There are so many people to thank for getting us where we are today. People who were dead when or shortly after we were born, like Harriet Tubman. There were many aunts and uncles who offered good advice. Sometimes even a neighbor. We have a lot to be thankful for, just being in this country. But we as the seniors need to try and influence every young life that we can. They don't have a clue as to what went on in the past. So many are wrapped up with earphones, on the computers and playing games that will get them no where or on the corners drinking, smoking or using drugs. They watch so many of the demonic videos and think that's what's happening, instead of having their heads in books. Knowlege is power and they need to try and get all they can. If you know something, you can fit in almost anywhere. If you are illterate you, feel like you only belong with the low life. Our youth are smart and we need to encourage them to use their brains for better things. Parents, stop drinking, smoking and using your drugs around your children. Give them a chance to be somebody. Show love and affection toward them. Don't knock them down and call them names except their birth names. Don't humiliate them. Tell them that theiy are smart and can be whatever they want to be in life. Tell them to use the computer, take extra online classes, learn another lanuguage. If they need help in school, they can get help on the computer. We have this technology, teach them how to use it to their advantage. Most of all keep them in prayer and aske God to keep them under his wing. We can have another Black President one day.
THANKS TO CHUCK WILSON FOR COMMEMORATING ROSA PARKS WITH THIS SONG YESTERDAY!! Chuck it took much of the day but we finally found two solutions. It did need converting to mp3 format to play here, and it was actually easier to create a video so viewers could listen to it in place on the page. Hope these both are ok.
"... somebody needs to do something.... I am that somebody."
Wow - that is a MUCH needed Mantra for our generation if I ever heard one, Eugenia. So many of us have 'tons' of insight, wisdom, and abilities to enrich younger souls with in some ways or others which we have "retired" along with our work careers. Til they breathe their last, a doctor is always a doctor with lifesaving and health-helping skills to give, and give back. Likewise a lawyer, doorman, teacher, seamstress, coach, cook, tailor, salesperson, artist, maid, writer, chauffeur, and too many more to list. One of the constant joys that replay in my memory are listening to stories told by a young man during something like "story hour" at the Dunbar Branch library on Thomas Avenue in the 50's. Then several of our teachers in school could often be counted on to divert briefly from their class subject and give us jewels and nuggets from personal and public lessons learned in our Black History. Parents and grandparents also were rich sources of wisdom gained from our historical travails and triumphs. Maybe many of us can now afford to retire financially. (Not me.) But can we EVER afford to retire from being "that somebody" who informs, enriches, and warns our youth, and in doing so help enable some successes in their lives, which could very well bless our lives too since they are our life-neighbors and fellow citizens? This includes even those in their 40's and 50's whom God has given us influence with, who are still trying to find their way. Thanks for stirring and spurring us with those words of insight: "I am that somebody"!
I look at our African American youth as they pile onto the bus and go straight to the back. So much of our history is lost to them. Maybe one day someone will take the time to teach them, it might just be me! I remember one day I looked and said "somebody needs to do something." It was at that moment that I realized that I am that somebody.
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Wow - that is a MUCH needed Mantra for our generation if I ever heard one, Eugenia. So many of us have 'tons' of insight, wisdom, and abilities to enrich younger souls with in some ways or others which we have "retired" along with our work careers. Til they breathe their last, a doctor is always a doctor with lifesaving and health-helping skills to give, and give back. Likewise a lawyer, doorman, teacher, seamstress, coach, cook, tailor, salesperson, artist, maid, writer, chauffeur, and too many more to list.
One of the constant joys that replay in my memory are listening to stories told by a young man during something like "story hour" at the Dunbar Branch library on Thomas Avenue in the 50's. Then several of our teachers in school could often be counted on to divert briefly from their class subject and give us jewels and nuggets from personal and public lessons learned in our Black History. Parents and grandparents also were rich sources of wisdom gained from our historical travails and triumphs.
Maybe many of us can now afford to retire financially. (Not me.) But can we EVER afford to retire from being "that somebody" who informs, enriches, and warns our youth, and in doing so help enable some successes in their lives, which could very well bless our lives too since they are our life-neighbors and fellow citizens? This includes even those in their 40's and 50's whom God has given us influence with, who are still trying to find their way.
Thanks for stirring and spurring us with those words of insight: "I am that somebody"!