I woke up today feeling somewhat bewildered as to why our people can't get along.  I hear shouting and inappropriate language.  I turn to try and drown out the sounds and go back to a peaceful sleep.  Unfortunately the shouting only became louder.  I rose to go see what all the fussing was about and sure enough black on black crime one door away from my house.  I see men arguing and a woman going off on her lover, telling him to get his things and go.  IN the mist of all the shouting there lies her brother with a gun, he shoots one down to the ground and this just infuriates the lover.  He began to approach the brother and try to ask him to square up with fists.  Eventually the lovers friends convinces him to leave but with a warning that they will be back tonight to kill everyone in the home.  They say they are going to burn the house down.  Okay this happened a door away from my home and although I have nothing to do with it, I can however be a victim of a senseless crime.  I often wonder why African American have so much hostility in them.  For me I understand that the struggle is real and it may seem hard to go out in this world and demand your piece of the pie.

We as African Americans should stand up and rise to the challenge in changing history and starting a new way of life.  There are plenty of African American success stories in the United States and we should seek them out.  Our history, is what it is; we are the only race of people here in the United States that were taken from our country and placed in this world to work for free and enslave not just our body but our mind and soul was also placed under the locks and the chains.  Our spirits were broken and we slowly became a product of the environment in which we were raised. Although slavery is in the past our mind set is still the same, we were conditioned to think we were worthless and had very little to offer this world other than picking cotton and serving the masses.  I on the other hand want to break the chains that hinder us and free our minds.  You may think your mind is already free and you are doing just fine in this world, but in reality under neath the designer clothes and fancy cars and toys, there lies a person who still feels worthless.  I am not saying all African Americans are this way, but what I am saying is that in the inner city there are a lot of wanna be's who want to be more than what they really are.  In this manner an intervention is in serious need.

I would like to someday find a way to show our people that there can be a rainbow waiting ahead for them, but they have to pave the way in order to reach that plato.  Hard work and dedication is the key to success, there is no future in the Lottery, just a dream that has a less likely chance of happening.  You have to work hard to get results; how do I know, well I am that person who felt I had no self worth, I am that person who looked at my skin color as a curse.  I am that person who said the man had his foot on my neck and I can't get free.  Who am I?  I am all that I want to be and can be today, I strive for excellence within myself and I try to exude that onto my loved ones.  I have allowed the tradition to be passed down to me because I had no choice in the matter, but as soon as I could take matters into my own hands and understood my past, I was able to pave the way for a better future.  So for this blog I speak to a select group of people, my people,  and I say "break the chains that has bonded you to a life of misery and hell on earth  It can be challenging but in the end it will be rewarding".