Comments on: Why Thy Election Makes Me Sad and Sick!

By: Felicia Adeoye

Felicia Adeoye — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:19:31 +0000

Scrolling to view the latest statuses on Facebook, a link to an article titled “Why Thy Election Makes Me Sad and Sick!’ was posted. I felt an impulse that nudged me to read it. I was drawn inward by the opening paragraph and was left inspired to share my many thoughts on the author’s concerns.

Usually the lack of excitement that we feel towards anything is based on our choice of having an unfavorable opinion of it based on the meaning we give it; and often we don’t ask why we think the way we do; and so we either use the same approach while skimming the surface of what really needs to be discussed.

If the external world is not to your liking, be the change yourself – complaining and asking someone other than you to change it is a waste of your good powerful energy. These politicians have their own agendas and lives to create, your dependence on them when you equally have the power to move mountains, but are simply too fearful and not ready to do the work on self to recognize it will keep you paralyzed with the same results.

Continue reading…..http://sacredvessel.us/post/34045516847/the-clutching-to-an-exhausted-paradigm

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:10:42 +0000

Exeellent comment Deeann D. Mathews!!!

By: Deeann D. Mathews

Deeann D. Mathews — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:53:44 +0000

Dr. Watkins, I totally feel your pain. I think what we have to remember is that no politician is going to do for us what we are not dead set and locked in to do for ourselves. That, given W.E.B. DuBois’ track record, may have been his larger point. Until we as Black people decide that we are going to do whatever we need to do with that billion or so dollars we spend a year to create what we need to get our people employed — well, let me put it this way. I have worked around enough seniors to know that the quality of care an elder in a convalescent situation gets is proportional to the interest of the elder’s family — if the family doesn’t care enough to show up and check up, then the workers and administrators are not going to be too careful either. Our relationship with political power ought to be colored with the same kind of understanding — if it is good enough for us to ignore the plight of our own people, then the politicians will act accordingly. Why should they do any more for us than we are willing to do for ourselves?