Democrats As The Minority.... How Effective Will They Perform?

I have been a student of the representative democratic process for some years now and what I have learned is that you have to be pro-active if you want to get anything done.

We just saw "pro-active" negative and regressive actions for the last two plus years as it relates to community restorative policy. I say that because it is common knowledge that bad public policy [See Dr. John Moeser's recent Poverty in Metropolitan Richmond Study presented at the Richmond Peace Education Center's Social Justice Forum ] has caused the historic gaps in how revitalization has occurred or not, especially here in the metropolitan Richmond area. We will not dwell there. My point is that we can go to several decade old policies that have not been implemented well or to some extend at all... thus the recent media saturation of attempts to address the HUD Section 3 policy. [Section 3 is a program which fosters local economic development, neighborhood economic improvement, and individual self-sufficiency.]

The "neglect" points to inaction on so many fronts but that is not the issue at hand. The issue at hand from my perspective is the authentic effort to correct where we are now. We saw how compelling a minority group [And this minority was a group of predominantly all European American men] can be, so why is there not the same compelling acknowledgement for the minority group of which is usually diversified to its very core. We have got to fundamentally know within ourselves that improvement of the least or us is improvement for ALL OF US.

So.... going forward we have to seized the opportunity to be more effective for the community... all of the community. The unity is the same whether your actions are positive or negative. I contend that the personal feelings of accomplishments outweigh to the good for the positive actions. And the outward transformation of the community benefits all. Lets give the positive actions a chance to reign.