June 21, 2011
I would suggest "encouragement" on our part would create greater "courage" on the part of our young Brothers for we (as adults) have to figure out how to reinforce the values of living, loving and learning in our children, and we are the ones who obviously and adequately have failed to pass them the torch . . .
R. Lee Gordon
TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN
In as much as I would love to share the burden of responsibility in regards to:
"we (as adults) have to figure out how to reinforce the values of living, loving and learning in our children, and we are the ones who obviously and adequately have failed to pass them the torch"
R. Lee Gordon
I must confess that I was born in the early 1950's therefore my generation held the line and we advanced the"living, loving and learning in our children," and now we must come out of full retirement to raise our childrens, children's children because you young people "failed to pass them the torch"
I am almost 60 years old, and why would anyone my age be trying to work together with a 30 year old?
The sun is setting on my voice and The Jesse Jackson's, Al Sharpton and Louis Farakkans of the world.
We took our turn for black America, we had our say to white America, we wrote our books for you to read, we defended our cause and we leave this mortal plane not fearing death but as honorable men that can proudly proclaim that no one black American that depended upon the names of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farakkan or Enoch Mubarak ever went cold, hunger, homeless, ignored or undefended.
In Jesse Jackson's moment he told black America "you are somebody". Al Sharpton took it from the mean, hard streets of Brooklyn to the National Democratic Convention and had his say in our behalf to White America.
Louis Farakkan called on one million black men to assembly and they came. Enoch Mubarak wrote the plans and blueprints in a book titled Undercover Smart that recons the 21st century landscape for black Americans after the civil right era ended and the era of intellectual rights began.
THE POINT IS:
We took our turn and now it is your turn because after our voices are silenced the voices you will hear in abundance next will belong to the Tavis Smiley's and Cornel West's of the world and black America has heard and has dialed in to what they have to say:
After they have had their say It will be the time of the young strong voices and hard bodies of brothers like yourself.
It is the voices of your era that will take your children and my grandchildren beyond the boundaries of the 21st century and if your comments to me is any indication or glimpse into the future for your cchildren and my great grandchildren then our children are dead..dead...dead.
For extreme clarity place Tavis Smiley and Cornel West between the 60 year olds and the 30 year olds and you can clearly envision and understand that black men of your age and younger are 3 levels deep from the chain of command and from the front-line voices that are being heard today.
Feel me when I tell you that we took our turn in the era of civil rights but we can't retire in the 21st century era of intellectual rights because the generation after me on down won't take their turn so that the Jesse Jackson's, Al Sharpton, Louis Farakkans and Enoch Mubarak's of the world can retire our voices once and for all time.
We can't retire our voices because we are out here doing your job and speaking up for young black men that are 3 levels deep.
WE DON'T NEED TO WORK TOGETHER
What we need is for young hard body black men to take your turn. Do your job. Handle your civic business and duties. Stop lecturing the original warriors on duty, obligation and responsibility
Handle your business and secure a foundation and place for your children and my great grandchildren in 21st century black America.
Leave Martin Luther King and Malcolm X to us. The civil rights era is done. Martin Luther king is dead; Malcolm X is dead and The Jesse Jackson's, Al Sharpton, Louis Farakkans and Enoch Mubarak's are soon to follow.
Instead of lecturing us old soldiers look at the conditions on the ground being left by the Tavis Smiley's and Cornel West's of your generation.
The likes of Tavis Smiley's and Cornel West's are the voices and bridges connecting the civil rights era to the 21st century era of the Obama Nation.
Sincerely, Enoch Mubarak
President/CEo Mubarak Inter-prizes
www.mubarakinter-prizes.com
