We must be our children's voices. We must speak for them. We must vote for them. Too many of our children's needs are ignored, and they are growing up in a void, creating their own rules, their own families. Love is not a privilege, but a natural right.
Every child has a right to be loved.
We need to turn around those grim statistics, so that no black child is born into poverty, so that every black baby has a chance at life, and every black child graduates from college. Each child is a gift from God, and God has given us a responsibility to prepare our children with the skills and the values and skills they need to one day lead our community. Last week marked the first anniversary of the Million Man March. Let me say that I am not a supporter of Louis Farrakhan. I find many of his views offensive, and his rhetoric too divisive.