Days later, I have a heavy heart!  My goal for this blog, which coincides with my passion for knowledge, learning and understanding, is to dig for information and resources that are not readily available through the mainstream media. Yet, to my dismay, it sometimes takes me to places that I do not want to venture but cannot help but go.  To that end, my latest post will be not informative; however, more of an op-ed piece.

I've uncovered some information lately that has me thinking and somewhat angry, I suppose.  It has to do with the plight of the african american people in this country.  The last article I read was one dealing with investment in africa.  It's being hailed as "The Final Frontier" (Barrons, 8/2/10) and investors are being urged to take a second look at an area that was once deemed politically unstable and a struggling economy.  Since things are now changing, it seems that African is ripe for the picking of its natural resources, among other things.  I also read, in the same week, an article in the Village Voice that talks about how the prisons are built upstate to pump money into a particular area and that they build them as much for profit as they do to house wayward teens in need of rehabilitation.  My point is this,  at every turn, whether mainstream or underground, it doesn't look good for african americans or people of color.  And the clincher - seemingly, african-americans are the only ones not getting it!  Period.  Busy with the business of "making it"  we lost our sense of community.  A need to look out for each other.  There are a host of injustices that face our community that we need to address.  Enough of us know enough to education, assist, resource, and make better communities.  The problem is that we are so spread out and so divided that we can barely reach each other unless it's at a cookout, bus ride, church, party, black play - some form of entertainment.   Not to say that we don't attend seminars and the like, but we need to reach the masses that mainstream is reporting on because that's the black america that the  world sees and believes.  What can one do! (sigh)