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An Open Letter To The Black Conscious Community.

October 17, 2014 by  
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(ThyBlackMan.com) First allow me to thank you for your presence and willingness to read this letter. Thank you for your attempts to teach black America about our culture as well as your dedication to reproducing information from past scholars, teachers and historians. You have quite a way of rewording content and making it your own and for that, we are grateful. Nonetheless, we have many issues that need to be addressed today so that we as a people can shift from reading history to accepting our position in creating a future worth living to see.

For years we have listened to you in the break room, on the corner, on YouTube as well as numerous other platforms limiting the term “consciousness” to the black experiences and knowledge thereof. We have grown tired of your antics to make us believe that enlightenment is a process of learning knowledge outside of self. You have continuously given out false African history and traditions merely to further your agenda of procrastination.

We have paid close attention to you studying your books, attending your lectures and buying your DVDs and while we admire your commitment to your studies, we’ve also noticed the rate of high blood pressure, poverty and estrangement from family running high among members of the black conscious community. We hear you speaking about the importance ofblackthinkers-2014 family and community yet your actions seem to be unaligned with your speech.

We have grown tired of hearing about your back to Africa movement. A movement geared towards encouraging us to pack up, close shop and relocate to a place that few of you have actually visited. We’d like to note that the majority of black conscious folks haven’t been able to visit the Motherland due to finances. We are unable to follow you in this agenda, primarily because you’ve yet to discuss a plan of what’s to happen once we’re in Africa. 

We’ve heard your cries to leave the black church, white Jesus and the bible yet we can’t help but notice that within your community you quote elders such as Marcus Garvey, El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz and Dick Gregory just as much, if not more than devout Christians recite scriptures from the bible. We ask what good is your conscious community if members have joined and turned away from their beliefs, not because they felt you were right but because they were intellectually intimated by you? We wonder if your intimidation techniques are the reason your movement has been stagnant for 10+ years? Many followers yet few believers.

We have grown tired of hearing countless stories of how we built the pyramids. We are aware of the location of the pyramids, we acknowledge that they were built by our ancestors yet we can’t ignore the fact that even with this knowledge of empowerment, the black conscious community has failed to build a subdivision, school or doghouse for that matter. We have noticed that with this powerful wisdom of what our ancestors have done in past times, we as a people still lack architectural schools of higher education. We don’t understand your attempts to glorify our ancestors as one’s we should worship when our ancestors engaged in competing to be better than the generations that proceeded them. Why are we not competing with our ancestors?

We have grown tired of your constant pressure to study the people of Africa when we should be studying their lifestyle and behaviors. Your studies have yet to eliminate the rampant spread of HIV, AIDS, diabetes, high blood pressure, depression and suicide that is plaguing our communities. It’s hard to find time to ponder on when we were kings and queens when you have bigger problems such as getting the finances to purchase your prescriptions. 

And about this “kings and queens” thing, if every black person back on the continent was a ruler who exactly were their subjects? 

We have heard your pleas to join you in consuming knowledge and while the history of our ancestors does intrigue us, we are in a battle of our own here in 2014. Many of the black leaders you worship have integrated us into a school system which is now forcing us to drug our children under the guise of being autistic, having ADD or ADHD. We were integrated into a food industry that is now selling food products full of monsanto. 

We are at odds with the prison industrial complex which continues to incarcerate young black men and women disproportionately to other races. We are having to compete viciously with one another to attain well paying careers, homes in safer neighborhoods and reliable transportation. 

We can’t move forward at this pace. There will never be unity, history shows us that our ancestors too went to war with one another, Tribes have been fighting one another since the beginning of time. We

 can’t all move to Africa, many of us have ancestral roots in various places throughout the world. We all can’t afford to invest in your debates which destroys much more than it builds. 

We are asking you to join us at the table to deal with the problems WE are facing today. How do we fight and strive for reparations for our ancestors when we, ourselves are pinned to the ground by our opponent? 

Let’s stop it with the attempt to run away from the issues, let’s stop pretending that merely reading and reciting information can make the problem go away, let’s stop pretending that getting all the people on one page at the same time is possible. Let’s deal with whats in front of us, and work with those who are available.

