We're Losing the Battle!

Being an eternal optimist, I always try to see the good in people, society our leaders and so forth. But when I hear a story like the recent beating death of a 16 year old honor student at the hands of mere children, it almost makes me question God. To watch, with the rest of America our young brothers acting like savage animals and brutally murder a child while other children in the background chant, "get him" was more than my heart could bare. I am blessed to have a nephew that is 16 years old and I love him more than he will ever know. I think of him almost every day and I pray for him whenever he crosses my mind. In my own cautious and worrisome way, a dreaded thought crossed my mind. I thought of him walking from school and being randomly attacked and beaten by a number of other young men. And while the brutality is ensuing, he thinks to himself, these questions. Why? Why aren't the people standing by doing anything? How much longer will it be before someone stops this? Am I going to die? And then to himself praying that last prayer you consciously say to yourself right before you black out. No one could ever imagine the level of fear that could ever be endured...no one. I thought of what was so unthinkably wrong with our society when anyone would think for a moment that this is acceptable behavior, but yet I watched as many of them walked away like the act that had just been committed was commonplace. Who had failed their community?, who had failed them?, who had failed the young man that was killed? In my own brutally honest and sometimes offbeat way of response, I said to myself, that we all had.

Ironically, just a few weeks ago, I had seen the Minister Louis Farrakhan speaking on the state of Black America as a response to a caller and was so fortunate to find it on youtube. I want to share it with you, in hopes that we as men and women, would become the leaders that we are and were meant to be. Mentor some young child or group of children, stop and talk to some lost soul, volunteer in your community, anything that you can do to lift US up. Because if we don't, not only do we lose the battle, we lose the war.