Where has the Black Community Gone?

[JDGamage]

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.

[JABOOM]

Read Willie Lynch, look at the civil rights movement (Panthers included), and look at the all about me 80's then flashy 90's.

Many factors destoryed our loving structure..........only a lot of rebuilding can repair this problem.

Welcome to the forum

[Samoon]

Added to what Jaboom has stated, as black people it is imperative that we STOP and realize that "the fight" is NOT with ourselves. When WE finally begin to support one another in droves as illustrated by the Hispanics, progression will not be something that is looked upon as distant.

"As BLACK people, support one another and why not? Other ethnicities do. It is NOT a crime to support your own. I do and encourage others as well."

p.s. Welcome to the AC.

[MadameX]

Originally Posted by Samoon

"As BLACK people, support one another and why not? Other ethnicities do. It is NOT a crime to support your own. I do and encourage others as well."

Exactly. Through Grassroots efforts is where it starts. This forum will be revolution within itself. All Oreo Cookies & Toms got to go.

[Curious1]

We have become complacent..and enertia has set in us like rigor mortis...


Now, some of us do feel like the I Am Legend show/movie concept lbut like we're the last Black(s) on Earth...

I think we are the true Foster Children of AmeriKKKa...
I don't know if we will ever have another Black Wall Street like turn of the century Tulsa Oklahoma days had before the destruction by YT's...but we have ample enough nouveau Black "Rich" folks who could easily start the ball rolling..IF we trusted each other enough to not THINK that we were going to phuck up the plans or get "ripped-off" by some shady Black business practices....

I don't think in general and collectively Blacks THINK we could unite to do this on our own...I think we have a hidden ,inbred need to believe that only thru white support can we do anything of this magnitude...I think we still suffer from lack of racial and cultural confidence in Black leadership and the causes we may/may not support...

If things change it usually always start with a very few trailblazers..never the masses...The masses usually are naysayers UNTIL A CAUSE BECOMES "POPULAR"...

[RealTalk3000]

everybody getting paid off, or just dont give a crap anymore

[Sasori]

The community is still there, but divided.

We fight against our brothers, our sisters. We destroyed our family structure. We fight against what we are because many don't know exactly what it is. Our time is used being distracted by a variety of problems, while our focus is away at our enemies

[natirnr]

Are we ready to enact the solutions?
Do we care about the dope in our community?
Do we care about the thousands of men and women with felonies
And do we care about those folks beaten like they were in Guantanamo for defending their right to the homes the paid for in NewOrleans?
With all due respect,
check this board and others to see if this is at the forefront of our concerns or not.