IMAGINE Mr. Brooks

<p> I imagined, that Mr. Brooks would own a publishing house, or newspaper or magazine, and I could get a job as a writer or reporter, and my neighbor Jamal who likes to draw, would have a graphics art degree and design signs and advertisements for all the businesses, in our town that are owned by blacks, and my cousin up north in Chicago would run a manufacturing operation, he was able to start with his degree in Business Management, that made clothes designed by black designers. The factory that makes the shoes, that we all wear keeps the neighborhood employed and is a sort of place to work and get money, knowledge and training for various professions while you complete a degree or decide what you want to do with your life, which is so short and precious. </p>

<p> You can take your time and earn while you grow and learn more and more and are able to open a new location for the factory in one or two or more countries in Africa, where a lot of our lost ancestry hails from. 

MONEY

I  am visualizing a world where we can receive whatever we need from one another to do our life's work. Our young people are disappointed in our older people because we are not able to do this for them. In all this time, we have not bothered to prepare a path for them to take to pursue happiness. I think they have a point? We haven’t developed our earning potential to work for us and our families. We have not risen above and beyond the realm of worker.

MONEY

I’ve earned very little since I received my B.S.  I am one who owns nothing and I am currently not employed. I was a part-time worker for the last three years at one job where I earned 8.25 per hour working approximately 3 hours a day 3 to 4 days a week never totaling more than 20 hours over a two week period. I also worked as a part-time math tutor for about five months earning 14.00 per hour working 10 hours per week, with both jobs I earned less than 300.00 a week.  The last check I received was for 45.00.  We still work jobs for them not for ourselves and then give all of what we earn right back to them. This is why our young people are so disillusioned.

TIME

<p>Are we are not, thinking about the future?  Why? Is it impossible? Will it cost too much money, has anyone done the research?

I've read statistics that say we spend billions in one state alone every year in the United States economy.  Is it thinking too big, way out of the box to think that we could take that money and change our world?  The money keeps a line of separation among us, we get some to take care of ourselves and, we feel sorry for and maybe give a little to those who have nothing. Wouldn’t it be more effective to at least try another way, honestly, what ever we earn working could not be as rewarding as working for and focusing on ourselves as a whole for a while? </p>

TIME

<p>It seems that we are still asking the “white man”, 60+ years after civil rights, to “give us opportunities please!" What about securing our future, Asking for help is a good thing, there is not much one with or without can do without the help of others. Why don’t those of us who can think and build and create and heal and nurture and teach and train help to secure our future for ourselves by providing those opportunities ourselves for ourselves?  We have since been employed for them in their institutions, corporations, private, federal, state and local governments, where we have learned what to do to establish our selves, haven’t we?</p>

TIME

<p><h1>Timeline</h1>

In the 1950's and 1970's why didn't all of us that were educated in various fields build and develop a way for our people to have jobs and work and learn from each other so that we could sustain our selves and not have to go to the "white man" for anything? Was that the plan all along?

Maybe, it seems that we tried it, by tackling one thing at a time, with education first. Once we were educated we had to look to affirmative action after so many of us were educated, but could not become gainfully employed at a level high enough to avoid poverty and provide a secure and promising future for our children. Looking for a job was, it seems, the only way to do that. Now, we realize that that may not have been the answer.</p>

Wi-Fi

How is it possible that my own sister won't give me access to her internet connection so I can go online with my own laptop from anywhere necessary?

She said, “No, Just come over here and get on my computer.”

I'll chalk it up to, she doesn't understand how the technology works rather than what kind of sister is she, and she just finished a B.A. Degree. She truly believes she should not do this simple thing. She is obviously one of these people who believe that a computer and it's access to the internet should be, by all means necessary, guarded against.

Since I have a B.S. In computer information systems, I can tell you that her paranoia is overrated.

Is she afraid I might do something dastardly to her, or that somehow, someone, through me will do something like commit identity theft, or drain her bank account, how crass, does she really hate and distrust me instead of loving me?

I love her. If I were her and she was me I would do it for her, maybe she does not believe that.

She attends Church every Sunday and Wednesday night bible study, as well as work for the missionary board. What lack of faith and trust in the Lord she demonstrates, feeling that she has to protect herself from her own sister.

I have never done anything close to a cyber crime and I would never do anything to harm her. I don't understand this kind of thinking from someone who declares love for God almighty.

The way she is behaving towards me feels like a stab in the heart, makes me not want to go near her for fear of feeling like a criminal, not like her sister.

I am puzzled, hurt and dismayed in a way, she is like most people, not like a sister. Most people believe those of us with a lot in life not similar to theirs is just untrustworthy, undeserving of love, just wrong. In many ways she makes me feel she is not sincere about how she sees me. I can't understand why she feels this way.

She has said we were never close, that I treated her awful when we were children. She called me stupid within the last month.

Growing up, I didn't want her to hang around me and my friends, because she would tattle tell everything we did to my mother. We shared a bedroom, talking late into the night until we fell asleep. I was a spoiled child, the oldest and she must have resented that and maybe still does to this day, I guess. She is the baby of the family, I don't think I resented that, maybe a little, but I'm over it, we're just three years apart. We were children long ago.

I asked my cousin, same zodiac sign as my sister, if I could use her internet connection, and she said, “How are you going to use my internet connection and you're there and I'm here?” That told me she doesn't understand Wi-Fi either. I explained, all I needed was her username and password and she actually said “No, I'm not doing that!” I explained it was really no big deal, it would be helping me out.

Do they not realize that I can walk into their homes and get online with my own device, using the signal from their box, that they pay for every month, for free.I worked for the major internet service provider part-time in sales for about six months making me a product knowledge expert. They both were very adamant, and went on to strongly proclaim that they were,“not going to do it,” so I dropped it.

I was thoroughly put off by their behavior and treatment of me. Is it me? am I suppose to understand this from my one and only baby sister and my oldest and dearest cousin, 1^st cousin, my mother's brother's daughter, who incidentally attends Church every Sunday as well.

What do they think can happen if I use the internet connection they pay for every month that allows them to have at least 10 users on their account? Their behavior comes across as selfish, superficial and uncaring showing no love for me, considering my lot in life at the moment.

I suppose what I believe, which is, love always wins over hate, and if you believe in God, then you surely have faith that nothing can harm you in any way that cannot be dealt with in your favor, is not taught at the churches they attend, and the last time I went to church was two weeks ago.