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I Worry About The Kids Who Have Too Much. As A Parent Living In A So-called Good Neighborhood With Children Who Went To Private High School, I Found Myself Spending Much Time In Parent Groups Worrying About Alcohol, Unsupervised Parties, And Parents Not Being Parents.

It's Deeply Rooted In The American Psyche. Black Men Have Always Been Viewed As The Other, Which Leads To A Different Application Of The Laws. The Current Laws Are An Obscenity. More Black Men Are Locked Up For Using Pot Than White Folk Are For Far More Serious Crimes.

The Declaration Of Independence Was Always Our Vision Of Who We Wanted To Be, Our Ideal Of Freedom And Justice, How We Were Going To Be Different, And What The American Experiment Was Going To Be About.

The Future Which We Hold In Trust For Our Own Children Will Be Shaped By Our Fairness To Other People's Children.

There Are So Many Noises And Pulls And Competing Demands In Our Lives That Many Of Us Never Find Out Who We Are. Learn To Be Quiet Enough To Hear The Sound Of The Genuine Within Yourself So That You Can Hear It In Other People.