In Honor of Black History Month

To often we allow time to slip right past us and before you know it, its too late, you have regrets, you can't turn back....

Don't allow the rest of February to go by and you haven't taken a moment to honor our race. In this modern day world, we seem to consume so much of our selfishness that we lack recognition for the things that we do, the accomplishments we made and the knowledge we once knew. Don't let another day go by, don't let another story be untold about how blacks played a part in our lives, in our past, in our present and the future.

I'm an guilty of being too busy and allowing it to near the end of the month without using my full potential to capture the moments, educate myself, and share my experience with my friends and family. The great thing is its not too late to do so and you don't have to beat yourself up. Join me in honoring the Black Family Pledge. I found this online and can't quote who wrote or was inspired to write this, but its all for good and I wanted to share.

THE BLACK FAMILY PLEDGE

BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors,our children no longer give us honor.
BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors cleared kneeling in perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way.
BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors, our children cannot pray.
BECAUSE the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing, our children cannot hear us crying.
BECAUSE we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering, our befuddled children give birth to children they neither want nor understand.
BECAUSE we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our gates, and holds us up to the mirror of the world shouting, "Regard the loveless" Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters.
We ARE our brothers and sisters.
IN HONOR of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues,and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation, we make this pledge.

Will you too join me in making this Pledge?