Culture of Freedom pt.3

Today I want to talk about one of the most important inflictions affecting Blacks today. The Freedom of Speech. Ideally what this means in our Constitution, and yes it is our Constitution, is that any man or woman has the right to say what they feel with out fear of prosecution or persecution. But before we can utilize this fundamental right we first must attain a command of the English Language. There is nothing worse than turning on the Television and seeing a black person speaking who makes no sense at all. a la Jesse Jackson, sorry just had to do that. But seriously we must learn to use the language to it's fullest. One of the ploys that I believe is used repeatedly by the media is to find the one black person in the crowd who can not intelligently communicate their feelings or what they have seen. What this does is send the message that this is how the majority of us as blacks communicate. This also goes on to give a false impression of the levels of education that we have achieved. I believe that part of the reason that the rest of the world thinks so lowly of us as a people is because of the negative images that our media continues to project of us.

We must enforce the importance of education into our children. We must make it our business to see to it that they get the best education available to them. We have to speak up and stop the schools and educators from placing our children in special needs classes and labeling them. We need to be the voice for our young people. Also we as adults need to reinforce our command of the language and use the only tool that many of us have, our voices. Until we start to do this we will always be represented by the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharptons of the world.

In order for any change to occur we must start to speak up for ourselves. Right now we as blacks act as if we are infants, the only time we want to speak up is when we are upset. Our voice needs to be heard. We also need to show the rest of the world that we are not child neglecting raging egomaniacs. But in fact we are a loving caring and giving people. We need to stop acting like the animals that the slave master has created and start being the Gods we were destined to be.