“I want the best for my children,” Lesororo declares thoughtfully. “I have six children in this school; it is important they succeed. Education is their future.” Ordinarily at this hour, Lesororo would be tending to cattle. Her children used to miss school in turns to support in domestic chores. All that is in the past, she promises.
The daughter-in-law, who had just come in, shouted from the kitchen “I would pick Love. Pick Love, Mum.” (I guess there must have been something going on with her husband:)). The old woman went back out, still torn on which to pick, but when she looked all 3 in the eyes, she said “OK, Love, lets go in.”
We all know someone who could benefit from Reading this Letter from a college student on Black Perception and Sagging Pants. Pass this on to Our Youth, Our Parents, Our Black Men and Women.
Comedienne Angie Le Mar teams up with the mother of murdered teenager, James Smartt-Ford, to affect change and improve young people’s chances of surviving the epidemic of gun and knife crime blighting the capital. They need your help!
We’re conditioned to ‘no’ our way through life. From the moment we’re born we cry as a way of saying ‘no.’ The fear that builds within us as we journey through life – fear of risking, fear of change, fear of growth, fear of loving – creates an immense “No Factor” in us. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
You’ve already heard the chronic messages in your mind of limitation or doubt before; they’ve already been played (and heard) so why are you continuing to listen to those messages?!
We have the same tools to make a difference as did any other community activist in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement – two hands, two legs, a heartbeat and one brain. All we have to do is turn on the light and “be the dream.” SPEAK on it!
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