Like most people do every New Year, I make plans to live better and strive to obtain certain goals. I believe the only true way to assure that the set goals are accomplished is by documenting progress and evaluating the differences and similarities (basically the concept of the Venn Diagram).
One thing that I am challenging myself to do this year is to dialogue more about issues that directly impact my very existence. This dialogue will include talking to God more, family, friends and developing more professional relationships with people who are making a difference in the world.
Last year I completed courses towards my masters degree and I thought that would satisfy my academic desires, but there is still a passionate compulsion to keep pushing toward that doctorial stratum of greatness. I heard an appealing conversation on television about this so-called new culture in America called “Black American.” I thought to myself for a minute, what could this mean? I have always considered myself a Black American…Then it hit me. In order to celebrate and empathize with this new culture of being a Black American, it means to stand for something, edify oneself, being economically savvy and to understand where you have come from in order to know where you would like to go. A Black American does not measure himself or herself by the amount of money they have, but by how they are investing it. Investing in your communities, your culture and in the prosperity of other people like you.
What’s next for me will be an array of many things. I have already started documenting and dialoguing through the use of internet blogging. I challenge everyone to take full advantage of this resource.
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