Pride has to be taught. Young people, and that includes generations have not been given enough information about accomplishments to gain any kind of pride. Since Martin Luther King Jr., who of significance has been held up as someone to be proud of?
...Unless one is an NBA fan, one will not hear of anyone to admire unless it is 50 Cent or Lil Wayne. People want to know why the youth of today admire people who use fowl language, disrespect women, and go around looking like slaves who have outgrown their clothes. Where will they hear about the astronauts... What about the politicians who make the laws and which ones did they author?....
What do they know of outstanding people of the past and what they did? Not only the youth but how many people know that people who have been identified as Black were in what is called America 100,000 years ago and where these artifacts were found? Many people don't want to think about the past because all they know is Slavery. How many know that all Black people who came here were not slaves? The stories of black towns all over the United States is something to be proud of. They were from California to Pennsylvania to Florida....
Just think about this; what did we expect to happen after integration? What did we expect so called white teachers to begin to teach our children about themselves? The teachers were taught from the same books you were taught. If you didn't have the information to tell your children, where were they going to get the information?
...There are many reasons for which to be proud, but he is the one responsible for creating the environment for the young people to know about feats of our ancestors. We are also the ones responsible for making a contribution to society for which they can be proud....
Posted By: Thomasena Martin-Johnson
Sunday, December 9th 2012 at 8:07PM
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