I Need Your Help Friends

[RBG3]

Originally Posted by Proudbrothaman

This is a great idea RBG but what I've learned by in my past three years of coaching youth football and helping with after school programs is saturdays are a tough sell for youth, especially the teen age years. You have to make it fun, because kids do things by word of mouth. If you can get them to start talking amongst each other about your program that that would be a huge step in the right direction.Football sells itself so when I'm coaching the kids will come but the programs I'm involved in started out with weak numbers but we made it so that the kids were learning without even knowing they were learning. Also we only go for a couple hours, unless its X-Box or playstation taking up 4 hours is a lot of time for the youth.

I don't know what to do in terms of making it fun..honestly I find it fun to learn the truth about our people..it's just difficult to show these youth what they don't want to see, which is they need to work harder to be succuessful. That life isn't about drugs, money, sex and "hood life"..life is about way more than this..I also want them to understand not everything is their fault, society is built against them, but that doesn't mean you give up, just means you fight harder. Black's have done this from the beginning of time, and we've grown as a people..but this society has found a way to keep us down with this concept of "ghettos" which can easily be reversed..with education..

[RBG3]

Originally Posted by umbrarchist

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Books for comparison are:

The Art of War by Sun Tzu via Thomas Cleary

Mastering The Art of War via Thomas Cleary

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wow, no joke I was buying this book (but the stores I got to have it overpriced) i skimmed through it and loved it. I'm buying the special edition featuring explained essays on his work.

[RBG3]

Originally Posted by Edward Williams

Perform video interviews on the street where you ask people about problem solving. If you're not setup to help people solve problems most people don't want no part of it anyway. We all have problems and most often we allow those problems to become more important than what we're seeing and the result is we can't see our way out of the situation we're in.

What is the worst problem in the neighborhood where you are? You could offer financial advice. A round of discussions on relationships. Building a better community. People are interested in all kinds of things. You just need to find out what people are interested in, what problems people have that they need help with and attack it from that angle.

I'd start with video interviews on the street asking people what problem they are facing right now that they need help with. Offer the person assistance right then, let them know about your community discussion group and how you're setup to address issues like the ones they are having right now and also how the things they learn in the group can help them for the rest of their lives...and give examples.

I like this, I'll try it, just to get an idea of what people see and don't see as problems..

What we were working on is, we recently did a rally in front of a police station to speak out against the police murders, and now are working on the poor living conditions of community housing. There are other causes we join with, buy my focus is helping on whatever problems the youth have, as well as educating them on our history.

I strongly believe that if our youth understood we were Kings and Queens, that they would not be killing each other over scuffed shoes and territory that doesn't even belong to them, but to the government..

But I will try the street interview, its a way to meet people, get ideas, and promote it directly. And putting together a dvd with this wouldn't be bad either..thank you, and thanks to ALL, you've been EXTREMELY helpful.