Lost on the Road to Jena--with some Ques.

[Little32]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

It's funny seeing my type of wordiness in someone else's writing.

Well, there's stuff going on all over the place but a lot of people need to see rallies to think that the community is protesting and change is going to happen. I would rather not see rallies and public protests because those aren't indicative of large scale and longterm change. The Jim Crow and Civil Rights Eras were times of more overt inequalities. There are now more institutional and covert inequalities that require less overt methods. If we can maintain conciousness and activity without needing the public spectacle, we will be able to reach the community through education and so forth. We need to continue to challenge one another to do better without feeling that such a challenge is an insult to our community.

I'm not talking about the Bill Cosby speech type of challenge. I'm talking about a similar in-your-face approach that doesn't need the cameras and that pressures us to continue combating inequality through information and action rather than complaints.

And I agree with much of what you have said here, but a lot of what I have seen with this next generation (and here I mean college students in the past 5 years of so) is apathy. We can have all of the social action forums that we want, but if we are the only ones attending, we are preaching to the choir. The most recent classes of freshman (2006 and 2007) seem more social engaged, so that gives me hope.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by Little32

And I agree with much of what you have said here, but a lot of what I have seen with this next generation (and here I mean college students in the past 5 years of so) is apathy. We can have all of the social action forums that we want, but if we are the only ones attending, we are preaching to the choir. The most recent classes of freshman (2006 and 2007) seem more social engaged, so that gives me hope.

Instructors need to offer extra credit for all students to attend and write social action reports. NPHC chapters need to coordinate these events with other stuff they are doing. Interested members go to other NPHC events so why not social action forums? The options are endless and I'm way too "annoying" to leave black folk the hell alone about this. I just change my approach based on the particular needs of the group.