Yes, We Still Can

O.K. Here's another example of if you want it it you can accomplish it, regardless of race. Hard work has always been a tool of success for me. Just speaking on my own experiences and the experiences of those that I have talked to from somewhat equal backgrounds, we all agree that if you apply yourself and know what it is that you want you can accomplish it.

Please know that I am not suggesting that difficulties such as ignorance and even some racism does not occur. I am well aware that these things are still around. The good news is that we can break down these walls with hard work. Let's not forget years ago how bad it was. I am also still aware that many things in life come with a struggle and a price. The price of success in the African American community comes with the ridicule of "trying to be white" what the heck is that This is prevalent in other ethnicity's as well, unfortunately. It also means that we will encounter ignorance from our own, (crabs in the barrel syndrome). I've learned that these things are just "growth points". I've been taught to "never allow things to stay on my mind that ain't payin no rent",or in other words "don't major in the minor". I like what Russell Simmons said,"Do You".

I've been "doing me" long enough to know that, YES WE STILL CAN. My can, goes a lil bit further because I believe that "through Christ Jesus, we can do all things". This has helped me when those who were in positions to guide me instead stole dreams by not guiding at all. Unfortunately, many of us in the inner-city have experienced the lack of proper guidance but still we found that "Yes We Still Can. Because some of us somehow found a way to make it. We had some idea that maybe if we tried, it might work, because we saw someone who we knew or at least looked like us that did. This is why when we do "Make It" we have to go back and help others even if its just by being seen. Sometimes just being there at the right time may save a young person from going the wrong way. If we don't provide the positive influence to our young brothers and sisters regardless of skin color or gender, the gangs and drug dealers and strip joints will.

Apparently Myron Rolle saw someone or had someone tell him, Yes We Still Can and he believed it. In a time where too often we see young men that look like him on the front page of news stories for something other than the Rhodes Scholar, it's good to see that he believed it enough to achieve it. He did well at football and scholastically. Job well done son. You put it in your head, believed it and then achieved it. Kudos to his parents and his support system for never giving up.

Please let this be something that we show other young boys and girls. We have to share these stories because I see too many young people who don't seem to believe that it can happen. We all have seen them. I won't get too deep but we really need to start talking things like this up. This young man had too make a decision of going to Oxford University or going to the NFL. Now he can do all of those things, Oxford,Medical field and the NFL.
My one hope is that if he decides to later go on to the NFL please go to the Redskins...Good job lil bro. Let's see some more of these stories because "Yes, We Still Can. www.security-investigativeservices.com