Livin’ On Purpose The struggle continues not because we have made no progress, it continues because we operate in a political system that constantly generates inequality. We must be diligent in our efforts to run the race and pass the baton. Any progress we experience is forever in peril and every moment we spend in comfort escalates the threat to succeeding generations. Our path to progress is cemented with the coagulated blood of those who came before. Our political realities are less clear when we lose focus on the fact that we are solely responsible for the what happens in our communities. The African proverb “ The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people” can not be more appropriate. We should not advocate Black History Month for some collective narcissistic effort to make ourselves feel good, it should be a tool that we use to assess our current reality and inform our collective trajectory. It should not be unstated that the struggle also continues in part because we tend to not learn from the past but instead subscribe to a shared two-part delusion. The first part of the delusion is that we are better off then we are, and the second is that there is little we can do to change our reality, both are unequivocally untrue. Black History month provides annual opportunity to assess the meaning of the struggle and a measurement of its progress. While on occasion the process may appear to be superficial, it is never useless, irrelevant or meaningless. We move forward because the struggle continues…… 42
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