Being the change...
Collective Renaissance Guild::
Inkognegro on Sickle Cell Disease::
The Conversation & my rants about african-american family dysfunction::
and introducing....?:: No, I'm not ready for that yet. But it's my contribution, and I'm working on it, and you'll hear about it soon enough. It's something I've been mulling over for a while, and the mulling isn't idle - it's an idea whose time is now, and needs development to properly bring it to fruition. I'm almost ready. And when I am, you'll hear about it.
The bottom line:: our community, the African American community is fraught with issues. And we keep expecting existing institutions, that are mired in old school policies, methods and ideologies to deal with these new school issues. But that's not working. And it's not going to come just from the NAACP, or the ACLU or American Red Cross. And it's not going to be a PSA about why we should do good - despite my nostalgia about days gone by. It starts with us. We are the village. We're not living in a vacuum.
This is Social Activism, 2.0 people. It's Tom's Shoes, and Ashoka, and Idealist.org, and Singles for Service, and social entreprenurship, and proving that doing good benefits us all, including capitalists and multinational corporations. It's using Twitter, and Facebook, and other social media tools, and mashups, and Ajax, and blogs and this little thing called the internet to do more than gossip about celebrities and live chatting about falsality (false reality) shows. This is about constantly asking yourself a question, repeatedly.
What have you done for the village, lately?
@Mariland - exactly - I can only expect to do my little part, and hope that my peers/colleagues do theirs. It may seem small, but our collective efforts add up :-)
well stated. with the advances of today versus yesterday, the ability to cause change is great. but how so we incite the call to action? how many more obvious calls will go ignored and unaddressed?
kudos to you for recognizing life is a group effort.