TGR: Susan Taylor: Keeping It Real
"Fit, focused, organized, disciplined, and we have to have a plan"
(BALTIMORE - June 1, 2009) - In reflection on Susan Taylor's words a couple of weeks ago in DC, I am reminded that black people really have everything necessary for success. Quite often, we complain. Too often, we conclude - without even knowing it - that we cannot do something. A defeatist attitude only seeks failure.
All this to say, make today the day you do something great. Make today the day you become a blessing to somebody by first realizing the light and the power within yourself. As Marianne Williamson writes, "when you let your light shine, you unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
For me, this means that the answer to every political issue, every financial woe, every social ill and community challenge has - as Stevie Wonder sings - "a solution."
The way I see it, the most important enemy black people have is ourselves. Too often, I find us helping others but sabotaging our own efforts because of jealousy, ego, and being stingy.
Now is the time to begin to do things differently. Now is the time to help somebody close.
One would think that having served witness to the pain Hurricane Katrina wreaked in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast, black people - including us in the DC-Baltimore region - would have figured out by now that we have all of the keys to all of our issues, and that nobody can do for us what we can and should do for ourselves.
May we all elevate from the funk of procrastination and the stinch of apathy and press forward to the Higher calling.
'Til next time, be blessed.
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