If people dont act change can not occur

If people don’t act change cannot occur Change needs to happen in the educational system where the mind is developed and perspectives are made. I propose that if the schools change they can alter the minds of our youths. However, this is not that simple to accomplish only fifty percent of African Americans graduate from high school in four years and it becomes even harder for those from impoverished families. It is more than obvious that African Americans need resources and they need a reason to want to change and excel in school. Most need a positive role model and an alternative besides jail and fast money. I believe that they either need motivation or to truly be enlightened to the point where they can understand the world and the end which is expected of them. Once they gain this motivation I feel that they will be more inclined to have a desire to work. This is why I believe that firstly change needs to occur within our educational system concerning the youth, for which they are the future.
Secondly change needs to occur in the media, simply because many people are influenced by the colors, luxuries and ideas that seem to hypnotize its viewers. If anything I believe that there need to be more advertisements and television shows that illustrate black people in a positive light. Where all people are created equal not cases in which commercials are flooded with white and a black child is placed to show that they care about the community. I believe that they should promote smaller things such as more black Barbie dolls or more African Americans in television shows portrayed doing the same role if not something much more than white people. The black community needs to believe that they do not need to be white in order to find their utopia or to feel superior they need to find self esteem within themselves.
Thirdly I believe that being black needs to be encouraged as opposed to being belittled. Shows illustrate that being pretty or beautiful in the black community means to become as white as possible. It seems as though especially illustrated by celebrities and toys that having long straight hair, or being close to the color of white makes or defines beauty. This again is psychological, and shapes the mind. These beliefs encourage people to believe that they need to conform in order to be seen as beautiful, however when this is not the case. In reality happiness should not come from conforming but from being an individual and accepting your race for everything that it is and is not.White America is still strong and well and besides the problems facing our society today there are still many more that need to be addressed. Pertaining to the work force, pay, and the ways that black men and women are treated. Oppression currently occurs more in the dark than in the light and I believe that it is worst then it was from during the civil rights movement.