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In all fairness, we can complain about being victimized by others outside of our race and want to protest and rally the troops. Yet when there is a murder perpetrated by a black against a black there is barely a blip on the radar screen.  So much goes on in our community and we sit back passively like sheep being led to the slaughter.

Until we take a stance on the issues that affect us no one else will. It’s our time to initiate action that will change our condition and recognize that it’s our responsibility to get the job done.

Nothing is going to fall out of the sky to save us nor can we expect that one person is going to come along and galvanize the masses. This is a job for a concerted effort as it is stated in the armed forces, all hands on deck. We’re engaged in trench warfare, we need to mobilize the rank and file to get the job done.

In our community, we suffer from gross negligence, that we have either directly or indirectly allowed to happen.  In the case of real change that has occurred from people who have been oppressed,  it happened from the bottom up. Some things cannot be legislated away, nor can a bureaucracy change the relationship that people have with one another, or towards one another.

For a community that is being held hostage from intrinsic factors, this is an inside job. We need a different paradigm because this one is not working for us. We have to start looking at each other in a more favorable light.  Accentuating the positive in one another, instead of recoiling from one another.

It may sound rhetorical, but we must allow our neighborhoods to be more conducive to bringing out the best in one another. Our churches as well must also bring forth a consciousness that once again encourages patronage,  to be the vanguard for addressing the solution to societal ills. People are disillusioned with the church because it would seem that not only have the people lost their way but so has the church.

Worth noting, not only are we being shortsighted by the church and the community but now even as alarming is the status of the schools. The diminishing return that we are getting from our schools. Now there seems to be an indictment against the schools, but it would seem that the schools would be more proactive in attending to the needs of this cohort of students.

Interesting, in the case of both the schools and the churches they are quick to state that it is not their job to deal with the societal and family, as well as economic issues that have impacted them respectively. Lest we forget that both the schools and the churches are at the epicenter of change, as evident with the children and the spiritual needs respectively.

Essentially people are treating us this way because they don’t value and even more so we don’t value one another. Our condition will not change until we start showing more respect for one another.

We have lost our way and we are wandering in the wilderness. It’s time for us to raise our consciousness, and appreciate who we really are. We have forgotten about the essential ingredient that made a difference when we didn’t have a recourse in the law, and that was our strong spiritual essence and a more favorable relationship with God.

it is time to embrace a consciousness that will be both pleasing to one another, as well as God. From a biblical perspective, we have been told to become a new creature in Christ. We must recognize that Christ was not just a regional, historical artifact, that is the exclusive attribute of anyone or anything. But as Eric Butterworth stated in Discover the Power Within You: Christ is the mind of God individualized.