"There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves."
This statement is as true today as it was 50 years ago. There is a strong need among people of color to first deal with the issues that impact us internally. As everyday citizens, we need to do the hard work in our own communities to make a different in the lives of the generation we are responsible for raising. As citizens, we need to hold our elected officials, including the President, accountable for addressing issues of education, poverty, health care, violence and drugs that impact the Black and Latino communities at disproportionately higher rates. And on this last day of Black History Month, we must hold ourselves and each other accountable for doing better, being better and teaching better to those in our communities. Malcolm, Martin and Medgar died so we could push forward and do better. We owe it to them to keep the fight going and push our communities to greatness!
Have a conscious day!
~Maliek~
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February is Black History Month - 28 days to celebrate the profound, enduring and proud history of Black people in America
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