On This Day of June 19th 1865 ALL of the slaves were finally Freed. While the emancipation proclamation was a piece of paper that legally said all slaves were to be freed in January 1st 1863 it wasn't until Juneteenth (June 19th 1865)  that the last slaves living in Texas were freed. So If the Independence Declaration was signed July 4th 1777, no blacks living in America were free, therefore blacks have nothing to celebrate on July 4th because our people were not free. Rather we should celebrate if anything Juneteenth. While many of us are still mentally enslaved we should take this time to analyze what other things don't we know about America's History and its continued oppression against all its people. 
That is all. 

How does an entire race recover from something as terrible as slavery. An institution that was built to dehumanize an individual. Or rather can an entire race recover from such? Not in a world where no one lets you ever forget that your people were at one time slaves, then treated as less than. One huge way blacks can try to even the playing field is by obtaining an education. While millions of African Americans enroll in colleges and universities all over the world others still fail to see its usefulness. Some of them that do enter colleges, treat the school as if it owes something to them. While the public schools have failed on countless occasions to reveal the "whole truth and nothing but" in the history books, its whole purpose to educate the youth in reading writing and arithmetic seems to go unnoticed by students and parents alike. Somewhere along the line parents found school as an unnecessary commodity and students began to pick up on this habit. The result is students who continually act out and disrupt class with no regard to consequences because they know their parents either do not care are not around. " Black people, in general, seem to have their priorities ALL messed up. We are also a fearful and prideful people. When it comes to education, Blacks, again IN GENERAL, don't seem to value it. It's not a priority for them. In other cases, Blacks see the importance of education but are too lazy to pursue it or keep at it. They want instant results Finally, due to the other two examples, many Blacks don't have positive role models and/or mentors to help and inspire them." -Kara Lee.  When black children in general do not have good role models they end up like their parents in most cases, and thus continue the cycle. It is then up to us that notice this problem to do something about it. To find a way to teach our youth to prize education. Education is a gift that our people once fought for, now that it is given freely we should appreciate it and take advantage of this gift to make a better world for ourselves, our people and mankind as a whole. 

So my thoughts on the think a man epidemic?? Ugh! I’d much rather like to think like me, the strong black woman that I am, while knowing how most men think because i.e. they don’t all think alike actually but they do think generally similar and personally I like the fact that I think different from most people.

Smilez out 
-rogue Writer