Is white better?

My nephew mentioned that he "wished that he was white" to his mother. When the discussion came up in a conversation, one of the responses was that "I feel sorry for the mother". My first question to the response of my nephew's thoughts/feeling(s) would be to analyze and ask him "why he feels this way"? And when I get the answer, analyze the response and work on it together as a family, through child and parents of course, :) A lot of people want to try and explain about the goodness of being black, when in fact, the whole reason why this question is asked, or reason why this feeling arose is due to lack of communion, faith, and success within the black community. We need more collective leaders that motivate and inspire success as a whole, instead of just individually. We need to gain personal confidence back so that we can better understand how to deal with others outside of ourselves. There are so many excuses running at a rapid pace today that we need to work hard at eliminating. I myself, come from mixed circumstances but never allowed myself to follow anyone except for God, myself, and close family and friends. I chose not to let stereotypes/personal opinions dictate and decide the man that I'm ultimately to become. "True Happiness" is what everyone in life wants, or at least a good portion of us, want out of life, but few rarely perform the necessary action(s) in order for this happiness to come true. My nephew is going to be a very successful and make an impact in this lifetime. But in order for that to happen, "We" as a community have to allow his opinion to count, even if we may not like it. There is nothing to feel sorry about because I'm certain that if blacks had more positivity, faith, and success in one another, then we wouldn't be having this conversation. White people tend to stick together and help one another reach and attain success "together" and not just "individually". Not all white people but a great portion do, and a great portion of blacks don't It hurts for this to be this way but if we don't come together and breed more successful, hardworking, and community driven people, then this will definitely go even further with the way "White" is considered as a way of life.

Change is necessary right now!

As a people, change is needed right now, with regards to killing one another. Because if we don't then we will eventually become extinct. That's a long shot but is definitely possible with all of the black on black crime that happens within our community. We are responsible for the change that happens within, not the world. God is too good to us for us to just give up on him/her now. Just stay the course with believing and the universe will definitely give us our just due. Positivity, love, peace, fellowship, are all keys to unlocking the blessings in which the universe spill out. We just have to tap into our true selves and keep the faith. I love you all and hope to be a voice that help to bring sunshine in your lives through the power of our heavenly father and his beautiful son, ;)

Love always,

Terron Hill

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All praises be unto God for his everlasting mercy. Having said that, this is the first entry for this year. I know it's been a while but life can sometimes become a bit challenging and busy. Aside from that, there has been a lot happening in the black community, and it's not good news as far as progress goes. We continue to feed the stereotypes and stigmas about African American people. Now that we have a black president, things seem to have gotten worse and I don't understand why. The "N" word is being used frequently, especially amongst each other. The one thing that makes it more challenging is when others use the word. It doesn't matter how the word is used because it still hurts any and everyone somehow. Many of us claim that the "N" word is just that, a word, yet still get angry when someone other than black use the word. Even if it's just for a little while, we need to eliminate the use of the "N" word amongst ourselves before we try to condemn others for using the word. We have to rise and succeed together as a people before we put expectations on things that we haven't even earned yet. We could at least try it for a month and see how different life is without the stereotype of the "N" word and who it applies to.

In love with one's own black skin

First off I want to give honor and praise to the almighty God and to my saviour Jesus Christ for waking me up and keeping me in my right mind to do what's right. Without him I am nothing. Moving on, I just want to say that we all need to learn how to love self and also how to take care of self and the rest will work out. A lot of us as a whole haven't truly embraced what we as an individual have to offer to the world because we are too busy meddling in other people's affairs. Getting to know one's self will definitely give a better understanding of how to eventually get to know others on the outside world. It starts with self and also ends with self. God judges us all individually and not by how many people are in your circle. Being black is a challenge by itself and shouldn't be further complicated by duplication. Being as original as possible goes a long way. Hard work and dedication is the key to success yet a lot of people tend to want to take the easy route and want the "right now" and forget about the future. Me personally, I'm in love with myself, my heritage, my skin, my color, my everything. I know no limits to what success has to offer but it gets overshadowed by the kind black people that generally don't care give enough about themselves, let alone, anyone else. We've come a long way but still have work to do. It's hard work but I believe in my soul that we will one day get the picture and turn it around and shine like the stars that we are. With that said, I'm signing off. I love you all with all my heart and soul. Until next time black people, peace, love, and plenty of soul.

