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We have the lowest test scores of all school age children across America, the highest rates of incarceration, death and murder among males
for any one race of people across America and the highest out of wedlock births across America. Blacks are the proud owners of the highest
percentages of HIV and AIDS while Brothers on the Down-Low and we keep that quite but yet we tell Gay people they cannot marry. There is
a sickness in our Blackness! When will we demand change from within?
As a single mother of three children, I worked diligently to reinforce the importance of family, education, identifying with and respecting your
Blackness as a part of your strength. I have only seen those concepts counted as meaningless today. These were the concepts my mother
and father raised me and my ten brothers and sisters under in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s (there were 11 of us) and we all have
Bachelors degrees or higher with the exception of our seriously disabled sister. I think those principles worked! But better than that, my
Father taught us the beauty in our Blackness. He taught us how being of African descent was a bonus for us and not something negative like
the world would like to make us think. Our Blackness gave us strength; our Blackness gave us style and will forever be a symbol of
overcoming life’s adversity.
I now find myself in 2009 having to teach myself and my two sons to cope with a public school system that treats them like future criminals
instead of future scholars. My experience with my daughter is less than encouraging. I failed in trying to convince her to put herself first in
relationships and to respect and honor herself first. This has only ended with the creation of my grandson Elijah last summer at the hand of
some character she met over the internet. She bought into the perception that an electronic relationship is a real relationship. And my
children, one out of wedlock, two while married are all the proud recipients of deadbeat dads out making other children they cannot pay for.
This is a fight that is too overwhelming for any one Black organization to correct and one that will take a deeper understanding of who we are in
order to win. We must gain a deeper understanding of our true history and the many that came before us who died in an effort to win equality
for our generation. I hate to think we have reduced the lives of MLK Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and many others to the ability to freely
disrespect ourselves as long as we make money. As long as we have the ability to park a Chrysler 300 in the stall of our apartment complex
while dressing our illegitimate infant child in a pair of Jordan’s, call ourselves Minister Pastor or Reverend while leading groups of people to
nowhere, we are living the American Dream. Equally as much, Dr. King did not die so we could get our degree, buy that big house and
Beemer or maybe two and then turn our nose up to our own family member or other Black person who may be less well off than we, without
extending a hand? Oh and the incredible amount of “hatin’” that goes on between us really needs to stop! That kind of divisiveness just feeds
into the plans of those who wish to destroy us!
This fight should have been over years ago, we are the oldest minority in America and the worse off! When I was just a child, Black people
were given over to the devices of Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow Coalition of Pimps and we were asked to call them our leaders. We were
also asked to celebrate some meaningless made up holiday called Kwanza (did I spell it right?) that has no significance to anyone or any of
the struggles Blacks face as Black Americans. And what Negro’s do the NAACP advance? Those who would advance anyway? What is
the name of the organization that helps the helpless, hopeless Negro’s advance? I guess as long as Oprah keeps the weight off and
prominent Black males keep getting caught being stupid (not to mention the millions of just regular Black men and boys getting caught daily
being stupid), all is good and as expected in the Black community. Blacks in America are viewed, portrayed and treated like America’s
garbage, especially our men and boys.
Black people have to stand up for other Black people. Wealthy Black people have to stand up for poor Black people, educated Black people
have to stand up for and educate uneducated Black people, young Black people have to stand up for and help old Black people. Black
people who live their lives with integrity and character must find and teach those who do not. Black fathers who are active in the lives of their
children must explain the importance of that to a Black man who is not. It is not enough that there is now a Black President but it surely is a
wonderful tool to use as motivation for Blacks all over the country to put a plan in place to change the perceptions of Blacks in America. Be
that person in your home, your neighborhood and at your job who agrees to live life in a manner that demands respect. Do it for yourself but
most importantly for Black children.
Reach out to Black people with the most need. Go to low income neighborhoods and talk to the people and treat them with respect, go to the
prisons and meet those men who are soon to be released and see what you can do to help them stay out and be productive when they come
out. Help an incarcerated mother deal with her children on the outside if she has that need. Help a single mom in your neighborhood or go
visit that old Black lady that lives across from you and take her some food. That would mean the world to each life you touch and even more
in your own, take it from me. If you feel you cannot do these things on your own, please come join me!
The lives of our great leaders were not meaningless. I was born in 1964. I was that child Dr. King dreamed about and so were you. His
struggle was for the benefit of Black people first and people everywhere second and that must be remembered. Our leaders gave their lives
trying to take us forward and we have slipped so far backward without really knowing or seemingly caring about it. We should be more
successful as a group than we are. Remember, your Blackness is your strength! Please do all that you can do to change the perception of
Blacks in America. We all must care.
for any one race of people across America and the highest out of wedlock births across America. Blacks are the proud owners of the highest
percentages of HIV and AIDS while Brothers on the Down-Low and we keep that quite but yet we tell Gay people they cannot marry. There is
a sickness in our Blackness! When will we demand change from within?
