younger) are trying to step up to fill shoes that they really shouldn't be trying to fill. Most any cat out of N.O. is gonna call himself a soulja...it's pretty much branded into our hearts. It doesn't make everybody a gangsta and people need to really think about their actions because there is no honor amongst thieves, no matter how you look at it. Your first re-up could be your last.

Some rappers try to let you know (although I have my concerns about consistency, but this is life, right?) that now is not the time to get in big time. You have fed issues (the laws will cost you more than you make, believe it), snitching at an all-time high, and people ready to shoot first/ask questions later least much take you for what you got.

I don't know where this post is going but you have to really start thinking about one another these days. Capitalism and any other economic system is geared to putting power and influence in the hands of some whilst the remaining majority deals or suffers. We see this in America with suburbs, gated communities, ghettos and everything in between.

If we remain cut throat, trying to support only ourselves and families, then what will our families' lives be like? Will they be fighting/dying to preserve what they have because everyone else is trying to get a piece? We must learn to be happy within ourselves and content with where we are, else we'll allow greed to fester our lives.

I'll admittedly close this post abruptly, but not without sharing this sermon given by the late Martin Luther King, Jr. I am amazed at how we are not exposed to more of King's sermons, speeches and writings, but thanks to the late Coretta Scott King and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute--not to mention libraries and the internet--we can capture some of the ideals that God's servant was aiming to impart to us.

Many blessings to all of you