It's time to begin addressing the state of the Black Community. Where has it gone? Where are the individuals, leaders, both in family and the public eye, who would stand up and say, because they see what’s going on, enough is enough. No longer will we watch our community and the hope for our future generations being destroyed. Who cares enough to say, “I wasn’t something better, not just for my child, but for each and every African-American child living in America today.” Once upon a time the saying, "it takes a village to raise a child" wasn't just sentiment, it was a lifestyle. As African-Americans we worked towards the common goal of bettering our people. The goal of reaching back and helping each other to accomplish our goals.
Unfortunately, we seem to have forgotten that somewhere along the lines someone helped us. At some point and time someone gave us a motivational speech, or encouraged us to hang in there. That was the community atmosphere that made us unique. We would never have accomplished the things we did, like Civil Rights and all it entails, if we would not have bonded together. Where are those individuals today who will step up and say: no more will we allow our children to grow up with the mentality of bypassing hard work to try and earn a quick buck. No more to seeing our young stars, athletes, business professionals, and others living a life without giving back to the community. Someone needs to remind the pastors of these huge and mega churches that they are missing the point. If your church isn’t influencing those in it to go back to their community and make it better then you aren’t accomplishing the things Christ would have had you to do.
The more and more one takes off their blinders and really and truly looks out at the African-American community, the more one is forced to confront the true reality of the sad situation we are in. We’re loosing our men and boys, at younger and younger ages to the jail system and to the drug gangs. Our women are being forced to shoulder greater and greater loads and the toll is beginning to show. Once upon a time we could point to the everyday items that we use around the house and show how an African-American man or women were the inventors of that item, but now, what are the latest advances that our people have contributed to society. How is it that there is no one saying it’s wrong to simply go out and make it (as a politician, entertainer, pro athlete, professional) and then forget about those in your community. If this mentality doesn’t soon change. If there is not soon a movement back towards community and away from this selfishness that has engulfed our culture, we will soon find ourselves without a community, and foreigners in our own land.
