I cannot tell you how many people I deal with who complain about their community and when asked what they are doing to change it, they simply say I am going to move to a better community. This is the wrong attitude. When a community becomes stagnant or starts to fail, that is when the residents need to sit down and come up with plans on how to grow and strengthen the community. -From a realestate blog by: We Buy Houses Home Services LLC
Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, and only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys are proficient in math, compared with 44 percent of white boys.
-Trip Gabriel from the New York Times in the Education Section Nov. 9th, 2010
Planning is one thing that needs to be done to solve the problems we face today in our communities. High School drop out rates, increased criminal behavior, joblessness and we can go on and on. However if there are only words spoken in meetings without movement, and if there are only meetings in boardrooms, but with no action, the problems we face will not cease, but they will continue to grow.
Our inability to take a stand and make a move is becoming one of our biggest hindrances for progress. We will continue down the downward spiral unless we abandoned what is comfortable, just talking about the issues. Stop talking and start doing.
I am thinking like Nike’s brand back in the day, “Just do it!” No need to wait for the right politician to get in office, we need you. No need to wait for a committee to decide what we should do, we need you. Stop waiting for the perfect timing, because it won’t come. Stop waiting for our knight in shinning armor, because he is not on the way. Collectively as we work together we become the superman or superwoman that we need, but until then we will remain as we are. Separated without strength.
