Let's Save Our Children’s blog

Dear Everyone: My name is David W. Johnson, Jr. and I am an Author, Poet and Motivational Speaker to adults on behalf of our children. The purpose of my message is to encourage adults to become more involved with our children so children might live long, healthy, intellectual and normal lives. Thanks to current adult neglect, our children are on paths of serious destruction. If as adults, we do not change those roads and soon, our children will not survive. Personally, I became tired of listening to the News day after day and hearing about another young child, teenager or young adult being murdered, incarcerated, molested or kidnapped. I decided it was time to do my part to change things for our children in a positive way. I cannot do it alone. Just like our children, I could use your help. We cannot sit back and ignore the problem while waiting on Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Tom Joyner or Oprah Winfrey. Young people need older, experienced adults to step-up and give them the benefit of their knowledge and wisdom. Many of us believe that our children are just hoodlums, drug dealers, gangsters, baby makers, so forth and so on but I assure you, THEY ARE NOT!!! Young people are looking and praying for the same opportunities our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, teachers, preachers, neighbors, etc., gave us. One of the problems children face today is, adults are not offering children the kind of support, encouragement and leadership they had growing up. We had Ella Baker, Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Church Terrell, Ida Wells-Barnett Thurgood Marshall, Jesse Jackson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Eldridge Cleaver and the list goes on. All of those individuals were Great and Productive Leaders and Role Models who were determined to set positive examples and show the next generation roads to a better way of life. Today’s children have Michael Vick, Rapper TI, Rapper “Da Brat,” R. Kelly, Antwan C. Carter and Daniel P...