Lack of Power and the Need to Create Change

[Markezeh]

I was just thinking how does a young man like me and many others like me out there who want to make a difference in the lives of our people and help to chart our collective destiny onto the right path, but r unable because we lacked the one thing necessary to achieve positive change for our race, and that is power.

The power to impact the education system so that it can correct the psychological damage of slavery that continues today as an invisible open wound on our heads. It is what is responsible for the bleaching epidemic, the Black on Black violence and the inability of our people to rise out of poverty en mass. We have been miseducated over the recent centuries until today. Clear examples r: our people r being taught an history that begins with slavery, our people r still being taught that Christopher Columbus discovered something when he discovered nothing. When teaching maths to children its African origins r ignored, when teaching history Kemet (Egypt) is ignored, Hannibal of Carthage is ignored and the list goes on and on. How can we blame those that come out of that system for hating themselves to the point where they will bleach themselves or try to kill those who look like them.

The power to change the economic system from one where wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few while the majority struggle to find food to eat; to where economic growth is measured by how much people come out of poverty and not by how much the rich have gotten richer. This current system continues to put Blacks at the bottom of the economic ladder no matter where in the globe we r to b found. We need a change in direction - one of economics of the masses, not of the few.

If the political system wasn't corrupt and our politicians corrupt, I might have had the power to positively influence, a chance to effect change but alas I have no money. No money to contribute to politicians so I get no representation, we all know the poor don't get any representation because its votes that win elections but its money that gives you a voice, yet its the poor or unrepresented that vote the most frequently fooled to believe that they must continually eat the scraps off the powerful's table.

In these circumstance, someone tell me how would you create change?