The buck stops here, because ALL change starts with YOU!

Hello world. The following was written 7/03/2017.

I shared a video a couple of years ago, which had my brothers up in arms. Some were in agreement with it. Others were throwing out judgmental diatribes pointing fingers and placing blame. In reading all of the commentaries, in the myriad groups I had shared this video in, one stood out to me. It showed a brother who is truly looking for an answer and recognizing, the buck stops here in their hands. The following was the conversation which ensued.

A brother asks, “I think this is a very good video. Sound reasoning and logic. Good, objective argument.

I also see it as half of the coin. This is the symptom, the logical end result to a dynamic. I’d like to understand WHY people feel that way in the streets. People don’t feel for no reason; we need to understand that reason.

But, true, there is no denying that this is our current state of affairs. This is our reality. Fair enough. So, acknowledging reality… HOW do we repair this clearly broken relationship? Isolationism doesn’t fix anything; we can’t fix something that we refuse to interact with. Bombing people never created friendships — it only feeds deep resentment and hatred to kill someone’s family, friends and neighbors. Cowering behind walls doesn’t make anybody stronger — a single Trojan horse is all that’s needed to collapse a fear-full society from within. Denying one’s role and responsibility in a broken relationship never fixed a…