Let us not judge anyone. AmyWinehouse was a talented individual, but many people like her have not learnt how to deal with the responsibilities that come with being famous and having a lot of money. So they turn to drugs. Let us not judge, but instead pray for the ones who are living now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAQ1_dZD14Q
I am planning to open up a rehab for all the celebrities and for everyone else who needs it. But my Rehab gonna play reggae music to heal these people. Don’t worry Rihanna, I am going to help you before you get to that stage. It is so sad how these Record labels use these young musicians…squeeze them dry…then leave them to die. After they have made their money, they just leave them to deal with the loneliness, the emptiness of their life. No one to help them manage their personal lives. No one to help them with the things that really matter.
Modern Slavery
Plantation Slavery ended many years ago , however many people seem to still be trapped in slavery…Modern Slavery. Are you stuck in modern slavery? This is how it works. Many people who are high school drop outs, or have only a high school diploma end up working at fast food or retail stores. These stores pay the workers the minimum wage. After working hard, their pay can barely meet their bills and there is little or nothing left to allow them to save. So they think by working longer hours or getting a second job, and working harder, they will be able to pay their bills. So they work these 16 hour days, when they get home, they are so tired, they can hardly relax or spend time with their family. They fall exhausted in their beds then wake up the next morning to rush to work again.
Someone at their job quit, got fired, or called in sick (because of that same job) and so they end up working harder, doing the job of two people. Then their manager convinces them that it is a good idea to come in on their day off or to work time and a half on a public holiday, so that day, when they had planned to stay home and relax with family, they end up working 6 or maybe 7 days a week , with the idea that they are making “more money”.
Some people want to go back to school to finish their education, but when they get home, they are so tired that they have no time to get registered for classes or to study, if in school. No time to sit quietly and plan for the future, as many have to deal with the demands of their family in the little time they have when they get home.
So with little or no education, they remain stuck in a dead end job, never getting that promotion, and they are scared to leave their present job because they have all these bills, and they have no time for themselves, no time to go job hunting, no time to plan ahead.
They work hard every day for long hours, then they get sick because their body is over-stressed. Then that money for which they have been working so hard, they use to pay their medical bills, and some don’t get paid for days when they are sick. Some work “part time” (even they they work over 16 hours every day) for many years and never get “full time”, because as long as they are “part time”, the company does not give them benefits like health insurance, dental insurance, paid holidays or sick leave.
So they work long hours, have no day-offs, their pay goes directly to their bills, they are stuck in a dead end job. They have no control over their time. They don’t have control of their lives. They are a slave to their job, the bank and to the creditors. They are trapped in Modern Slavery.
Dear friends, don't get stuck in modern slavery and don’t get jealous of people when they start to move ahead in life. If things are not working out for you, learn some new skills. If you are 30 yrs old and older, you are from my generation where you learned that if you study hard and get a degree life is set for you. Unfortunately modern times and CoVid-19 have shown us this is not true. Many of us have to learn new skills to survive in these new times. Don’t give up on your degree just yet, how about you find creative ways to use your degree that your parents sold their house and land and the cow 🐄 and two goats 🐐 🐐 for you to get and apply your knowledge to the new unique situations that 2020 has thrown our way. Sometimes you have to swallow pride and be willing to try something new...
Young Men: Take A Stand!
Young Men! Young Black men!
If you find that God has blessed you with a sound mind, with intelligence, with a voice, with purpose in your life, then you have a duty!
You have a duty to lead the adolescents in your community. You have a duty to help the adolescent females and males, but at this time , I would like to discuss how you could help our young adolescent males.
Young Men, you need to teach young adolescent males
· The importance of education
· To respect, cherish, protect and value their sisters, female peers and all women
· Why pimping and prostitution is wrong
· The importance of being involved in extra-curricular activities like sports, music, community service.
· That when young people are involved in activities, they are less likely to be involved in negative activities like joining gangs
· Why using drugs is wrong
· Why over-indulgence I drinking is wrong
Why are the majority of our black men in jail/prison? Can the adolescents in the Black community be saved? Yes they can! But what is going to be done to address this problem? What are males going to do about it?
The negative cycle needs to be stopped. Many black men get trapped in a cycle where at an early age, they get involved in activities like using drugs, committing crime, they drop out of school without completing their education, by the time they are 21, some of them come to their senses and try to change their lives around, but by that time, they try to apply for a job, and then realize that they cant get a descent job because:
· They have no qualifications
· They have a felony on their record
· They do the pre-employment drug screen and fail it because of the level of drugs in their body
· They don’t know how to conduct themselves and how to speak properly at an interview
· They don’t know how to dress for an interview
· They don’t know how to take a daily shower, brush their teeth, groom their hair everyday. They think these things should only be done on special occasions like birthday, Easter and Christmas.
Plantation slavery may have ended many years ago but these young men are trapped in mental slavery. From the slavery plantation to the jail plantation. Other things that keep them trapped in mental slavery are
· They have a negative attitude towards working
· They have no positive role models in their present environment
· They have no father figure or mentor to guide them in the right direction
· They meet a nice young girl they may want to marry, end up getting that girl pregnant and have a baby that they cant provide for
· They sit around listening to negative demeaning music everyday that they chant and that helps to keep them trapped in a negative mind set.
· They hate the police, they hate the government, have no respect for law and order, they hate themselves, they hate the world and everything in it!
And so without a proper job, and no education or means to elevate themselves from the condition they find themselves in, in order to survive, they turn to crime; they cant get a descent date, so they rape the young women in their community; they get arrested for a range of criminal activity; they are put into jail where their brilliant young minds are wasted. It is such a shame that all this intelligence should be wasted. These brilliant minds left to rot. By the time they serve their sentence and are back on the streets, they are hardened, and set in their ways. Some of them try to change. Many of them genuinely want to get a good job, and when you speak with them, you are genuinely surprised at how intelligent they are. But they find that they still cant get a job because of their long criminal record and still no education and and no skills, and yet they still must live. They still must eat, buy clothes, find shelter, provide for their young. But they cant get a descent job. So in order to survive they must once more commit crime in order to provide for themselves. Then they get arrested again and so are trapped in a negative never –ending cycle! One that is very very hard for them to break out of.
Young Men! This is an urgent call for you to help end this destructive cycle. Help save your younger brothers from this negative cycle.
Young Men! It is possible to be a positive influence to the younger males in the community. Help them by being their mentor, by being their role model, their big brother. It is possible to save the adolescent males. It is possible to set an example in the community and be that agent of change. Young men, it is possible to teach the younger brothers the right way.
Young Men!
Young Black Men!
It is time to take a stand. Time to heed your call of duty. Time to lead your young brothers in the community!
