One of the major problems that I feel really sabotage a large number of African Americans to a great extent is our poor attitude towards education. Education in particular financial education is ultimately going to be the key to our success if we choose to build black wealth not only within our own families or for ourselves but also helping to build this in our communities.
The major beefs that I hear from other African people from all over the world, whether they are Ethiopian or Jamaicans or Africans from Africa or anywhere else, they have the impression and been lead to believe that most African Americans do not value education and do not value the opportunity that we have here in America.
They believe that we have it easy, that we are lazy, violent, ignorant, disrespectful and I have to admit that we prove them right on too many occasions. What we are doing, and how we act has put a blemish on what many of our great Black leaders sacrificed risked their life and died for.
Education is the gateway to many many opportunities but time and time again many Blacks think that just having a 9-5 job is enough. I don’t even mean just going to college and thinking that is enough because it isn’t. Education is a lifelong process and we should cherish the fact that as Africans living in America we have the chance to attend some of the best schools in the world! We take for granted many things that people around the world WOULD DIE FOR!
Look at the lives of many successful wealthy people in America and you will see that they continue year by year to improve their knowledge, going to seminars, surrounding themselves with smart intelligent people, reading books, listening to audio tapes, etc just basically investing in their education. How do you think these successful people keep their money? How do you think they can compete against the competition if they don’t have the knowledge and information to stay one step ahead of the game?
With education you can create unlimited wealth, by having the attitude of striving to be the best at what you do and having a deep amount of expertise, knowledge, and experience only then will you rise above the competition and making it into millionaire or even billionaire territory! Black wealth is only going to come when you finally decide to take back your life and strive to be the best no matter how difficult it may be. Until we all decide enough is enough the problems we face in our community are never going to get better, it takes you who are reading this to look at your life and find out what you can do to improve things. The time for talk and no action is over, I write this Blog in efforts to inspire action plain and simple. I’m tired of rhetoric from our leaders with no definite plan. Change is going to come from regular people like me and you. What I do know is we all need to stop taking for granted what we have, pick up a good educational book, learn a skill, plan your future and let’s start getting busy. In future posts I will outline some simple things we can do to further our education immensely.
