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Being Part of Something Larger than Oneself, & the Joy it Brings
We live in a crisis of joy. Forces of darkness drain us of hope. Young people from the ghetto are sent on a failing mission straight toward their demise. Being a part of something larger than oneself is life-changing. There is great liberation that comes from...
Do What Isn’t Done
Overprioritizing individualism is killing our children. The human race is taking humanities out of schools. These are moral crimes on humanity. Leaders today are so broke in the marketplace of kindness and empathy. We cannot engineer anything to improve the lives of...
Message to the Niagara Movement Foundation
Esteemed friends of the Niagara Movement Foundation, we commemorate you for your commitment to being agents of social change. In this country, we often value things over human relationships. We use things to help us feel strong. We even think that to love...
Putting Down the Old, Picking up the New
As we chase doors to our desires of the current trending world of material, we close off the doors to true freedom and happiness. As long as we comply with the systems of destruction, we feed a hungry beast that’s stomach never empties. By feeding this hungry beast...
Every Person Lives in Two Realms
“Our problem today is that we have allowed the internal to become lost in the external. We have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live…” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Every person lives in two realms, the internal and the external....
Being Part of Something Larger than Oneself, & the Joy it Brings
We live in a crisis of joy. Forces of darkness drain us of hope. Young people from the ghetto are sent on a failing mission straight toward their demise. Being a part of something larger than oneself is life-changing. There is great liberation that comes from...
Do What Isn’t Done
Overprioritizing individualism is killing our children. The human race is taking humanities out of schools. These are moral crimes on humanity. Leaders today are so broke in the marketplace of kindness and empathy. We cannot engineer anything to improve the lives of...
Message to the Niagara Movement Foundation
Esteemed friends of the Niagara Movement Foundation, we commemorate you for your commitment to being agents of social change. In this country, we often value things over human relationships. We use things to help us feel strong. We even think that to love...
Putting Down the Old, Picking up the New
As we chase doors to our desires of the current trending world of material, we close off the doors to true freedom and happiness. As long as we comply with the systems of destruction, we feed a hungry beast that’s stomach never empties. By feeding this hungry beast...
Commemorating Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King once said, “Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation” As a people, we must not settle with the idea that the existence of past systemic change means that social justice has been put...
Transform the Status Quo. Transform Yourself.
Dr. King urges us that we can’t teach people not to hate before we make it illegal and intolerable for them to lynch. It may seem unlikely that we will make any such political progress over the next few years. Still, let us consider our own contributions...
A Letter to Higher Education
Dear University, I am a self of other selves. I am a direct descendant of political refugees. Persecution forced my family to leave their farm and dirt roads, and survive by closing contact with those left behind. Still I have never met or spoken to most of my family,...