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It’s Time: G-parents, parents, men & women
Grandparents, parents, men and women we need to start making sure the village is concern and making every possible effort to ensure the safety of every child. We have to come out of our comfort zone of complaining about how out of control our children are, and realize our children were not born delinquents. They are what we brought into this world, given stewardship over and were supposed to train up in the way they should go. Families, churches and individual have to step up. The churches' role is even more critical because it’s a venue where grandparents, parents, men, women and children come for worship and fellowship and many of them are the product of single family households. The church has a great opportunity to touch the soul, mind and body. I’m holding myself accountable for my lack of action on behalf of our children; charity starts at home and home, is my community. I have to ask myself some serious questions. Have I said anything about prayers being taken out of our schools and replace by metal detectors, dogs, and the police, about no after school programs that offer our children a safe haven between 3:00 and 7pm? In almost 90% of the most trouble urban areas, there are no after school facilities that offer our teens and pre-teens a safe place to be children in an environment that is conducive to their development. What have I done? GPPMW, I don’t know about you, but every time I hear about one of our children being killed it tears at my very Soul; I feel the sense of waste. Our sons are losing their Lives and Time; it’s always 2 for the price of one; one loses his life to the grave and the other, it’s is his life and time to prison, just a senseless waste of our future. We need a bail-out for our at risk kids in violence-infested neighborhoods. We need to look at some facts and start making some rational decisions and start getting involved. The cost implications of such an epidemic are serious. An ounce of prevention is far more cost-effective than crisis care when children get sick or into trouble, drop out of school or suffer family breakdown. ▪ The total cost for of educating a student yearly is about $6,500. ▪ The total cost for a kindergarten to high school graduation education is almost $85,000. ▪ The Average cost of mentoring a child for a year is $ 1,000 ▪ The annual per child cost of a high quality after-school program is $ 2,700. ▪ The cost of providing a year of employment training for unemployed youth is $ 3,448. • The cost for a year of public education in ▪ The average annual per child cost of Head Start is $7,326 • The average cost of incarcerating a child is about $67,890 a year. ▪ Because of the Cradle to Prison Pipeline® crisis, Black boys born in 2001 have a one in three lifetime chance of going to prison, Hispanic boys a one in six chance and White boys a one in seventeen chance of the same fate. By dismantling the Pipeline, all of Thanks to the Children Defense Fund: |
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Our President
Our President is not black or white, he is our president. When that journalist threw his shoe at President Bush I was not amused, he was throwing that shoe at America; not our white or black president, but the President of these United States and that’s (you and me)
I think it’s so small, of a few Americans, to let the world see the negative-caricature and words some intelligently challenged Americans used to describe our president. As smart as we would like the world to think we are, you would think an intelligent American would judge our president by the content of his character not the color of his skin; but I’m sure the intelligent Americans do judge content and the challenged don’t because they are still stuck on skin and I’m so glad their numbers are dwindling but, old habits dies hard.
I think all Americans should give our 44th president the same treatment we gave the 1st 43 presidents. They were judged by the content of their character and performance, nothing else.
Roberts’ Rules of Order said,” the majority rules, and the majority of Americans said ‘Barack Obama, is the president of these United States’. The American People spoke, not black or white but, American Voters, and each of those voters, voted for Barack Obama’s content of character, his platform of change and healthcare reforms; what we see today is what we voted for. If our president fails, America fails.
I’m so glad the mantle has been passed to our younger generation, who is much more willing to judge content of character more so than color of skin; except those few who are still under the influence of my peers, those whom are stuck on color, with no consideration for content of character and is still infesting the minds of the young people who look up to them and value their opinions with their prejudices. I am referring to those Americans who are still spewing their negative caricatures and word; they know who they are and the real motive behind their action. You see, character and class cannot be bought or sold but, ignorance can be bought, and it sells very well.
I’m asking every American to let your conscious be your guide, (as if you were going to treat me as you wish to be treated) knowing your thoughts are from your mind to Gods’ Ears; yes, I said “God.” our country was built on “ In God We Trust.” When we as Americans were putting God first in our lives, business and country we were a more Principal Nation. When you change your foundation from a rock to sand, every storm will wash some of it away: principals, integrity, honesty, trust, faith, goodness, love and mercy, just to name a few.
Lets’ all, let our conscious be our guide
Speaking of conscious, what does yours say, 'is the difference between public education and socialism'????????
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