I have to say I’m very proud of the strength of diversity shown yesterday by all Americans, but especially White Americans, who showed out in force in places like NY, Seattle, and other cities. Maybe there is hope for America when mostly “younger” Whites – as well as those in their 20s and 30s — are showing up to protest the police murdering Black men, especially those who are unarmed.
CNN reported that there were protests in over 150 cities. I also believe many of these protestors were part of the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
Obviously, the power of social media was the primary factor because the Mainstream, Lamestream media said nothing to encourage people to take to the streets and protest.
However, when you want to believe youth, White youth in particular, “gets race-ism,” more so than their parents – you then see picture after picture of White college students in “Blackface,” doing Compton parties.
Go figure?
Will most “older” White Americans have an issue with their White daughters bringing home Black boyfriends? Maybe? Are mainstream Americans overcoming their implicit or explicit bias regarding how they view Blacks? Maybe? Maybe not?
Nonetheless, thousands of diverse Americans showed up and showed out yesterday and I’m proud of them.
Maybe America will become the Melting Pot it always claimed to be? I hope so.
My name is Walter Hilliard III. I have a B.S. degree in Public Administration and a Masters in Psychology (specialty in Media Psychology). I’m currently seeking publishers for a book focusing on Black Self-Destruction and two inspirational eBooks, having already published a multitude of articles in several different newspapers and magazines over the years. I’ve been a head basketball coach on the high school and college level, and taught success classes at a private college, created numerous community and college programs focusing on leadership, mentoring, college awareness (for inner-city kids), and employment and training. And I have worked as an employment and training manager, family therapist, behavior specialist, college retention specialist, juvenile detention center treatment supervisor, and a contractor, facilitating relationship and marriage education groups for couples.
The purpose of Universal Soul Power is to confront negative media messages about African Americans, proliferate positive messages about the Black community, and inspire all those who are part of the universe, but especially African Americans, through my inspirational writings.
The truth is that most African Americans haven’t lost their Spiritual Souls, yet (although some of us behave like we’ve lost our minds), but we have lost our “Soul” — that NewRhythmandBluesyContemporaryHipHopSoul that allows us to be compassionate, productive leaders who recognize what really matters in life and live our lives beyond fad terms like “Swag,” instead embracing more fulfilling concepts like being Calm, Cool, and Collected, and knowing what they are all about: being your “growing self,” dancing to your own Life Drum, in tune, on beat, unfazed by fear, and leaving the world a better place when they move on.
Now dat’s Real Soul, and dat’s whatum talkin’ ’bout!
Walter L. Hilliard III