 Let’s change the focus of the black conscious community and let our first order of business be learning thyself. Knowing what our personal purpose, strengths, gifts and talents are. Rather than investing so much time into getting the community on one accord, let’s focus on fulfilling our personal duty within the community. If you are stepping up as a teacher, teach insight that empowers our people rather tearing them down. Personal responsibility is the order of the day! By doing your part, you create a space for others to join in and do the same. It’s something about seeing a person in action, seeing a person making a change that makes you want to get your affairs in order.

The days of black leaders have passed! We need no more leaders, we need responsible, devoted, self invested folk to step forward and fulfill their personal duties.

We need classes on agriculture and farming. We need classes on architecture and engineering. We need no more debates, we need spaces that uplift family and reconnect us to our spiritual selves. You’ve been studying 10+ years, here’s your chance to show us what our ancestors were able to do by doing it. Remember seeing is still believing.

Signed,
We The People for Empowerment

Staff Writer; Dina Deon
 
Official website; http://www.DinaDeon.com
 
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21 Responses to “An Open Letter To The Black Conscious Community.”
  1. Great Heights says:

    I agree with this article very informative. Lets “Lend a hand and not a bullet”.

  2. Great Heights says:

    Great website. I think the light within the Black Man needs to shine more. We need to lend a hand and not a bullet. Education of s

  3. Strange says:

    This conscious community is a joke, people keep calling them ‘conscious’ and saying they ‘waking up’ the black community but in reality they are doing absolutely nothing. If they were so conscious they would have changed they name by now and would have actually become black leaders. When I say leaders I don’t mean preacher which is what 95% of the ‘conscious’ leaders are, no other race has preachers MLK, Farrakhan, or ‘Nations’ of religious groups leading nothing, this is why we ain’t going nowhere, our conscious people are YouTube preachers talking hotair and not even speaking on the reality of life and how to obtain power. Even Muslim nations with Imams and religious authority, have economists, international relations experts, political scientists, psychologists and sociologists and others who expertize in different areas of society and understanding power relations who cooperate with religious leaders and many times religious leaders are a disguise for people who are well versed in controlling society and wielding socioeconomic and sociopolitical power.

    This conscious community is full of psuedo-Abrahamic religions, wannabe Kemites and consistent bickering over non-relevant things. Clearly no better than ordinary church goers, or thugs on the streets, can’t organize to save they lives and aren’t constructive at all. Most of these groups are willing to argue over European, Middle Eastern and North/East African history but won’t ever speak on the actual area we are from West Africa, talk about lost. They have yet to develop strategies for power, show proven examples of community building and none have created nationwide institutions to improve not one asset of black life in this country, they only boast about a lecture circuit, they are really the new church, unproductive, time consuming as well as money grubbing. SMH.

    This new generation seems to be the worst, where are the people building on Amos Wilson’s work, he already laid down a blueprint for black power teling people, directing people on how to gain power, only see Jason Black consistently pointing out that all talk of Kemet, Black woman is God, We we kings and queens, is not gonna save you or build nothing. Where is the people picking up on Harold Cruse who successfully argued in the 60’s integration would destroy black power and economic development, even with all this consciousness our businesses and are money flow is getting more and more integrated into other races business plans and budgets to develop their own economy. Where is the young generation who understands and preached Bobby E Wright, that Afro Americans need to define who we are, reduce race mixing ‘blacken the race’, so we develop around a physical and cultural identity, nowhere, just as lost in all areas of the Old World claiming all Abrahamic religious are our, still believe in Christianity at some 80%, not even people from the third world have held onto European beliefs as strong as us. Where are the young blacks who have taken heed from the failures of the 60’s and the 90’s, nowhere still marching when no other race does this, still letting liberals leads us to nothingness, still going to Washington DC despite the fact the city is kicking out black people, ironic isn’t it. Where are the people developing on John Henry Clarke and Chancellor Williams and creating actual communities, not lectures, based on African concepts of reality, developing the African ideologies and fitting them into a European technological run world, many other groups can take notes from their ancestors and still thrive, look at Japan, China, Singapore, Saudi Arabia. Africans have many resources but where is the curbing of phony individualism and oversexualisationin the black community, that they have been promising, nowhere and by the looks of worldstarhiphop,instagram and the like it is getting worse. Faliure runs amock, where are the people doing battle with whites to control our childrens minds, other communities, Jews, Koreans, Arabs, even Mexicans now are grabbing their children and teaching them vital skills to gain power and continue their lifestyle, ideologies, cultures and are actually weakening white Americas grip over them, look at the Mexican issue in the Southwest how they are fearing many are refusing now to integrate, and we are still beefing on YouTube and Facebook, claiming we are conscious meanwhile gentrifiers are taking over Harlem, Venice Oakwood, reinvesting in Detroit as black people become homeless.