Let's make the dream come true

As always, I give honor and praise to the almighty God that wakes me up and powers me in my everyday life. Having said that, I just want to say that it's been a while since I've updated this blog. And boy has a lot happened since then. Black people still continue to ignore the fact that the "N" word still has power and continue to haunt us as a whole. Many still believe that using the word in a different context changes the meaning and takes away from it but it just intensifies the ignorance of why it was created in the first place. We are looked at as a joke and not taken seriously because we tend to not take things as serious as we should. We have some that do take our issues very seriously I appreciate and commend them for doing so but that gets overshadowed by the ones that glorify the stereotypes that plague us. What would Dr. King think if he were alive today? Malcom X? Thurgood Marshall? JFK? I mean these are people that tried so hard to defend us and convince others that we are humans beings just like everyone else and that we deserve the same rights as everyone else. But what do we do, we continue to prove the critics right that we don't belong, even though we all don't act that way. All it takes is one to bring all of us down but we seem to not have grasped that yet. Once we get the big picture and come together, we will definitely make Dr. King proud. I strive everyday as a proud black man to make sure that I carry myself with the uptmost respect, high confidence, and all knowing that I'm a successful black man. That I'm an educated black man. That I am most importantly, a man. And that I am a servant of God that is doing all he can to make God smile. I pray constantly that we will get it together but I'm only one person. I wish the best for us and hope that I can be a part of the change that I know is truly possible. I love you all and will be back real in hopes of more progress. Just remember one thing in closing, black is beautiful.

Support one another

As always, I would like to thank my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ for making it possible for me to be able to do all things. Moving on to the subject at hand. Support, support, support. Why is it that the African American community don't support one another? The only way that it seems for support to come in the picture is when there is something in it for the individual person, in other words, personal gain. I love working with others and interacting, especially with my people, but only if they act like they have manners and humility. The urban community has been suffering for many years simply because of acceptance. How can you accept mediocrity, failure, poverty, low self-esteem, etc? We need to stick together, come together and take care of one other. We could accomplish a lot by working together and not stand by and let our communities suffer and others prosper and flourish. We need help people, RIGHT NOW! Not yesterday but RIGHT NOW! Once we finally get rid of the ni$$er mentality and believe that we can then we will and will all be just fine. Well, this will be a short one but hopefully helpful. Thanks again and God bless everyone.


-Terron-

When will we realize the dream?

First off, I give all glory and praise to my father in heaven and also, my Lord and saviour, Jesus Christ. With that said, I would like to ask the reason why we still celebrate the dream of Dr. King? No offense, I definitely believe in his dream, as well as many others, but what about the rest that don't believe in his dream? This is a man that fought long and hard to help us get what little bit of freedom that we have today. This is a man that endured a lot of hardship, struggle, pain, and many others just so we can enjoy the same luxuries that we do today. This same man lost his life for something that he believed in and not because he was in the wrong neighborhood, or wearing the wrong color-clothing. Today's young man hasn't even gone through a fraction of what Dr. King or the rest of our ancestors went through but act as though the world owes them something. I know for me, I've never seen anyone get lynched. I've never seen anyone hosed down. I've never seen any race only based businesses. I've never been turned away from school just because of the color of my skin. I've enjoyed all the luxuries of freedom courtesy of Dr. King, Malcom X, Rosa Parks, Emmett Tillman, and many others that put their life on the line just so I can have a better life. Now I know that racism and prejudice is still alive and well, but not so visible that it interferes with me and my family. I'm still in a daze at the fact that we have a black president. We definitely shouldn't have any excuses whatsoever now. Despite how light he is, or how to some, not black enough, he's still black. Now tell me that God isn't a good God. We need to stop making excuses about him not being this or that and just accept that he is just like one of us.Take resposibility for our own actions and get ourselves together we will be alright. We can finally say that we have an African American President, a black president, but we can't say that we have a ni$$er president. He at least gives us a clean slate. So with that said, are we going to back him up and help with what he's started? The ball is in our court. So what are we going to do about it? I love you all from the depths of my soul and look forward to hearing from you hopefully soon.

Terron