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