    All it takes is a few to prove to the rest and everyone will follow, clearly they are following this failed conscious community and white loving celebrities in self destruction. Zionism was started by a select few, the education system was started by a select few industrialists and corporatist, initial opposition from the masses soothed as the middle class developed. White colonialism was started by small armies and navies, religious preachers and then the masses followed once they realized success could be made. Originally a small amount of individuals focused on capitalism in China and now look they have a 250 million string middle class. Proof is in the pudding so to speak, it seems very tiny amounts of blacks are doing anything, if they were it would gradually infiltrate the youth who would see with their own eyes a root to success as an independent people.

  4. Leonard Simpson says:

    I’m not going to state an opinion as to where I might try to sound more intelligent than the next person so I’ll just ask one critical question… Following the advice givin by such intelligent minds, where do you see the Afrikan Americans situation 500 to 1000 yrs from now if we’re still under the colonial rule of white America

  5. Steve says:

    Excellent critique of a movement that has such deep roots, and a place, in our struggle. I especially love the part about us all being “kings and queens”. I too have always struggled with the veracity of that statement. I understand its intention, but if we’re looking to be a people of truth then we have to stop with the repetitive self-adulations and cultural platitudes when, in the midst of our today they are meaningless.
    Again, kudos for such a well rounded, well thought out and powerful analysis.

  6. Banks says:

    I consume a lot of articles online throughout the week, and rarely respond, partly due to the content of the article failing to engender one. This, however, was one of the most enlightening articles I’ve read in a long time.

    As one who often times gets wrangled in by the harangues of “conscious leaders”, and others in the ‘conscious’ community, as well intentioned as they are, it is encouraging to see someone acknowledge the value of their (the conscious leaders/community) message and intent (empowering the black community), but who is not afraid to call them (the leaders and the community at large, myself included) out on their lack of action-oriented movements/measures.

    Thank you Dina for taking the time to pen this. In doing so, it has compelled me to examine myself, and my own lack of action oriented competency, in my pursuit of raising consciousness, taking action, and producing results in my own life and respective vocation, that’ll in turn inspire the black community at large to be who and what they’re capable of: being great.

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  8. Jasmine Sims says:

    Consciousness at the core goes deeper than earthly issues.

  9. Dina Deon says:

    Brothers, the article nor my comments were to say there was only one way nor was it intended to say some members of the conscious community aren’t doing anything productive. I know many who are doing their thing within the community, they are playing their role and getting it done. Still we can’t deny that the ‘majority’ of the conscious community is stagnant. Many are making a living off of people who are searching for truth and a better way of living. We can’t deny that with the amount of educated, proud conscious black folk we should be progressing collectively at a much faster rate. If knowledge is power, we should be controlling the world because knowledge is the conscious community strong suit. In actuality its action backed by knowledge that is power.

    My article is a voice for the many people I meet in and around the communities especially here in Atlanta who are highly concerned about healthcare & food. How does one gain employment when they’re ill? When they’re malnourished? Unemployment is a big issue in this community and I stand by saying a major part of it is because we continue going after the same type of jobs, we refuse to step out of our comfort zone, we refuse to be creative and invent jobs rather than competing to get them. Where are our business development programs? With the unemployment rate as high as it is, why are we in 2014 still drilling in our youths head to “go to school and get a good job”? Never go to school, get what you need and build a corporation. We continue to follow the leader. We have Hispanics crossing the borders illegally making a way for themselves, you have Africans coming over setting up their businesses and thriving, so many are coming to the US and finding success. Why not us? Is it because many come over and create jobs for themselves and their people? Why are teens on Youtube becoming millionaires in their parents basement while we’re still slumped over crying about unemployment?

    I’m done allowing blacks to throw their pity party! NO! If our ancestors were able to create Black Wall Street & the likes then we should be able to do even greater with all the resources available today.

