Bill Cosby seems to be the only prominent black person that’s talking to us about what we need to do for ourselves, instead of at us about what others are doing to us. And we have criticized him for it. There’s no doubt that racism is alive and well in America however our problems are also within. When a black person is shot or stabbed, nine times out of ten, they were shot or stabbed by one of us.

When one of us buys crack or some other illegal drug, nine times out of ten, they are buying that crack and those drugs from one of us. When we see gangs terrorizing our neighborhoods, we also see that 99% of those gangs membership are us.Throughout our communities there are single teen-aged mothers, who were made single teen-aged mothers by one of us.

Everyday, somewhere in America, at least one black person’s home is broken into and 99% of those brake-ins were done by one of us.To many of our children’s mothers are being forced to raise them by themselves. And the person leaving these mothers with no alternative, but to raise our children by themselves, is one of us.We take the time to go to our children’s ballgame; however we don’t make the time to attend our children’s open school week or PTA meetings. And as a result, we have children who can score 20 points, run for touchdowns and hit a curveball out of the park; but couldn’t write a sentence if you spotted them a noun, a verb and a period to end that sentence with.

When we begin to take responsibility for the environment in which we live we will also begin to realize that what others are doing to us is nothing compared to what we are doing to ourselves. Because we are not powerful enough to overrule ourselves, we quit our jobs because our boss didn’t like us, we’ve dropped out of school because our teaches couldn’t teach us, we left home because our parents didn’t love us and we’ve left the mother of our children because she didn’t understand us. We use these excuses in an attempt to appear mature and on top of the situation. But it’s really a cope out. One day we as a people have got to realize “the objective world mirrors the subjective world.”

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Kenneth Brown can be emailed at brown6207@bellsouth.net