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I love how optimistic Mel is!!!! It takes a person of considerable character to interact and do as you have Mel. Most people tend to do what is easiest and what connects them to the most people at one time and that's social media. The perception of social drives the engine of connection for most. You have taken the time to join a community and the interesting thing is everything here is indexed and searchable through Google which means you are creating a bigger digital footprint than just using social media which tends to disappear within 24 hours unless it goes viral which is very rare. Keep attempting to link the sites though because it is definitely an admirable cause and it's needed.

Thank You! I removed the image link and added the image directly.

I added one of my blogs. I remember seeing many of those blogs displayed on the black weblog awards. Maybe a partnership or combined promotional efforts with the organization may be a win.

Cynique The Academy work award you an Honorary degree based on your rhetorical accuity. Platonically yours, Del

Heard on the local news last night : A 20-something year-old Black man here in Metro Atlanta won about 400-thousand dollars in the Georgia lottery. He was shot to death in an apparent home invasion on Wednesday night. His sister was in the house at the time but unharmed. The moral of this tale : Dreams do come true but when it does it's probably best to leave your neighborhood.

ONE OF DR. KING'S BOOKS CALLED,WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE,CHAOS OR COMMUNITY.HE SPOKE OF PEOPLE OF ALL RACES COMING TOGETHER TO END POVERTY AND SUPPORT EQUALITY JUSTICE..HOPING BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES WOULD BE INVOLVED/IT WANT HAPPEN.REPUBLICANS , RACISM ,CLAIMING RELIGION,THE FUHRER DONALD TRUMP A PROUD RACIST, SUPPORTED BY WHITE SUPREMACIST,KKK LEADERS,KKK TERRORIST CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS,AS TRUMP HATES ISIS AND ISLAM..///RELIGION IS HATRED ,GREED ,RACISM /////

At what point do we realize the root and fix it? Why is it we were able to pull together in the worst eras and grow. How long do we blame the system? At what point do we fix us? Blaming systemic issues does nothing but promote the victim and I'm owed mentality. Just because a gun or drugs are brought to the community we don't have to use it. If I know I'm screwing up my job is to figure it out. Blaming perpetuates the system just as much as the system does and has. How did we fight through the worst things ever only to let the system prevent any further progress? Why did this guy keep pushing: http://www.inquisitr.com/1811267/james-robertsons-gofundme-money-may-not-be-used-for-car-at-all-amazing-turn-of-events-no-more-shoes-made-for-walking/ How did you create college students, a Black owned business if the system is so dastardly? How many problems are created by bad decisions vs the system?

I lived through the Witch hunting era of J.Edgar Hoover who was the Devil Incarnate, a vicious abuser of his power. My recollections if this period have to do with the mentality and attitude of the general black population of which I and my contemporaries were typical of. The Communist Party never really made great inroads into the ranks of the black masses. Like everybody else, black folks were brainwashed by "Red Scare" propaganda into thinking that godless Communism was evil and not the answer to racism. Moreover, the Communist cause was not helped by the unwillingness of its paternalistic leaders to share their authority with black converts. But Hoover was obsessed with the threat of Communism. Similarly, the Black Panthers never captured the support of mainstream Blacks because they were too militant; black people loved the romanticized sinister image and revolutionary rhetoric of the Panthers but weren't convinced the United States government could be overthrown. The greatest accomplishment of the Panthers was that they scared the hell out of Hoover who overestimated their influence and regarded them as a real threat. Black people really loved Malcom X for standing up to white America and tellin' it like it was but they did not flock to the Black Muslim movment in great numbers. The austere Islamic lifestyle with its restrictions required too many sacrifices. "Negroes" also could not bring themselves to believe that all whites were "blue-eyed devils". But once again, the fanatical Hoover harbored great fear of this group and its leaders who he was determined to destroy.. Martin Luther King was the true messiah of most Blacks. They believed in him and were inspired to follow him and his nonviolence strategies. This really unnerved Hoover and, pervert that he was, he became a voyeur of King's sex escapades, which were fodder for black mail. To me, the most amazing thing about those times, was the loyalty and patriotism exhibited by the black majority. They never gave up on democracy and the idea that America was their country, too, and that with help from white people of good will, they would overcome. The reward for their faithfulness was the insidious campaign on the part of an arm of the government determined to bring about the devastation of America's black community. Today, black hope is comparable to the "raisin in the sun" metaphor of poet Langston Hughes.