    Any project/movement/book genuinely geared towards progression will be seen or heard about by the impact it causes… PERIOD! When you build it they will come! And they will talk and it will grow far beyond your measure. Seeing is believing! Helping is achieving.

    Again best wishes in your endeavors

  10. James Davis says:

    To Dina Deon:

    We are in difficult times and its good to see that you are out front working on the front lines in “a specific way.” If you are working on the front lines, why is so hard for you to believe that others are also out there doing the same thing. There are many persons striving for high ideas when it comes to seeking solutions to our dire situation; please do not be so dismissive of their efforts. It was the past efforts of others which got us to our current platform. We must not deride those who were instrumental in doing that.

    The black unemployment situation is real! To minimize it by saying blacks are not doing enough to find jobs is disingenuous. The future plight of this economy is likely to worsen over the next 6 months putting even more pressure on black job seekers and black families. Thank you for enlightening me in regard to your efforts.

    We are children of the universe just like everyone else and WE HAVE A RIGHT TO BE HERE! God’s speed to you and yours.

  11. @ Sister Dina

    I’m not going to go back and forth, so this will be my last comment on this subject. As I said in my last comment, I don’t disagree with some of the things you said, but to say the conscious community is only talking and debating is totally wrong. Just like the great work you’re doing, there are conscious Brothers and Sisters doing the same thing.

    I’d like to consider myself in this active movement, although I’m just getting started. My major disagreement with you is how you lump the conscious community together as if all they’re doing is talking. As far as history, if it wasn’t for the conscious community, we wouldn’t have gotten as far as we have today.

    There has been a lack of true leadership in our community, but as you’ve said and done, people are starting and creating opportunities all across the country. My goal is to support them in order to nationalize the most successful programs, using the money we’re already spending. But I’m just getting started with the company in getting the word out. Based on what you said you’re doing, I wish you continued success.

    Black Unity is the solution, 3ufirst.com is the plan

  12. hoodgirl says:

    Dina Deon,

    You are truly a breath of fresh air. Best wishes with all your endeavors in God’s speed.

  13. Dina Deon says:

    James Davis I can’t remember a time that wasn’t “too serious” to talk generalities. In my eyes its not a “solution” until its tried, tested and results are in. Then you can move forward by saying here’s what we did, here’s how we did it and here’s what happened: solution! Wonderful ideas…

    “Plan” such an endeavor? Our community garden with 4 people who were willing not only finance it but work it. It took about 6 months to start reaping the first year… Since then multiple community gardens have started around the city. Many jobs came available as we were able to market fruit, veggies and herbs. More jobs opened as other communities, nonprofit groups and the likes requested someone come in to teach their group. Even more opportunities came available as individuals started to make holistic products from the herbs and marketing them for hair, skin, health, etc and teaching others to do the same. How long? Less than the time it takes one to get a bachelors degree. Meanwhile one thing we didn’t have to worry about was good, wholesome, nutritious food.

    I’m apart of a healing temple that started in a local park and grew into a school geared towards teaching members of the community how to heal themselves from the earth… like our ancestors who we often read about yet rarely follow. Teaching mothers how to calm their over anxious child so they can focus without meds, how to naturally treat illnesses such as colds, high blood pressure and diabetes. We also teach how to make a living off of their gifts, talents and skills because we’re in a time where you can make a living being self-employed.

    Then came Project FLEE, a youth movement I started solo and financed initially yet continues to grow beyond of my vision as the community steps up to add their suggestions as well as take their rightful positions with our youth. Perhaps one day it’ll be a nationwide movement, our focus right now is on the youth involved. Utilizing every second we’re with them to build them self esteem, awareness, confidence and ensure they have some direction on what they want to see in life.

    The unemployment rate has many factors. Those who are unemployed due to laziness, those who just don’t have a need to work, those coming out of high school/college, those coming out of prison and those who have businesses yet don’t file taxes. Many of us lack unemployment not because we’re black but because we lack the skills employers are looking for. Where are our designers, artists, holistic healers, nutritionist, financial advisors, scientist, engineers? We lack diversity when it comes to employment, that keeps the unemployment rate high.

    As I said “Personal responsibility is the order of the day! By doing your part, you create a space for others to join in and do the same. It’s something about seeing a person in action, seeing a person making a change that makes you want to get your affairs in order”. I’m about putting myself into projects and doing what comes naturally to me: helping others.

