Black Leaders Want New Million Man March

[SummerChild]

Ok, Phasad, so what do you suggest? What would be your plan?
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Originally posted by Phasad1913
I just don't think this is the way to make any fundamental changes in black America.

I was watching the state of black america on cspan a few months ago and Jesse J. was there and when it was his turn to speak, he started saying a bunch of stuff about we need to march on such ans such a day and all that. No one said anything...not even a clap.

I just feel that the nature of the beast has not changed, but the way the venom is spewed has. Racism IS a major cause of the problems we face...STILL. I don't care what people say. Even if the problems are off-shoots of what happened years, decades, centuries ago, its still a huge cause. Having said that, I think that the WAY racism effects us and is perpetuated today is different from 40 years ago and marching may have been effective them based on what was going on then, but it does not have the same effect today. There is far much more money going around, more resources, more educated people, etc. etc. etc. We have to figure out what exactly needs to be done in our communities and lives and channel resources to combat the problems.

Marching won't be a ground breaking event. Its time now to actually make some changes. Bringing masses of black people into the educational fold and out of the prisons is one thing. Changing the image of ourselves that is projected to our kids day in and day out displaying a few people's idea of what is to be strived for in life is another. There is a lot that we have physical control over that we just need to buckle down and do, forget marching.