As a people and not just the black race we work against all odds of our world, including ourselves. We have been given the opportunity to be a voice. We are the minority in class and citizenship, so why haven't we capitalized on this chance of black independence. There is a reason why we can't accept the fact that we can be a people and not just a class. There is a road leading toward mental prosperity, but hasn't been reached for reasons that have been our own. Time is moving so we must move with it and climb higher, first by educating. In the black community our main focus that should be with ourselves especially with the young generation, is education. We can't focus too much on starting businesses, which is resourcesful but not substaining. There is no way to be able to succeed without eduaction. With the many opportunities there are out there to be smarter and knowing your system, your law and government, true history and current situations going on here and abroad. We have to think as black people, why reading and writing was so protected from our hands and minds when we were first brought ashore to America. The idea was to be ahead and to control, without education you will always be second and never first, behind and never ahead. That is one reason why education before entrepreneurship is important. But there is a gap, and that is in proffession, if we have not enough black representation in government, medicine, and private institutions, there always will be one looking for rights, better health, and better employment in our worse hit communities. There is something about having representation that helps identifies our people and gives them hope to do better. The trick is that money is not prosperity and the sooner we get that the better off we will be from those who decieve our people and take from not just the shackles on our minds but pockets. Prosperity is well being, that means mentally, to take it further, poverty is a state of mind as well as prosperity. It is not only the government keeping us in poverty it is businesses of people who have spent years educating themselves on you, your community, and mindset.

With election time now here, it is important to know not just who your electing, but the majority of those who this person represents and brings into office with him. I personally would like to see more of mixed crowds of race of people in the white house and on the senate floor, such as African Americans, Native Americans, and other race of Americans as well. This I believe will change the face of America and give its flag true meaning.