"Yes We Can"

• I began to post a minor opinionated sentence on a status statement of my current mood on my Facebook profile. After watching the Barack ‘Change’ video suggesting, “Yes we can,” from a few young celebrities, I began to think back on early in the day on the taping of the Verb Attitude Hour. The discussion of today’s taping of the broadcast for the Verb Attitude Hour focused solely on, ‘empowerment versus apathy,’ for students on college campuses. I then reflected on the topic of the video and began to relate the two issues facing me in my own life as an American in today’s society.

I think everyone comes to a milestone in their own life, which makes them connect reality and bridge a page between fiction and truth, between living as a robot or a droid or a true nonconformist, and between propaganda and cracking the secret code to a legendary conspiracy. It is very few among us who realize and rationalize the truth that America is at a battle ground that we are at a point to fight or give up. Do we fight to keep our freedom or let the liberties be taken away from us by our conservative fellows who wish to speak that religion is the sole defining factor that Katrina killed thousands and that 9-11 was brought on by what God allowed to happen, since after all it is America who persecuted the Iraq Muslim Nation. Or is it in fact the Bush Administration who chooses to let Condi go to a Comedy Club the night before Katrina and buy shoes? Or is Bush who did not follow-up on The Al-Qaida threats made during the Clinton Administration? Who is at fault and who tells the truth? Is it the Southern Baptist Conservatives who blame Clinton for not informing Bush for the Pre 9-11 Threats? Or is it the Southern Baptist and Pentecostal Liberals who shall say that it is Bush who is at fault for not taking preventive measures to investigate the threats. You pick, be my guest!

I know that in all of us….Real and True Americans who wish to seek and recite the truth., We shall rise up and establish a common identity found in the Obama ‘mechanism’ to empower the youth to say…..”Yes We Can.” Obama is a modern catalyst, a returning Greek philosopher who so eloquently questions mediocrity and strives to empower us to make change by focusing on how we incorporate superiority to what once existed, in the American Majestic Bureaucracy. What once existed is hardwork and a nation since the Roosevelt Government gave Americans a basic quality of life….food, shelter and clothing.

While we are out saving Georgians now, how do we save our own children who die of a bad cavity due to insufficient dental insurance…or even more how about our minorities who are disadvantaged and live in generational poverty and sale drugs in the illegal market to make ends meet for their offspring because that is what their mothers and fathers did to keep, “food on the damn table.”

Is this the life you want the next three generations of your children to encounter, if not, you should have answered yes. Whether you it admit now or thirty years from now, what you do now will affect the next two generations of your family. So as the commonality suggests, “What you do for our children now, will affect them, later.” So why not keep running up the National Deficit, create a larger scarcity of basic resources, and increase taxes. We do not need to increase the minimum wage, no, why do that?

So when bread is 10 dollars a ‘pop’ ten years from now at $ 5.15 an hour you better work two hours to pay for bread and work another 5 hours to pay for a $25 dollar gallon of milk. You think this outlook on the prediction of future prices seems unbalanced or extreme, look back at the last 40 years when bread was at 10 cents a loaf and now is at almost at $2.00 even at Save-A-Lot, which offers a generic brand of grocery items, nationally.

So, when I look at empowerment and the American credence of mediocrity, and the generational habit of becoming followers instead of hardworking leaders, I challenge you and yours to empower thyself to make change happen in your lives. Go and educate yourself. Do not go as far as the movie V for Vendetta, however, Walk down a public housing, “ghetto,” walk along the MLK BLVD, Go to an inner city public school and observe the difference between a private education and a pubic education, walk in a free health clinic and exclusive private medical practice. Tell me, what you see when you leave these fine places, like the free health clinic in Hitch Village and the Private Medical Practice on Jonny Mercer. I attest it will not be to your liking.

In conclusion, I challenge for you to empower yourselves, empower your family, empower your community, empower your region, empower your state and empower the great American People of this excellent nation. Empower yourself to say, “Yes We CAN!”