    Start small, take it all 🙂 Best wishes with your endeavors

  14. James Davis says:

    To Dina Deon:

    These Times We Are In Are Too Serious For Blacks To Talk In Generalities and Get Away With It As Representing Solutions.

    Blacks have thus far endured six continuous years of their unemployment numbers being in double-digits. Come January, 2015 we will be entering our seventh year. This is a time for serious discourse. I do not make any apologies for advocating my book ( http://www.thefixthistime.com ) and Mr. Amen should not make any apologies for offering his solution because both approaches represent “specific and detailed approaches to resolving the most horrific challenge of the black community since “the Great Depression.” This is what we need! We need to ratchet our conversation up a notch or two when it comes to the current black economic experience because we are in dire straits. Challenge the soulutions we recommend if you desire but don’t dismiss them! You talk about seeking solutions yet you reject and dismiss the opportunity to critique one.

    However, you suggest as a solution in you own words:

    “James Davis interesting how you took one piece and turned it into a spill about education, the downside is that the statement is in line with “sustainable living” hence agriculture, farming & architecture. All which are apart of economic empowerment which you claim must come first.”

    This plan of yours involving agriculture, farming & architecture, where would you plan such an endeavor? Who is going to finance it? Who is going to be involved? How long will it take, studying agriculture, farming & architecture before we see results when it comes to our double-digit unemployment numbers? Look, this is not a put down, as we are having the very debate you suggested should be taking place. Remember these words?

    “We need no more debates, we need spaces that uplift family and reconnect us to our spiritual selves.”

    I suggest to you not only do “we need spaces that uplift family” and serious debates of “real solutions,” but we need take to task those who minimize or completely ignore the depreciating state of the black family due to these horrible unemployment rates by representing generalities as solutions. Wouldn’t you agree?

  15. Dina Deon says:

    Terrance Amen, I had a chance to check out the “solution” or plan as you called it. I do overstand the objective. I think a huge part of our stagnation comes from the thought form that there is only one way to get a goal accomplished.

    I respect my others of my race by not attempting to play on their intelligence, not wasting their time, not force feeding information and being a resource rather than the ‘end all’. It’s wonderful learning about black history impacted your life for the better and from there you moved into action. It’s more than just calling them brother and sister, not every brown face believes in truth, justice or harmony. I don’t throw terms such as brother/sister their way nonetheless I can share space with them, be in harmony with them and assist in a way that benefits us both. That’s my way of showing respect, again there is no one way to do anything.

    I too wrote a few books, started a few businesses, then went further to create an organization built to empower youth and assist in their personal & spiritual development. That’s easy though, making a impact in the lives of others… that’s the beauty of all this.

    At which point was I talking down on anyone? Who said disregard our history? Let me clarify… I feel if one is teaching about past kings and queens, it would be most beneficial to do so in a personal or leadership development class. If one is speaking on our ancestors building the pyramids it would be most beneficial to actually build something such as a bird house during the session. I’m all about mixing learning with action. If you’re teaching about how our ancestors lived, then teach about the herbs they used as medicine, teach about how they grew their food and then actually plant an herb/veggie/fruit so the people leave with something more than knowledge.

    Not all of our “great” leaders had the gift of vision and foresight! We have a habit of putting our deceased ancestors on a pedestal while treating those still among us like thrash. Many of those leaders had no clue what was to come present day or a vision that allowed them to see how their goals, such as integrating into the school system, would impact future generations. I’m a truth seeker! My admiration and respect for another will never estrange me from my truth. I can respect you, while telling you that what you are saying or doing isn’t the most beneficial thing. That’s not disrespectful. Disrespectful is seeing a person mislead others and remaining silent.

    Many don’t go to church because they don’t want a good song and dance “its going get better/God is going to do it” sermons, they want to know when & how. Many don’t get down with the conscious community for that same reasons!

    Best wishes with your org!! Again taking on your personal responsibility within the community, holding yourself accountable for what you do and don’t do… that is the order of the day!

  16. Dina Deon says:

    James Davis interesting how you took one piece and turned it into a spill about education, the downside is that the statement is in line with “sustainable living” hence agriculture, farming & architecture. All which are apart of economic empowerment which you claim must come first. Why is it that before ‘action’ can take place one has to read this book such and such wrote, then read that book, join this movement and before you know it 5 years has passed and nothing aside from reading has been accomplished. Thank you very much James Davis, thank you for misconstruing a statement not to add to the conversation but for an opportunity to push your book. So black “consciously” typical.

