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Posted: 07/24/2009 13:30
I paid attention to the realities different young, Black professionals lived in. They seemed so distant from one another; worlds apart [like some of us]. One segment was on an elitist group while another was on a woman from Atlanta who (apparently) had no group at all. She simply made good choices and succeeded. Then there was a guy getting out of prison who wants to someday be a professional. It would be interesting to have them all meet. We in between these ranks must step up [and in] to close the gap. We each deal with a part of the same system. By sharing knowledge and experience we can improve the system, or make a better system for our goals.
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Posted: 08/04/2009 09:27
I did not catch a lot of the show but I did see the parts where they took the teens to Africa. It is important for African Americans to go/ learn to/about Africa, because we need to understand more about where we came from than to not know at all or accept what is given to us. I wonder why they did not take the children to Egypt; maybe they didn’t have the funds, or the clearance or whatever, but I find it funny (for lack of a better word) how society –worldwide- tries to distance Egypt from Africa. When Egypt is shown on television, etc the individuals are usually fairer skinned when in Ancient Egypt (Kemet, which means “Black land”) the people had “Black” or dark skin.
So I just find it interesting that they did not take them to Egypt and let them see the pyramids, the statues, the ruins of the universities, libraries, and the history from which ALL civilization derived.
Also, I noticed how some of the teens went through the program and a few months down the line, their grades were still not where they should have been; and this has to be because of the condition of the homes that the teens came from and the teens own drive. Some realize that they have the ability to push themselves to accomplish their goals, but for others they need a strong backbone/ foundation to help them succeed. With that being said, regardless of how much intervention or behavior reconstruction/support (?) an individual has, if the concepts that they are taught away from home are not continued at home, it is easy to understand why they go back to the same things or do not continue to improve after the intervention (in most cases). To help solve the problems that African Americans experience it has to start at home. And home does not have to be limited to the address where you live, but in our communities, our religious centers, etc. We’ve always heard the saying “it takes a village to raise a child” yet we no longer do that and because of this our children and communities are falling through the cracks.
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