It's About Time.

It's nothing anymore to hear about black males being wrongly accused, accidentally shot, insufficiently educated, and precariously employed. For a while now, black people have been getting angry about these injustices and so many more...but have relegated their conversations to their kitchens, or out back over the chessboard. Some spoke out but went unheard by the media moguls or the just plain apathetic.

But now it's time. It's time because enough generations have suffered under racism and classism. Enough black men have been squeezed out of the job market and the free market in general. Enough black boys have been subjected to instructors' low expectations of success and high expectations of violence. Enough children have been arrested and raised by parole officers and detention center wardens. Enough women have been abused by artificial cultural images of black manhood.

It's time for black people everywhere to stand and be counted. To lift their voices and be heard. It's time to stop waiting on the civil rights leaders from the 60's to come and speak for us. It's time for us to speak for ourselves and for each other.

A movement is brewing here in Chicago...really, several movements are brewing. Bblac is one of them. Our driving force is to have real conversations about various aspects of life for black men and boys in Chicago, and then gather the people to make meaningful change in Chicago for the better.

We meet every month to cover a different area of focus--seven areas in all. We begin these conversations in the meetings, but there's always more to say...and more to hear. So, we started this blog. Think of it as the first step to making some serious noise.

Keep a look out every month for a different topic of conversation...leading up to a public Town Hall Meeting to be held Dec. 8, 2007.

Let's Move. It's Time.