Dr. Umar was featured in the classic Hidden Colors documentary series. If you are still confused as to why we need the school hes building for our youth, then check out the trailers I posted. Send your donations to DrUmarJohnsonSchool today!!! Also, URGENT NEWS UPDATE on our fundraiser for the school: St. Pauls college is going back up for auction in 9 days! We no longer have until 21 Aug to raise the funds needed to acquire this campus for the establishment of the first ever Frederick Douglass Marcus Garvey RBG International Leadership Academy for black boys. With African-Americans alone having a multi-million dollar buying power, theres no reason why we cant pull together and send in a love gift to secure our childrens future. Many of our overseas African family have already sent in their donations in support of this endeavor as well, so working with our global African family, our buying power is in the multi-billion dollar sphere. And that alone is one of the major reasons why so much energy is put into making sure we are divided as a ppl in so many different directions and over the most trivial things! We must pull together at this moment in history to lay down the first stone towards unity. I, myself, have enough friends in my Facebook circle alone that if we all sent in at least $20 we could move us much closer to our goal. $50 would be better. Your BEST love gift would be the best investment into our community. Ive already sent in 2 of my best donations this month and am about to send my next one! Many of us invest weekly into churches, mosques, temples and all of the various social fraternities and sororities we belong to and tho many of them do great works, many of them also leave us wondering how or even if our investments are being used outside of these social groups and into the community. With the many worship temples and lodges and frat/soro houses, there should not be as many homeless, jobless, orphaned, abused and lost ppl in our black communities across the nation and the globe as we see today. Many years ago these institutions were much more than weekly social gatherings. Churches were places you could go if you lost your job, or needed a loan or had social and community concerns. We didnt just pray for things to happen. We got out of our comfort zone, rallied together and without question, rolled up our sleeves and created the changes we wanted. Someone needed a job, we found him or her one. Someone needed a place to stay to get themselves together, we got them one. Someone needed groceries, we got together and bought them more than enough. Someone had a court date, we all showed up in support as a community. Nowadays everyone is left to find their way in life alone. We only help those ppl who share our particularly denomination or social ideology. Sometimes we dont even go out of our way to help them! We drive by and see our fathers struggling for work to build and provide, we see our mothers in despair over food to feed her family, we see our babies neglected, our children overdosed in special education, our teens being pushed out of school with excessive suspensions and expulsions, our young men dying in the streets b/c we have no jobs for them and no one else wants them, our young women lost and loose out on these corners trying to survive while the rest of us go through timeless rituals, clapping and singing about the day when the Lord will come back and fix it for us. Dont you know that you and I are the extremities of the Creator!!! Everything thatll ever get done FOR us will get done BY us b/c The Almighty works THROUGH us. God is not a genie in the sky. Nor did The Divine ever say for us to pray only. Far too many of us are “praying” for solutions and answers, and then simply living in that prayerful mode, with our hands clasped and our eyes tightly shut, waiting on God to supernaturally give us the specific answers that will remove our challenges as a ppl. That is not a purpose driven life! We are called to pray ALWAYS, but in the words of Frederick Douglass, we ought to pray with our legs, meaning God works through our active participation. Malcolm X defined struggle as having no community behind us. Its as simple as that. Think of anytime you experienced struggle and we can all agree that in all of our varied experiences, it was a struggle b/c we had to do whatever needed to be done alone. That is unacceptable! We are lacking in both programs and the ppl willing to invest real time into the lives of others outside of our worship and social circles. But this leadership academy is a REAL chance to scoop our boys off the streets and give them a proper academic education free from marginalization while being taught the necessary skills needed to be individually and collectively successfully in life, the knowledge of self and spiritual attunement so that they can navigate life as leaders, each one graduating high school with both a diploma and a learned trade of their choice (barber/cosmetology, electrical services, plumbing, website/graphic design, welding, maritime training, pilot certificate, etc.), thus making college an option and not a necessity to have a quality life, all of these things and more so that they may be the builders of and providers for our community. Church is good. Prayer is better. But wheres the fellowship? Wheres the community? Where are the movers, the shakers, the builders, the warriors, the teachers, the leaders, the doers and the by-any-means-necessary-not-scared-to-try way makers? Gather your nickles and dimes, send $20 or more if you say you care about cleaning up our community and our ppl en masse. Click the link in my comments section to send your online donations or mail a check or money order to: FDMG C/o Dr. Umar Johnson PO Box 6872 Philadelphia, PA 19132 Remember, we only have 9 days from today to raise these funds. Please share this post on your pages and all of your social sites, websites, community gatherings and events, share it with your family and friends and help us get the word out in your local communities as well. In the ever-living words of The Honorable Marcus Garvey, Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:35:40 +0000
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