Black History Means Black Responsibility
The most important lesson we can teach our children during Black History Month is that the color of their skin has an amazing story connected to it that began as the first people to walk the earth, whose technology built the Great Pyramids, and whose strength survived the brutality of slavery and Jim Crow.
We must use the celebration of Black History Month to challenge them to create their own history. Our legacy only continues through them.
We have to ask ourselves, "Am I raising a future doctor or lawyer, or a future criminal or inmate? Am I setting an example that will create a better husband or wife, or a deadbeat and abuser?"
Parenting and mentoring is a powerful thing, you can nurture a genius or destroy a child's self esteem if you don't take your responsibility seriously.
Black History Month is about Black Struggle and Black Responsibility. Let's honor our ancestors by sacrificing for our children as much as they did for us.
Michael Baisden
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