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If We Save Our Children…We Save America

Let 2010 “Be A Positive Turning Point For Our Children”

Re: Making A Difference In Our Children’s Lives

Greetings Brothers & Sisters (President Obama Want Change…What Do We Want?):

We are almost at the end of 2009 and there have been far too many deaths of our young people. Most, as you know were African Americans. It is beyond scary how too many of us are ignoring the deaths of our young children and adults.

Tell me adults what will it take for us to become fed-up and sincerely want to do something to help our children? Setting in my office today, I was wondering how many young people will have the luxury of sharing Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinner and live to enjoy New Years 2010, with their parents, grandparents and other family members, in the same homes, at the same tables.

To me, crime is crime and race should not matter however; in today’s society, a lot more effort goes into apprehending and convicting African Americans for crimes against non-African Americans then African Americans hurting and killing African Americans. Why, because once again, we are becoming increasingly UNIMPORTANT to this Country.

Too many of our children have no real lives and no Real Parents, Mentors and Role Models, who truly care about them one way or another. Many of them have only one parent (their mother) and that parent works two and three job just to pay the rent, mortgage, bills, cloth and feed their children. Males on the other hand are out raping old and young women, molesting children, making more babies, dealing drugs, doing time, getting shot or killed.

Police and private citizens are becoming increasingly afraid of young African American males and females. Do you know what that means? It means they are going to start shooting first and asking questions later. When our children leave home, it will be the “luck of the draw” as to whether or not they return.

Our young females are not getting the love they need at home so they are turning to teenage gangsters, drug dealers and pathetic older men. End result, they end up pregnant; their lives ruined, or deceased.

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Our young males do not have any REAL father figures, so they turn to gangs. End result, they end up in prisons or worse, morgues.

Teachers try to educate and motivate our children but end up abused by their students, their student’s parents or both. How can we expect children to respect teachers if their parents do not respect them? Education is the main key to success. Parents or Communities do not seem to care whether children succeed these days.

Driving through our streets, I am truly frustrated and angry at the negativity I encounter. When I listen to the News in the afternoons, it is heart wrenching to hear about yet another dead child. On the positive side, when I visit schools or churches during the weeks or on Sundays I am overcome with emotion at the number of positive intelligent young people I encounter. Children need positive adult involvement if they are to turn their lives around and excel.

The situations that exist for our children today are not going to vanish in thin air. Adults are going to have to be the ones to turn things around. If we do not step-up and bring about a positive change for ourselves first and then our children, the Federal Government will. There change will not be positive and we will not like the change. When the government starts building “holding pens” and a lot more prisons instead of schools and colleges, having federal troops, patrolling our streets there will be nothing we can do.

Take it from someone who knows because I read and inter-act constantly, with Representatives on Capitol Hill and in State Capitol’s. They tell me, they are growing impatient and increasingly tired of what is happening in major cities across America. You can be assured the African-American communities will be the first to feel the brunt of their impatience.

Many of us believe our children are just hoodlums, drug dealers, gangsters, baby makers, etc. THEY ARE NOT!!! Young people are hoping and praying for the same opportunities our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents gave us. One of the problems today, adults who are in positions to offer children the kind of support, encouragement and leadership they were given, are turning their backs. Those same back-turners had Great, Productive Leaders and Role Models who were determined to offer their and the next generation a better way of life through education, motivation, love and support.

If you are in positions to mentor, volunteer at schools, provide an academic scholarship or financial aid that will help our children march proudly across high school and college stages, I urge you to do so. Our communities are losing too many young people. Ask yourself this question, where will our children, grandchildren great-grandchildren, godchildren and children over-all end up, without our help?

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So let me say in conclusion, it is the responsibility of parents to be parents. It is also the responsibility of neighborhoods and communities to work for the betterment of our children. Yes, I said “Our Children” because all children are, “Our Children.” If all of us, especially parents, do not stop children from committing violence by showing them love and discipline, the police and National Guard will show them prisons and graveyards, by using nightsticks, mace and bullets.

THE CHOICE IS OURS!!! We can start turning things around for our children’s future and ourselves or continue the genocidal trend.

Sincerely,

David W. Johnson, Jr., Founder & President

If We Save Our Children We Save America

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MY LITTLE STORY

by: David W. Johnson, Jr.

Give me a moment for a little story that goes like this

The saying is, America is the land of milk and honey

Without family love, the milk and honey you can miss

Milk and honey last a short time making drug money

People are saying many American children are losers

American parents and adults can prove people wrong

If we do not help them, we are as bad as their accusers

Adults make children smart, proud, fearless and strong

It is much better when these things began with family

Children need family, role models and support programs

Bring these back and an awesome change we will see

There will be change in attitudes, respect and exams

Here is that little story I want to tell, so pay attention

There once was this child growing up without a family

His inability to be happy was beyond comprehension

Only negative things in the world he seemed able to see

Traveling down rough roads alone, in and out of trouble

Instead of helping, all everyone seem to do was use him

On a daily bases his misery and hardships seem to double

For this young child, now turning young man life was grim

When he had all but given up hope and didn’t care anymore

Along came an adopted family and positive changes began

Proof positive that it takes family love to open up a close door

Family, to Job Corp, to the U. S. Army his blessings did not end

A very true story and that young child, is this adult poet and writer

Living proof that God, family, community and love can bring glory

Adults, families, it takes love and support to make a child a fighter

Hopefully adults, you will get the message from, “My Little Story”

Let Us Join Together and Help All Children