Edit: I also just want to say that if you're willing to risk your life, then you might as well do it honorably and enlist in the services. Because that's what you're really doing, risking your life to feed your family.
You don't get it. Enlisting in the military has never been seen as a viable option for young black men trapped in the ghetto.
For starters, a large number of young black teenagers are forced to make money early in their lives to support family, like around 15/16.
That's considered a man where I'm from.
Secondly, which also ties into my first point, these families need infusions of money quick just to survive in America. You got mother's trying to
feed entire families off $60 dollars worth of food stamps for a month.
Everyone understands that selling drugs is a HIGH risk, but also a HIGH "reward" action.
But it's a damn shame when a teens only options to succeed in life are to entertain, sell drugs, or enlist in the army and become America's @##%#.
Furthermore, to piggyback off of what HAZE said, we as Black Americans can't feel as if the "job" is done simply because Obama was elected.
In fact, this is where the hard part begins. Now, we have to unite as a people and get involved in the government affairs that directly affect
our families and our communities. Write Senators, Write letters to public officials, Blog, Work for special interest groups, Demonstrate if need be.
Just look at what the homosexual community has done with the recent Prop 8 legislation. They stopped going to work and took to the streets...HARD. In less thana month, they have gotten the California Supreme Court to agree to review their case. That's making your voice be
heard. That's change we can believe in, regardless of the outcome of the Court's decision.
The black community must unite and put forth similar efforts.
