DISQUS

GB · 2 years ago

KMIT (just practicing for August), I am so glad you posted on this. I don't know if you read the Bobby Kennedy Jr interview in Oprah a few months ago but it was ridiculously informative on this issue. I am still floored and can't believe the many ways being economically disadvantaged is a death sentence in this country.

Ms. Cherry · 2 years ago

Yes, unfortunately, this has been going on for years and you would think that with all the social justice orgs that fight over grants and claim to have black folks best interest at heart, that some things just wouldn’t exist. Another problem is the lead in drinking water in poor neighborhoods. It’s a known fact that lead is in paint and dust but most don’t think about the fact that the tap water they drink from and bathe in daily could have high levels of lead in it. Check your stuff!! Pregnant women and children age 6 and under are most at risk according to the Lead-Free Drinking Water Act. There’s a huge problem going on in our Nations Capitol, DC, and it’s a battle that many think is foolish and without merit. In 2004 the story broke in the Washington Post about high levels of lead in DC drinking water. In 2007 there is still a problem, Wow. We need to EDUCATE OURSELVES EVEN MORE on environmental issues and spread the word throughout our communities; especially to those that are less fortunate than others. We must protect them! Empowerment is key! We have to GET MORE INVOLVED in the legislative process and learn more about what’s going on behind the four walls of congress and our local municipalities. Today marks the 37th year anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death and sometimes it seems like things are getting worse. Marvin Gay sang about pollution in his song “Mercy Mercy Me” (The Ecology), check it out! I know we all wonder what they would be doing and saying if they were still alive. We must FIGHT HARDER to shine the light on issues that are important and crucial to the black community and bring life threatening issues to the forefront. We must GET RADICAL about awareness within our communities. We’ve got to CONTINUE to have DIALOGUE like this and postings and blogs and anything else that will “GET THE WORD OUT” …. I salute those that came before us, they fought the good fight. I salute YBP and others that focus on these and other issues. Thank you. I am humbly grateful. We young folk have to take the baton and run like we’ve never run before. “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,…". Peace & Blessings to you all.