Bury me in the ocean with my Jordans on
Let me tell you how my generation ain't shit.
A great man once said: "Laaaa laaaa la la...wait til I get my money right."
Ever since, we keep thinking everyone will be famous. Enough to deliver the justice so long sought. We all gone get our money and fix it.
But we won't because we have the same idea of progress as the fools who wiped our ass. I'm here doing what their fight for access gave me. No more or less.
Yet, so many of my peers think we resist better. That we fly out more so we've seen more. That we read more and must then know more. We stunt on the ancestors. So let me break down areas where we swear we've advanced and explain why they truly ain't shit and we have, in some ways, a longer road to travel.
1. Technology - We are OD wasting this lol and it's not even close. We should either be a) traveling through time or b) traveling through space. Lord knows we're not. But you know what we can do? AirDrop these nudes. LIKE THAT! Cool trick, 21st century. I waited a whole life of Star Wars and Mars landing movies to be able to send texts with unlimited data. I am blessed and highly favored.
2. Food - How many gluten documentaries scare you? Am I low fat? Do I carb? This is how we sound, no lie. Like a bunch of info-starved, cancer-ridden, wannabe-vegan flesh roaches. I went vegan so I could buy and eat whatever line of food Serena Williams makes, but at least I can point to a solid reason. I literally don't know how to eat unless a beautiful, famous person tells me how. And that beautiful, famous person will get cancer and die too so la-DEE-da. What's your gluten-free raison d'être, ho? Don't worry, I'm sure it's fully dumb.
3. Social Justice - HA! Basically, social media points out how different we are until we go cry about it to the people who agree with us. It is also our greatest tool for understanding each other. But whatever chance we had to advance positive thought with it is killed by the notion that popular thought gets the most traction on the internet, good or bad. So, the only way to rack up points on the social scoreboard is to yell at everyone who's clearly wrong, or hide the fact that you're wrong sometimes. But ideally it's both. You wanna be yelling at everyone wrong and refusing to admit your mistakes.
4. General life sh*t - If your struggle involves "colorways" or "student loans," it's not a struggle. (Not to get all Oppression Olympics on you, or whatnot but.) My grandmother cleaned up after people's shit and their babies' shit so she could file a fatter tax return in the 80s. And she's got enough years of ONLY smiling around me that I allow myself to believe -- for seconds at a time -- that her smile means she's fine and has successfully converted those years of real struggle into peace. I have apps that balance my checkbook and I still don't smh. That is the extent of the struggle I'm dealing with. Couple that with the moments I lose WiFi access on the subway and I'm a full-on freedom fighter. Fucking ridiculous b.
Naw, I'm not saying that we don't struggle. The police still kill based on who you most look like, not what you've done. We are not born into credit. But I notice some real turn-the-other-cheek type movements when it comes to the hard choices we'd need to make to reset the order.
Since, by and large, I'm not willing to make those tough choices either, when I die, bury me with my Jordans on. Tell Alexa to close the casket so no one has to get up. Also, clear my browser history and log out.
But most of all, delete the accounts. My password is Password123!