Combing the Blogs: The African American Crisis: A Choice for Freedom | Today’s Drum – Positive Black News

The responsibility of African Americans to make the choice for freedom is pivotal for the experience and opportunity of succeeding generations.  Our society and the world overall are in the midst of significant and rapid change.  These are the circumstances within which African Americans are seeking emergence for now and the future.  African Americans cannot prepare the next generation for these changes by simply dispensing guidance such as “make good choices and you will be successful in this world.” 

These are false promises.  For one thing, more than those words will be necessary for success in this complex, changing world.  Most importantly, African American adults cannot tell the next generation to make “good choices” when the adults fail to make the “good choice” for freedom based on a relationship with human effectiveness.  Without the adult choice for freedom, succeeding generations may be designated as the new “bearers of the Torch” but they will lack the availability of “good choices” with which to grow, be free and carry that “Torch.”  Tragically, the future for these young people may well be a sentence to an “enslavement” created more by a failure of the African American adult generation of this time to make a choice for freedom than  by factors such as continuing unfair treatment, bigotry, or ignorance in our society.

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