I have never been one to play around with the truth.I believe in the truth, hard core brutal honest truth. I really think that itis time that we, as young black Americans need to start holding our leadersresponsible for the things that they do and also start holding ourselves to thestandards that our ancestors had for us.
Truth lies in the minority. That is a powerfulstatement. Think about it. The truth lies in the minority. For decades this hasbeen overlooked. There are still people in the world that think AfricanAmericans need a hand. They believe and teach their children to believe thatblacks are always in need of some form of assistance. How true is thisstatement?
This statement is very true, but only from a certainperspective. Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Ida B. Wells and Mary McCloudBethune all needed some help, but the more viable question is, who did theyneed this help from? None of our ancestors accomplished the things they did bythemselves; however, there was a consensus among their people, AfricanAmericans, which allowed them to change the world through their truth.
We don’t need a hand from good old Uncle Sam whosepurpose is to right the wrongs that have been done to blacks. The power ofassistant comes from within. Truth lies in the minority. Unity is a conceptthat eludes our generation.
It was through this unity that we got our freedom sowhy discontinue this winning formula. There were blacks united for one cause:the betterment of a race. This is something that is missing in society today.
We have been trained to think inside the box. Blackhistory month is not the only time to acknowledge our history — this simplyisn’t good enough. While we asblacks are preoccupied with the latest fashions, music and trends, there isanother group out there that is deciding the fate of our lives and country.
During the November election I watched as the massespiled in to the F.G Clark Activity Center to have there say in their future andlife.
Today, I see no one push the issues that reallymatter. I see no one with a political conscience. There has to be someone witha voice that wants to be heard.
Where are the truth tellers? Where are those peoplethat want to stir emotion and awareness to the masses?
Bill Cosby, Russell Simmons, Cornell West and otherblack figures are not enough. We have to push the issues ourselves- our generation.Many of them saw the activism in its original state. We haven’t but it does notmean that we can’t produce it.
African Americans need to realize that we can createwhat is truth, but it has to be done in the formula used by our ancestors:Unity, Protest and Perseverance. I know that these concepts are ones that wehave not witnessed first hand, but that does mean that they don’t work.
Young African Americans are the minority in which thetruth lies. I have never seen or heard of for that matter, a university withouta political pulse. There is an entire world out there waiting to be touched byour minds and molded by our hands. We must open our eyes to real truth. The truth that we make, the minority’s truththat is untainted by the illusionary majority, and that is truth.
