Are U Smarter than ... Anybody?

WOW! It's been a minute since the last time I've blogged here. So I will just delve right into my topic.

There is something that I want to do but I don't know just how to go about doing it. I want to instill some pride and sense of accomplishment in my black brothers. I have been on this planet for more than 5 decades, so I have been thinking about this for a long time. And, by "accomplishment", I mean things that are worthwhile and that show intellect, intelligence, and education. You may not agree with the terms I've just used, but I'm reaching, I'm grasping for straws; help me out if you can. You can call it by any name(s) you please, but I'm referring to all of the things that produce leaders on the national and world stage. We have a most noble and great example in our Black U.S. President. But we could use millions more. We just need a way to polish those lumps of coal into the brilliant diamonds that they can become.



But the first thing that I believe we need to do is to demolish (somehow) this long-standing thinking that we can only achieve prominence, greatness, riches, and fame through entertainment. I don't know if you have ever taken a serious look at this but you might be surprised to find out that this type of thinking permeates our entire culture in Black America. And it's been that way for as far back as I can remember, although the extent of it has grown and spread considerably in the last couple of decades. I wish that I/we could get the masses of professional Black athletes, singers, dancers, and actors to understand this first, then they could use their influence to direct most of our boys and young men to embrace education, intelligence, and intellect and (at least temporarily) reject the pursuit of the entertainment fields as vocations.



You may not see it the same way as I do yet but I implore you to take a serious, open minded look at what our people consider to be important in life and thus what they pursue. I think that it is terrible for us to strive for entertainment (almost exclusively) but what's worse is that it seems like we have reclined into believing that this is ALL that we can excel in and this is ALL that we can attain the pinnacle of success in!



And then finally, now in this age of "audio, video, and text" communication via our phones and computers, it looks like we're on a course of getting worse and worse. Far too many of our young (and not-so-young) brothers and sisters regularly use these media for vulgarity and filth. They use it with such ease too. The older adult friends and relatives of these abusers should respond and reprimand them at every opportunity. This is not acceptable and should not go unchallenged! People, let's wake up! You need to know that many of these boys, girls, and young adults simply do not realize what they are saying and doing - they think it's somehow noble and bold or grown up and mature or even cute. Those of us who know better should step up and speak up.

We need help, indeed with do. But I believe that there are at least a few of us around who were taught to have faith in God. Therein lies the answer. And I don't mean this contemporary faith that flourishes today - I'm talking about the "old landmark". Yes, I am old fashioned and I make no apologies for it. As I said I am old enough to have grown up in the fifties and sixties. Therefore I was a first hand observer and recipient of Grandma's Hands and Grandpa's (heavy) Hand, if you know what I mean. Yes We Can "do all things through Christ, who strengths us".