As a single mother of three children, I worked diligently to reinforce the importance of family, education, identifying with and respecting your
Blackness as a part of your strength. I have only seen those concepts counted as meaningless today. These were the concepts my mother
and father raised me and my ten brothers and sisters under in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s (there were 11 of us) and we all have
Bachelors degrees or higher with the exception of our seriously disabled sister. I think those principles worked! But better than that, my
Father taught us the beauty in our Blackness. He taught us how being of African descent was a bonus for us and not something negative like
the world would like to make us think. Our Blackness gave us strength; our Blackness gave us style and will forever be a symbol of
overcoming life’s adversity.
I now find myself in 2009 having to teach myself and my two sons to cope with a public school system that treats them like future criminals
instead of future scholars. My experience with my daughter is less than encouraging. I failed in trying to convince her to put herself first in
relationships and to respect and honor herself first. This has only ended with the creation of my grandson Elijah last summer at the hand of
some character she met over the internet. She bought into the perception that an electronic relationship is a real relationship. And my
children, one out of wedlock, two while married are all the proud recipients of deadbeat dads out making other children they cannot pay for.
This is a fight that is too overwhelming for any one Black organization to correct and one that will take a deeper understanding of who we are in
order to win. We must gain a deeper understanding of our true history and the many that came before us who died in an effort to win equality
for our generation. I hate to think we have reduced the lives of MLK Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and many others to the ability to freely
disrespect ourselves as long as we make money. As long as we have the ability to park a Chrysler 300 in the stall of our apartment complex
while dressing our illegitimate infant child in a pair of Jordan’s, call ourselves Minister Pastor or Reverend while leading groups of people to
nowhere, we are living the American Dream. Equally as much, Dr. King did not die so we could get our degree, buy that big house and
Beemer or maybe two and then turn our nose up to our own family member or other Black person who may be less well off than we, without
extending a hand? Oh and the incredible amount of “hatin’” that goes on between us really needs to stop! That kind of divisiveness just feeds
into the plans of those who wish to destroy us!
This fight should have been over years ago, we are the oldest minority in America and the worse off! When I was just a child, Black people
were given over to the devices of Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow Coalition of Pimps and we were asked to call them our leaders. We were
also asked to celebrate some meaningless made up holiday called Kwanza (did I spell it right?) that has no significance to anyone or any of
the struggles Blacks face as Black Americans. And what Negro’s do the NAACP advance? Those who would advance anyway? What is
the name of the organization that helps the helpless, hopeless Negro’s advance? I guess as long as Oprah keeps the weight off and
prominent Black males keep getting caught being stupid (not to mention the millions of just regular Black men and boys getting caught daily
being stupid), all is good and as expected in the Black community. Blacks in America are viewed, portrayed and treated like America’s
garbage, especially our men and boys.
Black people have to stand up for other Black people. Wealthy Black people have to stand up for poor Black people, educated Black people
have to stand up for and educate uneducated Black people, young Black people have to stand up for and help old Black people. Black
people who live their lives with integrity and character must find and teach those who do not. Black fathers who are active in the lives of their
children must explain the importance of that to a Black man who is not. It is not enough that there is now a Black President but it surely is a
wonderful tool to use as motivation for Blacks all over the country to put a plan in place to change the perceptions of Blacks in America. Be
that person in your home, your neighborhood and at your job who agrees to live life in a manner that demands respect. Do it for yourself but
most importantly for Black children.
Reach out to Black people with the most need. Go to low income neighborhoods and talk to the people and treat them with respect, go to the
prisons and meet those men who are soon to be released and see what you can do to help them stay out and be productive when they come
out. Help an incarcerated mother deal with her children on the outside if she has that need. Help a single mom in your neighborhood or go
visit that old Black lady that lives across from you and take her some food. That would mean the world to each life you touch and even more
in your own, take it from me. If you feel you cannot do these things on your own, please come join me!
The lives of our great leaders were not meaningless. I was born in 1964. I was that child Dr. King dreamed about and so were you. His
struggle was for the benefit of Black people first and people everywhere second and that must be remembered. Our leaders gave their lives
trying to take us forward and we have slipped so far backward without really knowing or seemingly caring about it. We should be more
successful as a group than we are. Remember, your Blackness is your strength! Please do all that you can do to change the perception of
Blacks in America. We all must care.
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