First Ever

This being the first time ever that I am officially blogging, I decided to actually take it in a serious direction. I guess I have always had something to say about something, but recent events have rachetted up the need and desire to go public.

I was more than a little disturbed when a friend's son was disparaged and ridiculed to the degree of emasculation by his own teacher. The young man is 11 years old. He was told that because of the dreadlocks that he wears, that in her, the teacher's country, he would be considered a girl. And further treated as such. Really? These are the people that we have working in our schools?

I know it has been an unsung policy for decades to emasculate the Black Man through measures of ridicule and bad grades and harsher disciplinary action so that the overall eventuality would force certain self-fulfilling prophesies. I know that I as a Black Man and others like me, need to get ourselves in these schools as teachers and administrators to show these young men who they truly are. I know that we need to require more of the brothers around us when it comes to dealing with our children and our communities. I also know that these young women need to require more from us as well. But my God, when do we say enough is enough? When do we do something to correct this and other such scenarios? It is a destructive cycle that can be arrested if we so choose.

Forgive me a choppy and maybe a little scattered rambling. My first blog as I said and I can only improve over time. Until we meet, until we meet, later will always be greater.