Why I created This Site

Your Reality Begins With the Lens From Which You View It

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”

                                                            President Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”

                                                         Malcolm X

           What is this site about?  The definition of insanity is to keep trying the same old things but expect different results.  This site is dedicated to stopping the insanity in the African-American community in how we chose our leaders, use our resources and build power as a community in order to build upon the opportunities that we now have to finally abolish discrimination, racism and inequality.  I will discuss questions and proposed solutions for issues from politics, current affairs, and historical problems.  I am not presenting myself as the person with all the answers or even all the questions.  I am just the average brother with a lot on my mind.

            When I was growing up I got used to watching and then participating in discussions with my family about all types of issues from politics to history to society.  Once I started going to the barber shop I noticed that many of those family discusses appeared to have been replicated there.  I quickly became aware that it was not uncommon in most black folks experience to have those types of conversations at barber shops, cookouts, or over a game of spades in college or in a number of other different surroundings.  There is an old African proverb that “the ruin of a nation starts in the home of its people.”  Well if that is true than the reverse is also true that “the emergence of a nation starts in the homes of its people.”

            I am hoping to start conversations in a hundred homes than a thousand than a million and so forth.  I want to change how we as African Americans choose our leaders.  How we view what is important.  How we view politics.  How we view ourselves.   How we view how to build power as a community.

How can creating a blog to start a bunch of conversations in our community change anything?  Well the best way for me to explain my reasoning is for me to give a sports analogy.  You can not win a game when you are convinced of the other team’s superiority.  You have to believe that you can win long before you play the game in order to be a champion.  One of our primary problems as a community is the way we as individuals and therefore as a community think about ourselves, our opportunities, and our resources.  “Free your mind and the rest shall follow.”

I do not have all the answers or all the questions.  But I hope that as we have a conversation, we all can learn something and start to change our world for the better.

I will post an article at least once a week and I hope to hear from you folks out there.