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Originally posted by miss priss
I look at my surroundings and ask myself am I making the difference? Has these orgs. empowered me to want to make one(a difference)? Do I feel important to them? Are they impacting me? Do I have take ownership by what they (the D-9) have given me? These are all personal accountability questions. Can the D-9 implement a desire for the AA community to be (socially) accountable?
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These are some good questions.
And I also agree with a lot of what you said in your post. It just saddens me the message that I'm getting, and perhaps I'm misinterpreting what's being said; you tell me if I have it right or wrong.
The assumption (I realize that it's an assumption and perhaps not everyone's) is that we are stuck up snobs who only do good to get noticed by the media. We do a little service here and there but we are neither social nor political activists. It is our responsibilty to inspire civic duty with the rest of the African-American community. Do I have this assumption correct? If I do, that saddens me, for real. All the work all 9 of these orgs have done over the years has gone completely and totally unnoticed.
I have a question for the GDI's (or whoever, really). Do you think that the work that is done must be done by the organization as a WHOLE or by it's members? Because it seems as if all of the questions (though they may be rhetorical) are addressed to the D9 and not individual members of those organizations. What does the D9 do or what has the D9 done? Because if I get drunk and act a fool, then I represent Alpha Kappa Alpha. But when I go to Ethiopia to study famine and drought and come back and work on trying to get to the root of that problem and solve it, I represent Monique. Is this what people think? If ONE member is a social and/or political activist, does it reflect on that person's organization? What about chapters? Does it make a difference if there is a chapter that is boycotting something? Or a chapter is having a voters registration drive? Of if chapter members are writing their senators and representatives to lobby for one cause or another? Does that make a difference? What if the senator or representative IS a member of an org; does that make a difference? Or are we only seen as a collective, and all the good that we do has to be done as a group. Because if that is how we are seen, then we have already failed (in the eyes of our communities, and will continue to do so). Am I making sense?