The Failed Revolution

I read a lot of history and spend quite a bit of time looking into the history of the African American struggle. Over the last few weeks I have been looking into the many parts of the body working in the later years of the Civil Rights struggle. I wanted to look into the Black Power movement and what it meant. I am quite disturbed at what I have found in comparison. We went from a religious movement bent off of faith and the belief that God would bring us through (Dr. King "We shall overcome"). To a revolutionary militant mentality that said we were at war with the white man (Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver "The revolution will not be televised"). The mentality changed and the drugs opened into the ghetto. The religious leaders such as Dr. King and Malcolm X were gone. We had a black power group leading the fight that was systematically being infiltrated and destroyed by greed and drugs. The result is we came out of that movement in the mid 70's a bewildered and dope addicted community. Our role models had changed. No longer were we looking for a religious upstanding citizen to lead us. Our role models were being given by movies and Television. Superfly, The Mack, and Black Caesar showed us that the criminal had the answers. We descended into madness. In the subsequent 80's and 90's we went further and further into the criminal myths and allowed it to reinvent our culture. You find people even now saying they would never have done what Dr. King did. They would have fought and killed the white man. Sadly, the events of the last 40 years have made us a different and twisted society. We can look at the illusory images and see why whites feel it justifiable and acceptable for a black child to be murdered in the streets. They are all criminals! Look at their movies and their past. It is a lie but it is backed up by our actions and our cultural representatives out here. It has even bled over into our sports. Millions of memes went out calling Michael Vick a murderer and villain because dogs were killed on his property. Ray Lewis is still considered a murderer by some. Rappers perform and encourage our kids to screw, get high, and commit crimes. Black female performers shake their privates in the face of a horny and lost crowd. It is a high priced burlesque show. At the end of the spectrum and removed from all these schemes are little black boys and girls that have to navigate through this madness. They are the victims of our failed struggle. They are the ones that see twerking as a good thing. They are the ones that think the only way to get paid is to hustle or die trying! They are the ones that are the victims of white fear and aggression based off visual lies. No longer do we have the kids in Alabama screaming "We shall overcome!" We have a society talking about "Thirsty Niggas!" and "Turn Up Whores!" It is a disgusting problem. We lost our way and have never found that path that Dr. King and even Malcolm showed us. Truth comes through God because only he can keep you from falling. I welcome your replies.