> What I was gettin'
>at was that being complacent
>,like so many of us
>are, will get us nowhere.

And I need to constantly remind myself to ACT, not to sit back and play victim or be the judge.

> I have
>seen so many of us
>get run over and it
>is as if we are
>still on the plantation.

Who allows us to get run over? We live a self-fulfilling prophecy, a cycle that says we have no control. I get so caught up in what other people are doing that I lose sight of what I am supposed to do to stay peaceful, sane, joyful...free? Even on the plantation there were some of us that escaped, risking lives and still some got free. After the so-called "Emancipation", some of us wanted to stay on the plantation rather than step out and make a life for themselves and their families.

This is our legacy and we need to step away from that to get the social/economic/politcal freedom so many of us dream about. But it has to start with self.

Thank You!


"Know thyself"

"Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you". So we may boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
-- Hebrews 13:5,6

"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path"
--Morpheus in "The Matrix"

"It's our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"- Dumbledore to Harry Potter "Chamber of Secrets"