I have worked in environments where it was very rough with no real leaders supporting the killings in Hunters Point. I talked to people that represented the Bay View yet the money was spent on themselves and not the non- profit organizations. The thing that would make me get upset is when a white person would take over organizations when it should be black people from the community that live in the neighborhood. I sincerely believe black people need to come together and police their own communities especially because we are one and our ancestors were forced to come to this country against our own will. I think society today is affected from slavery, because when we were brought here from Africa the white man mentally enslaved us for years. For example killing black men in front of black women, making black men look weak and not strong. Eventually black woman looked to the white man for everything. Mental slavery was the worst thing for us because we suffer from it to this very day. That is the root cause of brothers killing their own, and the police don’t even have to infiltrate anymore because from slavery we were taught to hate ourselves which makes it justifiable for black men to kill and sell drugs to their own. Today in Hunters Point the killings are outrageous in numbers and they had to make an emergency town hall meeting with Kamala Harris, CBS news, and people from the community. All of this went down in 1998, but nothing ever happened after the meeting but a whole bunch of angry mothers and no solution to the loss of jobs in the community.
I am blessed now to meet someone who is active in Hunters Point community and is starting a march. Sala came to a newsroom with Poor Magazine and told her story of hope and love. There is not a coincidence that I went to these meetings and just now in 2013 I heard Sala speak about real issues and not just problems, but solutions.
During 1999 was the birth of her television talk show called the Real Life Mermaid. The radio show made her want to start a community peaceful walk. The walk is called One Life Walk and it is supposed to happen in a year, yet I wanted to start her story before the march as a making of the foundation this queen is going to lay. The walk will go into several directions at once it will all converge into the financial district at city hall. Separate walks will start in Vicitacion Valley, Hunters Point, Western Addition, the Avenues, Potrero, Fillmore, Tenderloin, and then the Haight. As the walk gets closer mapping will also take place. In Dallas, San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, Oakland, Richmond, New York, Atlanta, Memphis, and D.C. Sala is really centered and produces non fakeness yet positive directed and heart felt. She is free from artificial speaking and everyone loves her show. Eventually she wants to start a non- profit agency but that will come later on down the line. She wants to start an employment center, and a safe haven for people in the community especially our youth. Sala stresses that mothers and fathers should teach their children a knowledge of self. If they do not know their history they will not be able to define themselves as a person. I love the way she feels about women, because the woman is the creator and her whole motivation came from her child. A nation can rise no higher than its woman, because a man can’t create but a woman can give birth to a nation. Sala is the represenatative of that aspect, because through her womb came wisdom, freedom and a voice. Sala has delayed the march for a year. The exact date of the One Life Walk will be held on June.20th 2014.
Finally we have a rise in the community and I sincerely believe this walk will be beautiful and rewarding. If we can change childrens’ aspects on their culture and environment we can help our future. Sala will put all of these aspects I just talked about into fruition. As Sala said “It is time to remember, it is time to stop all the noise and act, it is time to redirect energy, it is the time for change NOW.”