A.A.A ( A.frican A.merican A.dolescents) Your image alone

I am an African American male and college graduate. Throughout the duration of lyfe suriving career, I gained a great deal of knowledge as to what tha key factors are that drag us to tha depths of society...... Whether derived from a cultural and or social setting, habits and ideas such as “saggin” and broken English are extracting tha beauty and power which our race possesses. Despite tha endless efforts we’ve taken to plead our case that “we’re grown,” tha situation remains tha same. However, nothing beats a failure but a try right.... Still, African American youth are unable to muster up tha energy to try and give even an ounce effort toward acting as humans being would. In a nutshell, this is sheer nonsense, stupidity and lunacy. Everyone ought to take a deep breath and analyze themselves, from time to time. Whenever anyone is among tha public and or body of people, their aim is to appear tried and true. Your image alone can write a book about you. Most will declare they do not care about their image..AKA "I DON"T CARE WHAT I MUTHAFUCK GOT TO SAY ABOUT ME" but if you do not care, you do not care about yourself. About 7 years ago, I sat in a meeting where tha speaker spoke on “saggin”. Tha speaker broke down how the word spelled backwards reads, “niggas”. When I took tha time to analyze this, it served as a revelation to me because at that time, I was doing it every day. It makes me cringe to even think I was a part of that, but this discovery is what was necessary to mold me into tha man I am today. My mother told me that my mouth can get me in trouble, but I address tha unaddressed it’s in my blood. Anytime you have tha audacity to “Judge” you’re missing something and that something is order. Additionally, when you care about yourself, you will not allow yourself to be viewed by tha world as useless or just another statistic. Often times I stare in dismay because this generation behaving this way. Another question Since when have males begun dying their hair with colors of tha rainbow? "I just was wondering" You’re a male, but this is a feminine approach in building a persona. If everyone on Earth can be categorized as women, it goes without saying this would bring imbalance am I right?. Men should reflect strength as leaders of families and their communities. As a man, you don’t ever want to be known as “soft” or “weak,” and I’m not speaking on how many one-armed push-ups you can do. You don’t want to be taken as a joke when it comes to your strength in standing for what you believe in and what is right is what I'm speaking own. When a male dyes his hair this symbolizes a lack of strength. Verbiage is essential in communication, regardless of tha language. If you cannot communicate, you are simply unheard. Some of us can speak proper English, and some can’t. However, some of those who can speak proper English are not speaking at all. They’d rather mumble and or utter sounds instead of pronouncing words correctly. If you didn’t know better, you would swear they were humming. You could classify this as ignorance, but they are fully educated on how to speak grammatically correct; therefore, that makes this idiocy. It also shows a lack of intelligence. Open your mouth and speak. The genre of music accepted today that's loved by tha many youths of today is not Hip Hop/Rap. Due to the evolution of this art form, the sound and value of this music has transformed into a platform stressing murder is perfectly fine. We are killing ourselves. Some of us males hear this music and feel tha need to act it out, which causes multiple problems including death. And you wonder where so many criminal cases come from? We must break away from negativity and prove our endowed worth. Though it may seem as if African American males are tha main source of the problem in our community, there are some females who engage in these exact same activities. Luckily, there are some ladies who do not, and strive to steer clear from this way of lyfe. Still when it comes to looking for a male companion, I have seen some of the most beautiful and intelligent women settle for less. Tha standard for what is considered “ok” or reasonable in terms of a mate is at an all-time low for African American women. People should want tha best out of lyfe, not just the bare minimum, and that relates to everything including your significant other. Why should a woman want a man who can barely speak English and wears his pants around his ankles? Some young women are not only attached to men like this but are excited by them because they do not know any better. They don’t know what a real man is. They must be introduced to how a real man behaves. In conclusion, we, African American adolescents can be so much better if we just try. I understand some are accustomed to this way of lyfe and thinking, but we have to break through these barriers. We are tha future, but as of right now, tomorrow would be a sad place to be if these behaviors continue. Just take lyfe one day at a time. We can take tha dark clouds of shame and hopelessness and turn them into rays of sunshine for a better future. It is my hope that we start to change things for tha better which is why I have written this letter to you.