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"I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE"
By Joe C. Hopkins
I will not apologize for being blessed, for being Black, or for bigger than life parents who taught me that God
made the best.
I will not apologize for hating evil and loving good and for having enough sense to know the difference.
I will not apologize for knowing that there are enemies who don =t sleep at night trying to figure out new ways to destroy my progress
and the progress of my people.
I will not apologize for knowing that the spirit of Willie Lynch lives and there are some enemies who even look
like me.
I will not apologize for saying it =s better to have a home mortgage than a Mercedes that you can=t afford, for telling our young it=s better to
dress for success than dressing for arrest, for teaching that there=s a difference between music that uplifts and crap rap that degrades, for knowing Aain=t nothing
like the real thing," for learning if you want a do right woman, you’ve got to be a do right man, because we all deserve
respect.
I will not apologize because I =m
Black and I=m Proud, I am your Brother, not AYour Dawg@ and you don=t have to give me anything, just
open up the door and I=ll get it myself.
I will not apologize for knowing the difference between real actors like Samuel L Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Denzel
Washington, Halle Berry, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, and those fakes that are being put on us as role models for our kids.
I will not apologize for teaching our kids that we are winners because of our ancestors like Sojourner, Harriet,
Douglass, Garvey, Malcolm, Martin, Langston, Marian and Mahalia.
I will not apologize for teaching our kids that we must accentuate the positives like Jazz, R & B Gospel ,
our young heroes like Venus, Serena and Tiger and demonize the negative like, the poison of the gangster life and Ganster
Rap, dope smoking, porno rapping Snoop Dogg, and thugs like Ice Cube, and Tupac who wasted their talents getting rich and
infamous glorifying killing and calling our women out of their names. I will not apologize for teaching them that just because
drug dealers selling cocaine and pimps and prostitutes make money don =t make it right.
I will not apologize for telling parents to keep their kids in Church, in School, at Home and in your eyesight,
and you will keep them out of gangs, out of jail, and out of an early grave.
And parents should not apologize for saying "It =s my child and it=s my choice."
I will not apologize for battling the Black self-hating Clarence and Connerly who have joined together to destroy
the progress Blacks have made.
I will not apologize for teaching that we need to stop giving all our money to the big hotels
for annual dinners and put our money together to buy a hotel.
I will not apologize for criticizing the so-called Black leadership for not confronting the real problems in Black
America; the dependent Black economy which still is dependent on the largess and charity of white America. We need leaders
who understand that leaders don =t beg
and beggars don=t lead.
I will not apologize for ‘Buying Black’ and Recycling Black Dollars, and buying land and creating small
businesses which is more important than buying Cadillacs when traveling on the road to independence to rise above the legacy
of being considered a permanent underclass.
I will not apologize for telling it like it is no matter how much it exposes lies that make you feel good, and
I will not apologize for who I am because it’s all good!
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