Are Educated, Black Professionals Getting Their Due?

i feel that black professionals should be creating their own small or large businesses. this way we have more control of how we want to be advertised. i'm working with a home based business that creates wealth for all races not only in the u.s. but abroad as well. we can only control advertising by creating our own businesses.

Slowly but surely the nation is changing and we are becoming a major voice in the mainstream media. More and more I see black news anchors on television and black movies with a positive message abound. The sad thing is news about black teen "thugs" having a big fight at some high school somewhere trails the story of the inauguration and news of black teens at a local movie theater-100s of them having a brawl in a parking lot is showcased in the middle of the good news of our first Black president. Negativity is always an attention-grabber but we don't need anymore sad stories about what black thugs are doing. They should highlight more positivity like the black students who ARE doing well in school..who ARE volunteering and making positive changes. "The Hoodie awards" created by Steve Harvey is the only award show that I know of that celebrates the efforts of everyday African Americans in our community and I don't even think it is televised nationally.

Black educators are an example of the homegrown notoriety spoken of earlier. However, what is missed is that this person has succeeded where others have failed. Instead of sharing the success by asking these people to help other schools with the same problems, it gets chalked up as an accident. The best judge of the capabilities of a teacher is to look at the change in student performance from year to year.