  17. I went from a mindset of a wanabe athlete to wanabe drug dealer. But after receiving the knowledge of self, Black history before we came to America, I changed and became a more respectful person with high morals and values. I respect my Sisters by not making them a whore, but a wife. I respect my Brothers by not calling them the N-word, but by calling them my Brother.

    I don’t just talk about it, I am about it. I wrote a book that gives the solutions to our problems. Now I went further and created a company, based on that book to be the catalyst to solving our problems. I don’t disagree with everything you said, but to talk down to people who are trying to make a positive change the best way they can and disregard our past history as if it’s not important, is disrespectful.

    Your writing seems very mixed up in parts. People respect and admire our great leaders of the past because they didn’t just talk, they practiced what they preached, unlike some of the churches today.
    This is just one of the many reasons people don’t go to church and definitely not to the ones with a white Jesus.

    No, everybody can’t be Kings, Queens, and leaders, but to say you shouldn’t aspire to be the best they can be, even if they don’t reach that potential, is not helping our community. I challenge you and the people who agree with you to check out 3ufirst.com and see if it’s not a company you can get behind and support, based on its merits and the changes you claim you want to see.

    Black Unity is the solution, 3ufirst.com is the plan.

  18. James Davis says:

    Your Words Have A False Ring To Them But Yet I Sense A Real Search For Truth. Can I Lend Some Understanding?

    Here is what you propose as the “fix” after somewhat dismissing casually our history and struggles of the past where many blacks lost their lives to reach this point in our journey to complete freedom;

    “We need classes on agriculture and farming. We need classes on architecture and engineering. We need no more debates, we need spaces that uplift family and reconnect us to our spiritual selves. You’ve been studying 10+ years, here’s your chance to show us what our ancestors were able to do by doing it.”

    While economic parity is the ultimate goal shared by almost every black person in America, economic empowerment must come first. There are many within and outside the black community who believe economic empowerment can only be obtained through education, as you apparently believe also. You see, the educational approach is and has been favored by many well placed (those who are favored by whites and placed in positions of authority) and well heeled blacks (affluent blacks – those who have some money) of past generations. Without question after the upheaval of the 1960’s and 1970’s which you seen to dismiss as being insignificant, the educational approach was a favorite and logical course to advocate, as it took the best and brightest of the Baby Boom generation and placed them in organized learning centers.

    It was the Baby Boom generation of young blacks that the federal government was concerned about during the 1960’s and 1970’s because they were the largest number of blacks at that time ever born in the history of this country. As a matter of fact, the black population between 1940 and 1970 almost doubled! This passive approach was understandably popular during that period of great racial upheaval and disturbance within our country. It took young blacks off the streets. It additionally put the onerous on their backs when it came to academic achievement. All the federal government had to do was to make scholarships and financing to higher education centers available and the government did that.

    Today, with the benefit of hindsight we can now conclude after fifty years of observation, that education was and is not the total answer. There is no question however, that there are some blacks who are doing quite well due to obtaining an education, especially those with advance degrees, such as doctors, some lawyers, professors, and those with specialty degrees, such as engineers.

    There are also sports athletes and entertainers who used the route of educational opportunity who also have done quite well for themselves monetarily. Nevertheless, “it is an unquestionable fact” the black race as a whole is no closer to achieving economic empowerment and parity with the majority population than they were fifty years ago! Black people know what they want to achieve, which is to be unencumbered by the majority population in achieving parity in income, and business creation. If blacks were able to create businesses at or even near the same rate as whites and have those businesses enjoy the same success, this would go along way in resolving the issue of income disparity.

    If you are really serious about changing our prospects for future achievement, consider visiting http://www.Jobcreationnow.com Join the struggle! Enlighten yourself. You are not the only one who wants to see change. Buy the book, “The Fix This Time!”

  19. jdgwisd says:

    I can hear the BTAM apologists screaming from here!!!!! Great article.

  20. hoodgirl says:

    Such a breathtaking Article! Count me in.

  21. JIMMIE CALDWELL says:

    im on it…

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