BLACK HISTORY MONTH REVAMP!

Hello World what’s up?
So it’s Feb 24th 2010 and technically it is still Black History Month so I don’t want to see no slack from yal out there talking about how I’m so late. Anyways I thought it very important to at least say a few words on this blog about the Legacy of Black People and not just to shove a whole load of facts down your throat. I was reading an issue from my school news paper “Excalibur” and it was talking about Black History Month (BHM) and how we get lost in the facts and the history and totally are ignorant to the fact that we are now living what will be considered Black History to the future generations. And needless to say that knocked me over like a ton of bricks. It brought me back to a conversation I was having with Mr. Gooden my business partner and co-founder of The Envisioners Productions about today’s music and what could possibly be seen as the musical revolution of the future. We touched on issues like “we think that we have reached the pivotal point. And that everything that might ever be made in music has already been made and discovered.” Clearly we are limiting ourselves to the events of the past, not as much as even recognizing the fact that in order for our future, or legacy as described by the article to bring forth new ideas, creations, and achievements we need to look forward and push towards our own destiny.
Harriet Tubman, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Shirley Cesar, Scissile Tyson, Nelson Mandela just to name a few, didn’t go through what they did so that they could be hung up on a wall for black people of the future to gaze at. NO! They did what they did because they understood that there was a better calling for the future of their children, and children’s children, and so on. I highly doubt that they would condone the very idea of BHM because we are very much capable of doing ground breaking acts and making world shaking changes in OUR PRESENT DAY!
This BHM I am imploring everyone to disregard our traditional ways of celebration, get out of the past and press on towards the future! If all of our greats had celebrated BHM the way we do we would all still be SLAVES! Working for Massa down at the plantation! SNAP OUT OF IT PEOPLE! We can make great changes today, and many black people have been integral members of our society today making a difference, seeking out to create a better future for their children, and children’s children. We have not discovered all that there is to be made as yet. We are still an integral part of BLACK HISTORY the legacy continues.
WHAT WILL YOUR STORY SAY?

CYA RESPECT