Who said we cant re-occupy the Hood! Old Poor meet the New Poor

Who said we can’t re-occupy the Hood!

Old Poor meet the New Poor

For ages (seems to be) generations after generations of the hood have talked about how White and economically comfortable Black and Latino people are slowly moving in to their neighborhoods and by way of having better income gentrify those very neighborhoods.  Now these same whites and economically comfortable Blacks and Latinos are in the same position we poor people have been for years.  Corporate control over politics and policy has created a new era of two classes, The RICH and the POOR.  The once vibrant middle class is no longer.  This has caused these same whites and now a day economically comfortable Blacks and Latinos to take up the struggle that was once only spoken about the poor people of this country.  The once middle class has moved with a non violent force and occupied the thoughts of all people in the United States and made the world understand who this great power is doing business with in their very backyard. This new awakening of corporate control over public policy and politics has in my opinion, bridge that very gap created by classism in the United States.  Finally we are being showed that those uppity Whites, Blacks and Latinos were able to feel what us poor people felt for ages.  The shit is that they felt it for way’ less time we have and they got together and did something about it quick and effectively.  Not only did they do something about it but they also realized that we have been here talking and feeling this for years and have accepted that most of them lost connections from where they came from and open the door for us to become part of this movement.  The same economic conditions created by these big corporations open their eyes to our struggles and helped them align themselves with us.  Just like the most respected and feared G in the hood wakes up and changes after doing a 25 to life bid so did the middle class by getting dropped and used, just as we poor people have been by the corporations. 

The same hood has spoken about how the NYPD gang has become a force of fear and intimidation instead of a public agency of servitude and protection for that same public.  How they violently and oppressively have taken over our streets and civil liberties.  Unfortunately that has been all we have been doing for years, TALK.  The new poor (formerly middle class) has not only addressed the same issues we face but with conviction showed the world that NYPD has no right to stop civilians from their day to day civil liberties, and by no means can disrupt our constitutional rights as American citizens.  We all saw how they step to NYPD and even went toe to toe no matter the injury, arrest or harassment of personal space in recent months.   As all this takes place as I commute from borough to borough and all I hear in stores, barbershops, train stations, buses and even jail visits is still the same TALK.  I hear “Occupy has done this”, “700 occupy people got locked up in the BK Bridge”, “Its crazy how the system can’t feed people and Occupy Wall Street feeds all them people everyday”.

The hood and ALL its peeps needs to stop talking and rise up alongside occupy Wall Street.  I have personally been in G.A. Meetings, Spokes council meetings and have seen the numbers of our people rise steadily and slowly.  I can say that although there still is some social habit, those same people after being confronted notice they still have those prejudices and openly ask for groups to close those gaps and be more inclusive for the poor, no internet having, no education wanting, welfare going (LIKE ME), Blacks, Latinos and poor whites of New York.  But yet most of us poor people still don’t understand why the Occupy Movement is doing what they do and what is the power or energy that drives them to do in action what we the stepped on, always lackin’, ever mackin’ poor only talk about should happen. 

In my opinion this “new poor”, ever energetic mixture of people has come to the understanding that a system that promotes democracy and then with the same disdain takes away from the rights given by that same democracy should by all means be stepped to and fixed.  Fixed not by the means of a “new commission” appointed by those same corporate puppets but by the people they say and falsely promote they represent.  In fact, the occupy movement has been struggling to erase, eradicate or stop doing (however you want to say) by way of consensus, the fact that one person on top of it all makes a decision for the whole people he/she represents.  Which means that if the occupy movement is more successful and the thoughts of a people in this generation changes. We could possibly find ourselves talking more effectively.  A conversation that begins in barbershops, or street corners or even in jail cells, then becomes a conversation talking about issues directly in front of those we voted to put in office. This proving to be a process that actually creates a real way to keep them fools to their words.  Hey maybe voting can become something that actually counts for something. 

But for that to be real effective and for the hood to feel really included,  We the poor of this city, state, country and the world need to stop poppin’ the lip, start moving the hip and become part of this Occupy Movement.  You might feel you have no place, or that people might not understand your intentions. Guest what! I even seen that, as long as your ideas, beliefs and needs can be inclusive with everyone in the movement and it’s inclusive, consensus way it has grown from.  You are just as important as Sally from White Plains NY or in the same class many of the many Rich folks that have given up their way to show that we all should be in one class.  The Human class!

Be Real! Re-occupy YOUR Hood!