Sunday, August 7, 2011
Where are Young Black Men?
People always say don't be another statistic but if the media or everyone label us and portray us as a whole we might as well be another statistic. I am a African American male who is enrolled in college full time, go to cl everyday and have a 3.8 GPA, No kids, no baby mama drama, never been incarcerated and there are plenty of more yougg black men just like me. We still have to listen to the media everyday and hear about the statistics, lies by omission by omitting an important fact, deliberately leaving another person with a misconception. I am creating a blog that talks about the African American males who graduated college, finished school, taking care of their kids, doing right for the community and continuing to better themselves every day. I am speaking upon the everyday black male just like me. We cannot fall short anymore, someone has to stand up and speak upon this crisis of oppression and destruction to our community. If all we hear is negativity all the time and no positivity then that is going to have an effect on our people, especially younger kids who have no role models. Some of our own people are downing each other like the propagandas in the media want us too. We need more black males uplifted. Instead of talking about incarceration and dropouts all the time let’s talk about how us as black males can become doctors, lawyers, engineers, and philosophers or anything we want to be. We need more role models, thinkers, scientist, and people that really care. Only we can make a difference and the change is within ourselves. Some people say the sky is the limit but I say above the sky is infinite.
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