askdiana says:
Wow! You are one to get to know. Look up www.toastmasters.org and find a club near you. Let your opinions form in front of others who will not only support you, but teach you how to use your talents in a more meaningful way!

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LuvMyPeople says:
Keep doing what you're doing! It will sink in. You are young and your peers are the ones really being affected by what is going on. Keep giving 'em knowledge.

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ronanthony says:
I understand exactly what you are experiencing, as I have been called crazy because of the way I speak about the current condition of my people. When I address the condition of our people to other blacks, they also give a nod as if they agree, but they never give their thoughts or opinions. What I came to realize is that they may not respond to what I'm saying but I've put the information out their for them, and usually they take the information and it comes up in another conversation with some one beside me. The key thing is to find ways to get other blacks at least talking about the issues in our community, and we can then move on to finding solutions. Keep stressing the condition of our community, but at the same time, find a way to put your thoughts into action. For example, for years I have talked about the problems in the black community, and now I'm starting an organization to help young black boys. When I mentioned this to people, they then take what I have been saying more serious, and they want to help. I think our people are looking for leaders to step up to the plate and show some action, and they will then begin to follow.

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urwututhink says:
It is great to hear you all discuss your views and how you express them. It's sad when those of us that stress things only meant for our best interest as people, are given the title of "stuck-up" or being bigots of some sort. Those who come to reinforce entitlement and blaming "the man" are greeted with more receptiveness than someone coming with a more in-your-face message that stresses ways we can make ourselves better and use some of the tools we overlook. That is a problem. The solution will have to be continuing to challenge our thinking and getting us to think differently and examine alot of our thoughts and beliefs. The examination will reveal an absence of thought in a lot of areas. A colleague of mine loves to mention the quote "It is much harder to mislead the informed than it is to drag the ignorant". Dreamer7, the conversations you have with family and friends is your personal attempt to help inform those around you. Your views will have an impact before it's all said and done, and the person it affects will be able to use some of what you gave them in order to shape their views and process all the information out there. I say that to say that your role is vital because your role is needed to help reach those of us who either don't think or think based on what's common and not necessarily what's in our best interest.

I commend the organization that you're starting Ronanthony. I have also been working on a media group that focuses on getting us to think differently and think in the best interest of our people and people in general. I know how it feels, Dreamer7, to say things and have people respond like it's Black Panther/revolutionary when it should be the norm.


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ddbanker24 says:

You are on the right track, 100 % belive in yourself and stop looking around for approal. if Martin Luther King and MalcomX would have done that we will be still going through seprate line for colors. We have a nice and fast ride with them now you need to step in and try to fix the mess around you blaze the trail open your mind say what you need to say with out any fear of what other have to say about your comments. We need more young people like you to move this slow train faster and faster and faster so we can all achive the Dream.

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bygINCpresents says:
you are the leader you've been looking for.

i'm a few years older than you but i also kept waiting for the next MLK or Malcolm X to come up and lead me. i remember in high school when spike lee's movie MALCOLM X came out and public enemy urging us to FIGHT THE POWER. i was poised to walk, to be led, to start a revolution. but... MLK and Malcolm are dead. their proteges are ineffective in national politics. i suspect that, until barack obama came on the scene, most young people today didn't believe in leaders. leaders --of all races-- have failed us. the world is skewing towards the individual. the future is about the individual dealing with their specific life politics and, hopefully, branching out from there to transforming the world. no more mass movements and big marches in washington dc. the future is about communities taking it upon themselves to illicit change on the grassroots level. that's the part of the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the fight to end colonialism or communism that we were never schooled in textbooks. IT WAS INDIVIDUALS DOING THINGS ON A SMALL SCALE. put those individuals together and you have a movement. school made it seem like we need a million people marching, boycotting or whatever to make change happen. all you need is you and the willingness to speak your truth.

but the struggle must continue in you and me. the tone of the message may need to change to get at the way people are conditioned to think today. look around, and we see that black folks have made incredible strides the past 40 years. we can no longer say the system is keeping us back. systemic racism is an american reality but making it through is a possibility. we have made it through, are making it through and will continue to do so with your help.

get going. click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugA0grC8D3I


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