I agree - too many of us have become comfortable even many of us that are members XYZ organization - we don't volunteer, give back to the community or want to support causes with our dollars and time - - - I say AA need to mobilize to help their own. We need to be a determining factor in politics, education and economic development.
For starters we need to vote - - -
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Originally posted by SummerChild
Encouraging middle class Black people to go back into our communities and spend some time volunteering and working with those who have not "made it." According to Henry Louis Gates, who just published a new book on this subject by the way, we now have *two* nations in Black America - the middle class and the lower-class. We have got to begin to think of our race collectively once again. Instead of each person who has "arrived" turning his back and pretending that the ills that are in our community do not exist.
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