{"id":2090,"date":"2007-07-04T16:59:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T16:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanschara.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2021-07-30T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:08:54","slug":"traveling-to-the-promised-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/traveling-to-the-promised-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling to the Promised Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read two books recently, The Leader of the Future 2<\/em> and Who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Afraid of a Large Black Man<\/em>. As frequently happens, two different books have crossed ideas and provided insight.<\/p>\n

The Leader of the Future 2<\/em> is an anthology of leadership articles. One article, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Anchoring Leadership in Adaptive Progress,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d written by Ronald A. Heifetz hypothesized it took Moses forty years to, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bring the children of Israel to the Promised Land not because it was such a long journey, but because it took that long for the people to leave behind the dependent mentality of slavery and generate the capacity for self-government.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

In Who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Afraid of a Large Black Man?<\/em>, Charles Barkley interviews Jesse Jackson. Barkley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book explores the current state of being black in America and how to improve the situation. Jesse Jackson highlights the historical context of the situation. When this nation achieved it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s independence in 1776, we were 157 years into slavery. At the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865, slavery had been the law of the land for 246 years. Then, until 1954, Jim Crow was the law of the land. As of 1954, our nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s law <\/em>was for racial supremacy. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 334 years.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2007. Fifty-three years later we expect 334 years of legal and cultural racial supremacy to be erased? Folks, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re wandering in the desert. We have a ways to go before we achieve the Promised Land<\/strong>. This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a black or a white issue. It isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t problem for only one race to solve. While fewer and fewer people alive today enforced or participated in the law of racial supremacy, our culture is still adapting to the legal environment that changed in 1954.<\/p>\n

In 1776, this nation embarked on a journey President Ronald Reagan dubbed, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the only true philosophical revolution in all history.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This revolution changed the very concept of government to mean government only has the powers granted to it by its people. We got a lot of things right when our forefathers framed our constitution. We got a few things wrong but created a way to correct errors. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re living through the aftermath of the damages of getting human rights wrong. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been wandering a wasteland for centuries. It took us that long to realize we wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t reach the Promised Land unless we welcomed all people for the journey.<\/p>\n

The first step to solving a problem is to recognize you have one. The Civil Rights Movement highlighted we had a problem. Many people believed the steps taken to begin righting those wrongs solved the problem. We lost sight of the long journey ahead. We thought the first Oasis was the destination. We camped there, thinking all would fall into place. As a result, many people believe \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all that\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is behind us. More people realize that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the case, and soon, others will realize \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Oasis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is wanting. As more people become aware that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still wandering in the desert, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll use the tools available to us to create a map with alternate routes to reach our destination.<\/p>\n

The Leader of the the Future 2<\/em> and Who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Afraid of a Large Black Man?<\/em> have provided us two Global Positioning System points to help us locate where we are in the desert. To know where you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going, you have to know where you are. This is a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read two books recently, The Leader of the Future 2 and Who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Afraid of a Large Black Man. As frequently happens, two different books have crossed ideas and provided insight. The Leader of the Future 2 is an anthology of leadership articles. One article, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Anchoring Leadership in Adaptive Progress,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-progress","tag-promised-land"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15261,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/15261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}