Thought For Food © 2016

Samuel K
theblacksilentmajority SM


Don’t like Trump? Do something about it.
If everyone who protested, tweeted, posted, or expressed negative views about Donald Trump’s presidential aspiration actually voted against him, he would lose the November election in a landslide. But we must vote people. Talk is cheap.


Also, Trump may be our number one target, but don’t simply vote for Hillary and call it a day. She will need a more progressive Congress to appoint more progressive judges to the US Supreme Court, to pass apprentice programs, to pass infrastructive programs, etc. Be politically smart and vote the entire ballot and don’t forget to vote for local representatives and judges. The local candidates are just as important as the national candidates. Vote smart.

The Importance of Education
A recent post showed poor black children in Africa in a makeshift classroom with a dirt floor and cinder blocks as desks. They may have been poor, but they understood the importance of education. But too many of our young people here don’t get it. In the 21st Century, education is not an option; it is a necessity. History and life are replete with examples of people who started out poor, but with an education, they did well for themselves and escaped poverty.

Do some people really want to work?
So many people want to be employed. But too often, after they get employed, they don’t show up for work. They’re often late for work, and they carry out their jobs as if work is punishment.

How Blacks can progress faster
As African Americans, we devote a lot of effort and energy outward on how the efforts of others impact us. But what if we changed our tactics and strategies are started to focus more on our internal issues? Considering so many of our issues begin in the home, what if we focused more on the family and how what’s taught in the home affects homicides, unemployment, attitudes towards education, crime, and more.

Sidney Poitier
“My generation was taught that educational achievement, moral virtues, and economic organization were far more important to our development than how whites treated us or how they felt toward us.”

Rev. Jim Holley
“Too often, we buy everything we want, and beg for what we need.”

Every act has consequences, good and bad.
The City is currently holding an event to help nonviolent offenders to clean up their arrest records. For those who don’t have an arrest record, please keep in mind that every act has consequences. Think before you do even consider breaking the law. The wrong “friends” will convince you that doing a bad thing is a good thing. Bad decisions made during a person’s youth could haunt that person for life. Indeed, every act has consequences, good or bad.