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jamal Abraham Principal Electrical Engineer at PSEG Nuclear Ms. Smallwood There is no question that the profile of the enemy of Black Americans have taken on a new look. Your point of black male against black male is accurate. Therefore, leaders cannot use the same strategy at this day in time. For the most part, black youth are hearing the same thing over and over again. Black youth needs to be shown and not talked at but talked to....Black youth see nothing creative in the actions of present leaders, thus, have become bored with the same old rhetoric. Dr. King was smart enough to use the approach of marches and sitins but that won't work today. What the youth needs today is a job and forgiveness for past crimes so employers will hire them. I have certainly benefited by the sacrifices of Dr. King and it is incumbent of all professionals that have benefited to reachout in some way of community outreach to do what they can to help youth find themselves. Monday, January 18th 2010 at 1:01PM

g smallwood I believe the marches, banners and signs in our neighborhoods would at least make a statement, a loud STOP! We are no longer enabling or welcoming or protecting the danger that our own "terrorists" force on the culture; that we will not continue to welcome and accept apathy. Right now, it's just "let it be." And YES I believe our young men need jobs, but that's even rhetorical. When the black men in my neighborhood didn't have jobs, they didn't begin killing each other or walking away from their families. No I am not suggesting the same old methodology. This is a message that we should have been shouting daily for the past 40 years, instead of using the same old "they are the enemy, we victim" stuff. Telling a young black man "or an old one", for that matter, that he's excused because he has no job, that he can continue to risk having children he does not intend to love, kill his brother or the woman in his life, sell drugs so he gets his life thrown away in prison or have s*x irresponsibly rendering himself sick and the people he lies to sick, is old rhetoric.I's providing crutches, reasons, excuses!!! No what I am suggesting is new; a new approach. It's not rhetoric. This is real; this is truth. Monday, January 18th 2010 at 2:42PM

Nazeelah Tippett Dr. King was a blessing to African Americans and the world during his time. That time is gone, in the past. Even so, he left a legacy and that legacy is endurance in spite of… I see this as the legacy that our ancient ancestors left us as well. Life is a journey. Each of us has a unique purpose why we are here and if each of us stepped into our roles we will begin an upward spiral so powerful it cannot be denied or blocked! That is how powerful we are as a people, the soul people. The current situation we find ourselves in as a nation is that the very ones we want to fight against are the same ones agendas which we follow. We fuel their economy. We attend their universities. We uphold their laws even when they go against our benefit. We accepted their religions. We want their money to the point that we have accepted as belief that we cannot live without it! This is their god and we serve it willingly. We cannot imagine life without it and this is just an illusion we have accepted as fact. We have evolved since the time of Dr. King’s reign and I dare we take his legacy and build upon it something new, something higher, something that will take us into concepts and ideas of how to live life more abundantly through self-love, self-respect, mutual respect amongst each other and more love for one another. The question is, “Where is the love?” We tend to turn away from the idea of love as if it was a disease but love for one another is what will save us from ourselves. It doesn’t matter what ‘they’ do it is what we are willing to rise up to. Their religions have given us nothing but a tool to condemn each other. Can we remove the golden calf from our altars and turn to our true heritage as powerful spiritual beings having an earthly experience? We are more than bodies waiting to return to the dust. This is what we have been taught, which embedded within our psyche the belief in the survival of the fittest. From this was born competition instead of cooperation. And we believe that a competitive environment is a good thang! Dr. King was an example of how each of us can stand up and be heard. We all have our truths but our truths have been buried under structures systems designed to keep the mind enslaved. We vacillate in our minds and our truths go unnoticed, untapped. Our truths are our power. Each of us have something to contribute to us raising up as a people but we must deny the okey dokes and look deep within our souls for our truths and walk in the light of our truth boldly! We must wake up from ignorance and fearful egoistical existence for it serve no one, including ourselves individually. Yeah, a new thing must happen, new ways of perceiving life, new ways of being in the world. And each of us is responsible for what we contribute to the whole. We must learn new things and how things work. We have come to believe that higher education is the answer to many of our problems but it is this very thing that causes us to limit ourselves in higher truths. Wake up Black American! I believe this is the message Dr. King would be delivering today if he still walked among us. Wake up and face our fears, embrace our true heritage as Soul People and begin the work of dismantling the idols from our altars (our minds), which we have allowed others to place there by default because we have not taken responsibility for our own truth. Peace and Blessings Namaste I Am Nazeelah Monday, January 18th 2010 at 5:23PM

ROBINSON IRMA UC, Davis class of 1992 g, here is my take on this matter... In the last century the Black community came together as a bloc vote and got into the Whitehouse the first Catholic president. Part of tis country feared the religious church that JFK attended...but the Americans were more afraid for tis country of Jim Crow and, believed it was time to end those nooses and the abuses of our public school system therefore we had to join together as a nation to end this SEPARATE IS EQUAL SYSTEM IN OUR COUNTRY... IN THIS CENTURY WE DID JUST THE COMPLETE OPPOSIT...WE JOINED AS A NTION TO GET A FIRST WHO SOME WERE AFRAID OF HIS RELIGIOUS CHURCH...WE VOTED HIM IN AND DECLARED TAHT ALL IW RIGHT IN AMERICA...NOW WE ARE RIGHT BACK TO SEPARATE IS EQUAL AND TOSE NOOSES AARE BACK IN FASION...OH, THE BLACK COMMUNITY ARE IN ACTION...THEY ARE BUSY POINTING FINGERS AND PLACING BLAME ON THE WHITE MAN... DR. ML KING'S WIFE SAID THE SAME THING AS OUR PRESIDENT'S WIFE SAID, 'I DON'T WANT MY HUSBAND OUT THERE IN FRONT SO THAY CAN KILL HIM.... NO DR. MLK DESERVES ORE THAT THIS WHEN WE BRING UP HIS NAME("I" am not smiling) Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM

ROBINSON IRMA UC, Davis class of 1992 NAzeelah, Nazeelah, Nazeelah, anyone who can say "I" am Nazeelah "had become...and always will be indestructiable(smile) VERY FEW PEOPLE CAN SAY, 'COME ON OBSTICLE, "I" AM READY TO OVER COME YOU" This is the person Dr. M.L. King was, and we should be.(smile) Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM

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