One
of the problems facing my generation is that we have never been united
through a cause. Our parents and our grandparents were united through
segregation and through Jim Crowe. It was just my parents generation
that saw Brown Vs The Board of Education, where my mom and dad could
legally go to school with whites and anyone else for that matter. I am
40, and there has not been a movement that has brought us together
through a collective. Nothing of substance to shut down this country to
have them takes us seriously. We are recipients of our Parents and
Grandparents marches, and efforts that ultimately changed LAWS! I thank
God for that, but because they had to fight for basic rights, and civil
right's, there was a bond created within their community and it was
formed through crisis. Our generation has not formed that type of unity,
because we have not shared that type of crisis on that level. They
fought so that we(babies at the time) would have it better, and we do,
but at what cost? We were the generation to go to private schools, have
sneakers that cost more than our parents outfit, video games, and all
the gaming systems at one time.... and the generation behind us, is even
that more removed from unity. Have we lost the brotherly and sisterly
love, and become infatuated with the rewards of life, instead of being
our brother's keeper? :-(
As always. . .
Inspirational Beauty!
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