Calling a spade a spade

I remember when I was in primary and the teacher used to ask, "Class who will finish this saying call a spade a spade...?" and hands would shoot up with the answer - NOT A BIG SPOON!!! and at the time I had no idea what the saying meant I was like huh you know those primary school sayings you just knew how to complete but had no idea what they meant.Kina a rolling stone gathers no moss - what does that mean?? etc so anyhu 15 or so years later I can say today as I watch the Florida proceedings of Trayvon....lets call a spade a spade America and not a big spoon...Racism is still as obvious as the nose on my face and exactly one month ago the racist murderer who acted in "self defense" is still roaming the streets.What made me mad more than the act was the negligence with which the police force reacted to the whole thing after all its just another black kid roaming the streets...And what has even brought me the blog is reading online that Zimmerman was attacked by Trayvon who mind you looking at the pics looks half I think quarter his size - apparently he was slammed to the ground by Trayvon and his head slammed against the pavement.That he had a bleeding nose etc etc so many unanswered questions and thanks to the "stand your ground law in Florida" or whatever the heck its called he was able to shoot Trayvon and plead self defense hence was not and a month later has still not been arrested.The case has racial undertones to it and the worst is they keep stressing on his Hispanic heritage - shifting light away from his white roots.Today I even saw somwhere how now we are learning Trayvon had been suspended from school for having a baggie that contained marijuana and all these things am thinking its just trying to shift gear and bring it back to the stereotype of being a minority- I mean whether he was carrying mariujana or skittles to school the fact remains his life is just as precious as the little white / hispanic chap in the Prep school.And the worst thing is so many black young men with so much potential are born into the life of gangs and drugs that that is all they end up doing and being now to add on societies stereotyping - I mean I have a friend I remember when we just came to the States he had dreadlocks at the time and was walking down a posh suburb and am not kidding a cop pulled up beside him and asked where he was going - he did not have a car by then we were FOBs - Fresh of the Boat lol and he was going to work.I kid you not he is 100% sure someone called the cops on him looking out the window....ok am digressing my point if you have not watched Boy of Baraka you need to see it - I was crying at the end - its a project that used to take inner city at risk young black males twelve thirteen for a year in a rural area in Kenya - where they learned to read , am tellign you at twelve and learning to read, pushed them to start talkign about what they wanted to be when they grew up and my oh my after that one year they returned to Baltimore with such an ambition gosh but the program had to stop after the 9/11 attacks it was so sad as they showed the boys back in the Public School system in inner city Baltimore where the ratio of students to kids is 1:40 in a class and how after a year they were back to square oen running the streets.Here is a link its a must watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwNAPbX7gM4
Okay so back to Trayvon I think the stand your grand law should be repealed and a new law implemented in Florida called the Trayvon Martin Law that has specific civil rights clauses - ok I dunno what am saying but I feel justice needs to be done...

One of my favorite lines from Tupacs song changes, "The penitentiary is packed and its filled with blacks."