What a Great Read!

The 'Critical' Thinker

I received a real blessing today and in most ways that I find blessings is through browsing. I happened to be reading the recently published portion of WordPress’s homepage and stumbled right smack dab into this fabulous article: “My Thoughts on Black in America” from what appears to be a rather distinguished blog, DarOnline.

One of the really great precepts about the article is how the writer identified each issue and addressed it and moved along. Another really refreshing notion is that I couldn’t tell the gender, age, education, or race of the person (well, up to the very end, that is) who wrote it.

The only difficulty I had with DarOline’s, “My Thoughts on Black in America” (and believe me, very hard to find indeed!) was in the notion of, “…but if no one helps…” and I would debate the improvement of black statistics. However, my only criticism is that DarOline is spot on, 100 percent in touch of reality and quite openly, a great critical thinking mind. 

I have meant for this to be an enjoyable read for whoever happens by…I know that my reader’s will really enjoy this gift!

“My Thoughts on Black in America”

I’m watching Reclaiming the Dream (or I think that is the name of what I am watching) on CNN-where they discuss black social issues-and while interesting, I’m not sure if I am a fan of this discussion. I like knowing there are educated black people discussing the hard issues going on in Black America, but now the hard issues in our community are being aired for everyone to hear, but what are we going to do about it? You can discuss the hard issues as much as you want, but if no one helps to solve the issues what is the point of talking about them? It would be different if this conversation was reaching the demography they were talking about, but if you’re poor can you afford to have the channels of CNN? If you’re uneducated can you keep up with an intellectual conversation taking place about your un-education? So, what is this conversation? This conversation is just another group of educated black people talking to the same educated black people who’ve done the same things in their community, and not leading to the improvement of black statistics. Yes, having an open rhetoric is the first step to voicing the problems going on in our community. Yes, it is a way ,theoretically, to improve the community, but if no one does anything we ,African Americans, will never take the step past being nothing more than statistics the wealthy discuss.  So, my point should be obvious by now, we need to stop talking about the issues, take the next step, and start changing them. July 23 -9:00 PM eastern-Black in America July 24 -9:00 PM eastern-Black in America

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