CHANGING THE MINDSET OF BLACK AMERICANS

"CHANGING THE MINDSET OF BLACK AMERICANS"

If the saying is true 'What A Man Thinks - He Says, What A Man Says - He Does" then it must be true that even speaking such negative language is the direct perpetuation of negativity in the Black Community. YOU are guilty of helping destroy the very essence that you claim to uphold by finger pointing and not accepting a more proactive role in deferring the negative inclinations that have been taught and retaught for generations.

BARACK OBAMA: Instead, Obama seized the moment to exhort the group -- and all black Americans -- to take responsibility for overcoming the economic and social inequalities that still plague our our community, while acknowledging the role of institutional racism. "Government programs alone won't get our children to the Promised Land," Obama said. "We need a new mindset, a new set of attitudes – because one of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way that we have internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little of ourselves." He left the group with this message: "If three civil rights workers in Mississippi...could lay down their lives in freedom's cause, I know we can come together to face down the challenges of our own time. We can fix our schools, heal our sick, and rescue our youth from violence and despair."