Just like Western psychological studies show that children tend to aspire to be like their parent in their home who exercises the most power, so, too, the children brought up in the communities with minority mindsets dream of an adulthood mirroring those people in society who exercise the most real power.- Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
It's no wonder then, why the children of "conscious" parents, deviate off the path. If there is no institutions being built, no profitable self sufficient economics being practiced and no positive loving social networking (not facebook) for children to express who they are, then being "conscious" is just talk. To be "conscious" in this way, expresses no power. And to be "conscious" isn't the easiest thing when as a child you feel alone with no friends. It baffles me when I see "conscious" parents not teaching their children. You don't see them at lectures with their children, you don't see them reading and talking with their children, you don't see them in the park working out with their children etc. It's as if being "conscious" is something they do, not something they are. If we don't want to continue to lose our babies to the wolves, we as a people must harness real power. Not the illusion of power. The saying "fake it till you make it" will not help us in this one.