"Directing Rage Against The Machines"

SPONSORED BY MARK PITTMAN--2014-A year in review for Black America--high profile cases of murder, injustice and scandal, involving both celebrity figures and average citizens who gained notoriety by tragedy, have poured endlessly into the news and become a routine infusion into the lives of African-Americans. Racially-charged acts of inhumanity and brutality against African-Americans are no longer masked with "plausible" covert smokescreens, but are openly committed with 19th-century acceptance. African-American responses were passive and submissive in the 19th century, slowly transitioned into the powerful revolutionary revolt of the Civil Rights Era, then regressed again into modern-day passive-aggressive responses. Ferguson birthed a new age of youthful protesters with all of the fire of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, etc., but only half the leadership and community support and parental guidance. Hence, we were left with semi-prepared groups of well-intended, passionate, children who reacted to their frustrations rather than well guided missionaries armed with proactive knowledge of what goals they should be aiming for, and what steps toward positive change they should be executing. We have become a programmed self-destructive lot instead of the powerful unified proud people who cared about securing a strong future for our families. We have adopted pleasing the assailants by self criticizing, looking the other way, and finding fault with our appearances, our mannerisms, etc that loan excuses to the outright attacks on our rights to live in peace and freedom. What routine habits should we change for true progress? What should we keep unchanged but strengthen? What mindsets whould we shed? Join in with your thoughts tonight at 10:30 pm EST by calling 347-327-9967.