Wassup Connect Platform; how ya’ll doing? Whether it was a great day or the second Monday of the week, you’re in the place to be. Thanks for stopping by. Get comfortable and enjoy today’s tour of the Connect Platform neighborhood.
I’m struggling for words today. Folks are frustrated and angry; the air is acrid. Everywhere I turn somebody is launching or under attack. Folks, I see cyberspace and this network community as an opportunity for growth and organization unlike anything we’ve seen in the last 40 years, and once again I see us imploding. I’m saddened and I just don’t understand. In the 60’s we burned down our neighborhoods and stole from our neighbors. The rage was justified; the target was ill advised. Today we indiscriminately assassinate each other. Yeah there’s the drugs and guns, but they aren’t what I’m talking about. The things we say to and about each other; our still to pervasive crabs in a barrel mentality. The rage is still justified and the target is still ill advised.
Do ya’ll recognize this family of network for what it is? Do you see our unprecedented opening we have to build each other up? Everyday, I read blogs about God/dess an blessing and being holy, and everyday one of us snipes at another, mocks another’s dreams or worse their bared heart. I know this ain’t a Connect Platform disease; I even know in large part I’m preaching to the choir. I just see too many Black, African American, Cuban, Puerto Rican, African Nationals, Haitian people, dark skinned, light skinned, educated, religious, thug people hating on each other, and honestly ya’ll, it makes me cry,
I don’t know that what I’m saying matters a damn to any of you, but ya’ll have grown to mean a lot to me in these few days, so I’m saying it. I see us. as a community. doing a new thing. I see us walking in love, being respectful of our differences. I believe we can be the light, that we can disagree without hating. I believe we can build on our similarities, on our shared experiences. I see us celebrating and supporting our diversities; I see this, Connect Platform, community as a place where “blessed and prosperous” are more than cliché, they are made manifest. Just Sayin.
Shout Outs
“An African proverb states, ‘Before you get married, keep both eyes open, and after you marry, close one eye." Vis. Valarie D. Coleman offers practical wisdom for applying those word to daily life, in her A Soulful Relationship
The day will come when you breath your last. Have you considered what could be written in A Letter From Your Grave To You? Consider the possibilities with Dr. Ahmad Glover.
Are you wondering what to tell friends who are succumbing to the Sarah Palin deception? The Republicans have already provided the answers. Follow Freya Sullivan-Williams advice and Watch This: Fox News Hypocrisy - The Daily Show
Learn Me Something
Bob Ivory is offering scholarships for his Planning and Marketing Seminar. See his post Only the Serious Need Apply
A Provocative Question or Two
Are you esteeming yourself more highly than you should when you consider yourself a god/dess? Min. Dr. LaDonna Blaylock D.D. doesn’t believe so. See why in Goddessess Entitlement
Just Sayin seeks to offer a sampling of the best member contributions across the Connect Platform family of networks. Please stop by your network’s Just Sayin group and tell us about a new blog, video, group or network that excites you.
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