If We Save Our Children We Save America

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 Pinckney Jr. Some may think these are great role models but personally, I do not! As the saying goes, “you tend to be who you imitate and or emulate.” (2) The only places these individuals are leading our children, is to prisons, cemeteries and down the paths of no respect and disrespect. Please, understand me; there are some great and decent rappers and sports figures in America but the negative seem to outweigh the positive. What are African Americans and all caring Americans going to do? Sit by and let our children murder one another, be murdered by opposing gangs, in shootouts with the police, molested by perverted pastors and priest, seduced by pedophile neighbors or are we going to do whatever it takes to save their lives and give them a future? Our children are not the blame for the problems they are having or the problems they are causing. Adults are!!! Young Khiel Coppin, eighteen years old, shot and killed by police in New York. He was unarmed, mentally ill and holding a brush. If you thought his death was senseless and did not have to occur, I assure you; your thinking was and is correct. Some police will go out of their way to save a cat or dog while shooting down a mentally ill teenager as though he were an Iraqi shooting at them. On the other hand, things have become so hostile until police cannot afford to take chances. The African American communities are losing more young people than other communities. Many incidents are not happening by accident or within the law. There is a campaign to rid the African American communities of its male population. If you do not believe me, do what far too many African Americans fail to do, READ!!! Some very, very valuable and life saving information that could help the African American Communities are in books and on computers. Look around. What do we seem to crave these days? Fancy cars, I-Pods, X-boxes, Playstations, expensive clothes that are excessively large We want big televisions, drugs, guns, alcohol and every man or woman with money or good looks. We waste our children’s college funds playing lottery and going to casinos. Who is selling us drugs? We are! Who is bringing drugs into the Country? Not us!!" Food for thought", The Ronald Reagan administration used African Americans to sell drugs, starting in California and spreading throughout the inner cities in order to fund the Iran-Contra War. We are still suffering from that to this day. I assure you that were just one of many incidents designed intentionally to destroy African Americans. We had better wake-up before we are put to sleep, permanently. Where will our grandchildren and great-grandchildren end up, without our help? Think about that!!! If you think it is a joke, search the internet and find out how many young people were murdered by drugs, gangs and one another in 2007. We are now in 2008 and they are headed down the same destructive paths. Until we do something positive about this, it is only going to get worse. (3) While I seem to be focusing on African American youth, I assure you my concern is for ALL children. We might be from different Races but I assure you, we are all Americans and I am fighting for America’s Children. Whether you are reading my e-mail, have in your hands one of my “Presentation Packages” or an actual book, I urge you to take this message to heart and help others and myself, “Save Our Children’s Lives” and do it with “rapid speed.” Do not let an error in spelling or a missed formulated sentence make you think I am un-educated or do not know what I am speaking of. As African Americans and as people, we have a tendency to look for reason(s) not to help instead of the other way around. God has given me a mission and has asked me to ask you to lend a hand. Everyone, thanks for taking the time to read this message. If you would like to discuss this matter further or would like me to speak to your church, organization, PTSA, Lodge, Hall or church congregation, do not hesitate to give me a call. Sincerely, David W. Johnson, Jr., Founder & President Jacqueline M. Johnson, VP & Treasurer If We Save Our Children We Save America (410) 265-0028 (Home Business Office) (410) 646-5187 ext 14 (Day Office) (410) 984-3086 (C) www.wesaveourchildrenwesaveamerica.com