From Howard, co-publisher
Greetings readers of Black El Paso.com,
First off, let me start by saying thank you for your continued support in our efforts to make Black ElPaso.com, the best information webpage in the nation, if not the world. We have definitely grown and we have face may challenges and adversities since our first publication. Some things have not turned out the way we wanted them to, but when that door closed another one opened, and we were given even better opportunities on that path. Through it all we have stuck through all the things that usually cause a person or business to give up, and that ranges from lack of support from the ones that we originally felt like our strengths would channel in from, but we found that not everyone shares our dreams and ambition. That is why I am a firm believer that if you show mad love to those that can not affect your life directly, something will happen for you no matter what.
We, and when I say we I mean those of us who want a change, but do not know how to go about getting it, have to stop being “haters”. We have to stop degrading ourselves and stop trying to steal other people,s dreams. Instead, we need to start congratulating those of us who do make it or who have decided to improve their life, which in some way, will affect yours either directly or indirectly. Be happy for others, be supported of their dreams, and be a man or woman about the situation and say I am happy that he/she has made it.
Where would you be today if the first slave to escape never escaped or got caught, because another slave was ‘hating’ on him/her. Know damn well he/she had the same opportunities to escape as the one who took the chance. They were comfortable with the situation, and got complacent with their surroundings, forgetting that, not long ago they were free men and women and not captive and subject to being brutally beaten for trying to enhance their well being. The next time you hear of someone doing something great or accomplishing something, you should congratulate them and smile and thank God that He freed yet another person from their captivity. Yes, captivity…the captive mind.
You hear all the time, “The mind is a terrible thing to waste” or “An idle mind is the devils workshop”. They both have a negative outcome. If you do not improve yourself in life, then you will forever be blinded by the darkness that you have subjected yourself to live in, and if you continue in that path, you begin to allow the negativity to take over. You begin to experience the struggles of life and wonder why you have not made it, or why you can’t get or have the same things as the next person. Why would you want the same things as the other person? Why not make a way for yourself through your own dreams? We really do not want a world of drones do we? I mean a world where everyone has the same things, same car, same house, same clothes, same everything. We might as well have remained slaves because that is when we were all the same.
I am saddened by the fact that we do not do the things that our fore fathers fought so hard for us to have. It kills me to hear us say that it is someone else’s fault that this is happening, when we have not taken the opportunities in life that have been presented to us. We did not finish school, we did not obey our parents, and we wanted success faster, so we took the easy way out.
Let me tell you, the majority of the successful people in this world did not get there as easy as you believe. It took some work and a lot of thinking, but most importantly, it took the same courage as it took for that first slave to runaway and seize the opportunity that life had to offer. Oh, by the way, if you had not noticed, life has not reneged on its part by offering us opportunities. We are still waiting for life to hand it over to us or deliver it in a nice box with a big red bow on it and a tag that says, “
In the words of the two hardest working men in the music/film industry, “You got to get up, get out and something. Don’t let the days of your life pass by.”
I wish nothing but the best for all of you and I pray that each and every one of your dreams come true.
Thanks for your support and your time because if you made it to this line, you are asking yourself, “Where am I in this?” Your support will come when you tell your friend about the article you just finished reading. Believe it or not, you were inspired and helped someone else at the same time.