HERESY said:
^^^ YOU EVER WATCH "A SOLDIERS STORY"? ITS A MOVIE WITH DENZEL WASHINGTON.
I WOULD BE LIKE SGT WATERS ONLY LESS EXTREME. THE PROBLEM IS THIS.
THE BLACK MAN IN AMERICA NEEDS TO LOOK AT *HIMSELF* BEFORE HE CAN LOOK AT THE WHITE MAN.
WE ARE THE ONES WHO CONTROL OUR LIVES. NOT THE WHITE MAN.
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I WOULD BE LIKE SGT WATERS ONLY LESS EXTREME. THE PROBLEM IS THIS.
THE BLACK MAN IN AMERICA NEEDS TO LOOK AT *HIMSELF* BEFORE HE CAN LOOK AT THE WHITE MAN.
WE ARE THE ONES WHO CONTROL OUR LIVES. NOT THE WHITE MAN.
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The deepest thing you said in your post is that the black man needs to look at himself in the mirror before he looks at the white man, which is very true. It's the exact opposite in the black community; we look at the white man before we look at ourselves however this action is due to yesterday’s racism (slavery). What the black community needs to understand is that the white man has done all that it's going to do for the black community, and of course the job that was done was half-assed. Do not look for him to do anymore...
So the solution to our problem?
S A C R I F I C E
The truth is that black people want to see success within our communities, we want to see our people doing well. HOWEVER, one of the biggest problems in our community is that we only want to be apart of that community after it has been paved and the foundations has been laid. We do not want to be apart of the process of building that successful community.
What sacrifices are brothas and sistas willing to make to help our community?
A fault I see in myself is that when I or other people talk about the black race and it's problems we are talking from the perspective of what "others" should do and not from what WE should do to help our community. So the first thing we need to do is make a sacrifice, what are you willing to give up to help the next brotha or sista right next to you? Are we so into ourselves that we do not care for making this world a better place for other black people, heck even for other people period? Individualism and selfishness will not help our community prosper it will continue to make our community sink deeper and deeper to the point where survival is very slim. Blacks will have to make a tough decision and that is either to follow the dominant culture in which individualism and selfishness is part of the pursuit of the American Dream or stray away and help our community by promoting love, knowledge, and economics…
We have to know and love ourselves and where we are from, including me even though I am not from the descendants of slaves. If you do not love Africa and African people there will be no mark of world progress of black people. The only difference between Africans and African Americans is the white influence in our history.
Personally, it took me awhile to think of the sacrifices I was going to make, because it’s a tough thing.
-Investing my time with working with young kids in inner cities..
-Investing: Instead of putting my money into that Cowboy Jersey, hat, watch, and jewelry I saw last week..lol!! I promise to put that money away and maybe just maybe start my own foundation like I’ve always wanted to do…hmmm I’ll see what I’m made of by the end of the year…
-Networking: I am only one man, I can not make the type of impact that I want on this world on my own, so with that said it is a goal of mine to find people who feel me and are down with my train of thought and will be willing to participate. Basically I need to get more involved and hit up different functions and connect with people around the country and different parts of the world...
Thoughts???