- Sep 7, 2009
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I've noticed that positive threads don't generate much response or positive feedback.
It seems we would rather talk about things that divide us rather than uniting around efforts to develop and implement solutions. It seems we would rather talk about how bad White people are rather than how good we are. It seems we would rather talk about what they tore down in the past rather than what we can build in the present and the future. It seems we would rather focus on how bad the criminals among us fair rather than on our productive & positive young people who avoid the criminal justice trap altogether by avoiding crime. If given a choice between a conversation on developing more Black business leaders and CEO's or justifying or defending drug dealers we expend more energy justifying the drug dealer. Building strong and sustaining relationships of our own or criticising the relationships of those who's choice we do not elect for ourselves, we expend the energy on criticising rather than building. We would rather debate religion and dictate to others what is RIGHT for them as opposed to directing our energy towards the spiritual path that's right for us.
We consume so much of our energy on controversy rather than unity, tearing down rather than building, justifying negative as opposed to developing positive, defending wrong rather than encouraging right. If we want things to change, we have to change.
In the battle of Positive Energy Vs. Negative Energy, we only have so much energy available to us, we get to decide how to focus the energy available to us.
Controversal threads go on for pages upon pages where as positive threads typically peter out within a page or two. Do we really expect to generate positive results while focusing on negative conditions.
I am not suggesting that we turn a blind eye to hurdles and opposition, but that we simply put the lions share of our energy, time, effort, discussion on building, developing, growing, improving and reaching our potential
It seems we would rather talk about things that divide us rather than uniting around efforts to develop and implement solutions. It seems we would rather talk about how bad White people are rather than how good we are. It seems we would rather talk about what they tore down in the past rather than what we can build in the present and the future. It seems we would rather focus on how bad the criminals among us fair rather than on our productive & positive young people who avoid the criminal justice trap altogether by avoiding crime. If given a choice between a conversation on developing more Black business leaders and CEO's or justifying or defending drug dealers we expend more energy justifying the drug dealer. Building strong and sustaining relationships of our own or criticising the relationships of those who's choice we do not elect for ourselves, we expend the energy on criticising rather than building. We would rather debate religion and dictate to others what is RIGHT for them as opposed to directing our energy towards the spiritual path that's right for us.
We consume so much of our energy on controversy rather than unity, tearing down rather than building, justifying negative as opposed to developing positive, defending wrong rather than encouraging right. If we want things to change, we have to change.
In the battle of Positive Energy Vs. Negative Energy, we only have so much energy available to us, we get to decide how to focus the energy available to us.
Controversal threads go on for pages upon pages where as positive threads typically peter out within a page or two. Do we really expect to generate positive results while focusing on negative conditions.
I am not suggesting that we turn a blind eye to hurdles and opposition, but that we simply put the lions share of our energy, time, effort, discussion on building, developing, growing, improving and reaching our potential