On Sunday, Pastor Jones preached a sermon in an effort to chronicle Black History and see where we are today. A reverberating question kept coming up, "Are we any better off today than we were yesterday?" When we review our past, certainly slavery was a blemish on America's legacy. The courageous acts of abolitionists and former slaves caused a camraderie that eventually ended slavery, Jim Crowism, segregationism and secured the Civil Rights Agenda's success. We all worked together for the commin good. But now, as free people are we better off? It is the Blacks selling drugs to the Blacks in the Black community. It is the Black that is spray-painting the walls in the Black neighborhood. It is the Blacks that are doing drive-by shootings in the Black areas. It is the Blacks that are pimping and prostituting our young girls. No, our enemy is not the one with the fairer color skin, it is the one whose skin has been darkened by the same sun. Our enemy looks just like us and is the same image staring back at us in the mirror. We have made great strides in spite of ourselves. We better take good inventory and retool our futures. Our ancestors and predecessors did much more than we with inferior tools. Come on y'all. Let's stop deferring the dream.

 

Blessings.