When are we going to stop blaming and start clamining?
Now has come the time that we as black people are going to have to wake up and start reclaiming our lives back. As African-Americans we are experiencing a serious disconnect within our families, communities, schools, and church’s. Our youth is walking around dropping out of school, robbing, stealing, killing and claiming they are, “doing what they gotta do!” Black people it is time for us to do what we gotta do!
One of the major problems leading to the disconnects black people are facing is the absence or the lack there of positive black families. Black men and women are no longer getting married and making love and building families; but, shacking up and making babies. Our kids have no concept of what a family is. You know there’s a problem when you have to go on Maury to find out who your babies’ daddy is or if she is your baby’s momma.
Our communities are being overcome by violence and black on black crime. We perpetrate it through so many venues. We sing and spit lyrics that spark violence. We pimp and prostitute ourselves. We sell drugs to our mothers and disrespect our elders. We steal, rob, and kill each other not realizing that we are only killing ourselves. We are eliminating our race, which is such a disgrace.
Our schools have become a breeding ground for violence. Some of us don’t even know who are kid’s teachers are and could care less. People say, “Look at dem white schools. Dey always have everything.” We can’t worry about them, because what people fail to realize is no one had to die for them to have a right to an education. Our right to an education has not come without great sacrifices, such as brutality and even death. When we rob ourselves of an education, we might as well spit on the graves and in the faces of those who gave so unselfishly that we may have a right to learn and earn. When we deny ourselves of an education, we rob ourselves of a future. Many schools within our communities lack resources and we are always complaining about what we don’t have and what the white schools have. But, how many of us get involved in our schools by donating time and resources?
Church used to be a place of refuge for many of us. Our parents brought us up in the church and taught us about the power of prayer. Many of our children don’t even visit a church for Easter. Our church’s have so much hypocrisy, fornication, and adultery going on within them, until people have lost the faith. In some cases the cover charge is just too high.
I am not knocking anyone particular, but simply saying we have all played a part in our quest to self-destruction. We are depending on welfare to raise families, while continually making more babies. We spend thousands of dollars on video games, violent music, and countless other non-essential items, but cannot afford to purchase books? Our kids are walking around with their pants to their knees with names on them they can’t even pronounce. Our kids believe and fall in to the fallacies they view on television. They view shows like Sweet Sixteen and expect to have $200,000 parties, drive $500,000 cars, and talk to their parents any kind of way. What message are we sending to our children, but then want to blame others for the dysfunction and disconnect going on within our communities. No matter what title you hold, your status, or how much money you make or don’t make; we must all accept and take responsibility for our disconnect from the things that mean the most.
I hope that you have noticed my continuous use of the word we, us, and our. You and me form the word we. Neither you nor I can turn things around alone, but we can do it together! We have gotten ourselves in this mess and it us up to us to get ourselves out of it. The problems and issues being faced in black communities is all of our problems.
It is time that we empower ourselves and children with the priceless treasures that will support personal and professional growth and development; treasures that no one except for God can take from us. Morals, values, pride, determination, love, dedication, perseverance, integrity, and above all God are key ingredients to a strong foundation. We are only as strong as the weakest man or woman on our pole. So, let’s do what we have do!



Asked by tcox 11 months ago
Communities: Stop Violence, Be a Parent/Caregiver, Get an Education/Skills
Topics: Family Values, discipline, and culture

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