This is ridiculous. It’s 2011, but if you walk or drive the streets of urban America, you’ll see millions of Black Americans existing not much better than they did in 1911 when Jim Crow was in vogue, or 1811 when the “massa’s” voice was the only one that mattered. Shackled back then by racism and slavery; shackled now by illiteracy, poverty, segregation and a peculiar inability to form the bond of trust.
This is ridiculous. Explore the industrial cities of the greatest nation on earth and you’ll find hundreds of thousands of Black girls and boys, Black men and women living in conditions equal in squalor to Haiti or South Africa, or Cuba. Failing parents, failing schools, terrifically flawed political leaders; apathy and ignorance have spawned an attitude of hopelessness, while creating a cauldron of fear, anger, ruthlessness, and victimization in inner city America.This is ridiculous. Waiting for someone or something to change it. Waiting for the next King, or the next plan, or the next scheme. Waiting for them to drop some money, or create an opportunity or provide a chance. Waiting for the heavens to part or hell to freeze over.
We can’t wait anymore its time to act, now. No one is coming to the rescue of our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, nieces and nephews, trapped in “The Under” of urban America. We’re the only ones that can save their lives (and improve our own in the process) but like the rest of America we choose to ignore them too. That is truly ridiculous.
I agree with you, it is ridiculous. Who is feeding folks excuses for not stepping up, taking responsibility for their own present situations and future. I think for some it's easier to complain than to take action and change their lives.
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Thank You Carolyn, Something has to give & if we don't help each other & yet take responsibility for our own actions we may just have a lost generation on our hands. ^Jessica
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