[Afrochic]

What Blacks need to do now

Teach your children to respect adults.

Teach your children the value of money.

Realize that you don't have to make white folks rich to look good. Spending hundreds of dollars for shoes is not impressive, but having AT LEAST one hundred dollars worth of books that you have read in your home is.

Teach your children to love what they see in the mirror and don't be brainwashed into believing the media's standards of beauty.

Wake up and realize that when you named your child Boomqueisha Sakajaweiah, she has to work that much harder.

Teach your children about the great accomplishments and contributions Blacks have made and are making.

Teach your children to have a voice and question issues or ideas. Just because the school books says what it says doesn't necessarily make it the law of the land, i.e. Christopher Columbus.

Education opens doors. Don't let the door close in your face because being smart is not "cool."