Geo's Prescription?:

We have a captive audience in the schools. Youth ages 4-18 are required by law to attend public school. Grab them there, hold on tight and don't let go until you have Barack Obama.

I love the burgeoning Charter School movement because the curriculums can be tailored to suit our needs.

In most major cities the dropout rate for black youth is over 40 percent. If the schools were nurturing our children accordingly that number would be significantly lower. The current public school curriculum and the administering of it is not capturing the imagination of our children, it's not challenging them and it's not identifying and cultivating their individual talents. There's just not enough appeal there to reach our at-risk youth. Not to mention the fact that our children are on the bottom of the totem pole with regard to math and science especially as compared to South Asian schoolchildren, for instance.

Where in the Curriculum Bible does it say that a four year old cannot arrive at school Monday morning and eat a fruit salad from the student run organic produce garden on the school grounds, then scamper off to math class, 2nd Line over to music class, bolt to the driving range to hit balls for an hour, back to the garden for lunch, burn off that salad in art class and maybe end the day splitting atoms or something in science class.

We have got to take matters into our own hands. The system has failed us.

Once we hearken back to the pre-Brown vs. The Board of Education days and start molding Kings and Queens again things will start to fall back into place. Or at least I hope.

My President is Black

...My Lambo's blue....

The wait is over y'all. Our ship has come in. It's a done deal. Now what? Well, for those of us who voted for Obama because he's black, I have good news! He'll still be black four to eight years from now. For those of you who voted for the man because you believe he can fix the economy and the quagmire in the Middle East (and he did claim he could), I have bad news. Not even a consortium featuring the likes of Harry Houdini, David Blaine, David Copperfield and the Amazing Kreskin can fix this economy and bring peace to the Middle East. Y'all gon' stay disappointed. Barack will attack the economic downturn and the Middle East crisis like all Presidents have and will. Nothing to report here.

So what should we (the whole wide world) expect to harvest from this Obama presidency? I say brainpower. As a black man of 43 years I'm old enough to grasp the concept of the "lost generation". Witnessing Obama's ascendency has undoubtedly left an impression on even the most downtrodden of we, but what will become of it? Instead of pie-in-the-sky pipe dreams of an Obama presidency that cures all economic and geopolitical ills, let's ignore politics and look at this thing from its most rudimentary level. How can an Obama presidency enable Black Americans to corral those of the lost generation, bring them back into the fold and encourage them to reach their potential? Y'all know who I'm talking about. I'm talking about the prisoners, the deadbeat dads, the teenage babymamma baby making machines, the 40 ounce bottle of Malt Liquor club, the crackheads, the High School dropouts, the armed robbers, burglars, carjackers and rapists, the cheese-eating uncle toms and thomasina's and those like me who don't necessarily fall into any of the aforementioned categories but who squandered opportunity after opportunity to really maximize their God-given abilities. There's enough brainpower there to cure cancer in a month. It's not too late for us to regain that wasted potential.

We've got the next four years to right the ship. Our ancestors introduced the world to religion, ALL the sciences, monotheism, family life, etc. The list of inventions by Black inventors is mind-boggling. They still haven't figured out how we built the pyramids. I could go on and on. We have the potential, we have the aptitude and we have a shining star as an example of what we can achieve outside the realm of sports and entertainment. So let's stop praying for Barack to whip out a magic wand and let's embrace the idea that 'Yes We Can' become Kings and Queens again. All of we.