WILL We Be Receptive To The "New Knowledge"?

I am always looking for ways to impact understanding and today I was impacted by something New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this morning on Meet The Press with David Gregory.

The exact phrase I do not have but what I am taking away from his discourse is the importance of teaching the "ability to absorb and I will go further and say implement new knowledge" in our everyday lives.

We say and ask questions everyday concerning relevance and a whole host of instructional statements about why this or that, but at the end of several days we must build upon acquiring new knowledge and how we use it not only in this global economy but this fast paced global economy.

I believe now more that ever that the currency for prosperity in this fast paced global economy is "Relevant Education... New Knowledge" if you will and its benefits.

We ask for change ... we demand change and then as change is happening we want to go back to this... "this is not what I am use to", "we have not done this before" or some other tired statement that entrenches stagnation.

It is imperative that we accept reality and do the best with what we have NOW.. not what we use to have or what we want to have.. the bird in the hand thingee....

The good thing about critical assessments rest with our REALITY PEOPLE.. JUST PLAIN OLE MATHAMETICAL REALITY.....

Tomorrow, noted author and professor Michelle Alexander will be in Richmond to lecture on her book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". I have not read the book as of yet but the shear title alone pierces my consciousness to the point of a must see event.

The question for me with the new knowledge aspect of her lecture is when given this critical assessment of facts, will we humble ourselves to accept the truth without judgement and work toward correcting the miscarriage of justice the seems to continue to play out in too many cycles for me.

I do not want another mother's son to feel compelled to take the life of another mother's son.

LET US BECOME AUTHENTIC and CONSISTENT IN OUR EFFORTS TO TRANSFORM OUR COMMUNTIES GOING FORWARD.

Priest-in-Chief - Ink Fruit

- from Terrance Jones' Ink Fruit Blog

Yesterday had to be a tough day to be a current or former commander-in-chief.  National and global media outlets across the globe were tuning in to Manhattan to witness at least some portion of the memorial service of the victims who lost their lives in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the New York City, Arlington, Virginia, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.  I think it's fair to say that a large portion of the viewers, whether they were at Ground Zero, watching on television, or listening on the radio were a little anxious about how it was all going to go down for [encouraged] reasons.  Former President George W. Bush most likely had a heart that weighed a ton as he looked over hundreds of onlookers and being aware that millions of others recognized that his Administration was stained with this horror.  And the the current leader of the "free" world may have shared a similar burden; knowing that this was the America he inherited.  Yet as I watched the openings of the ceremony, our president did something I found to be admirable.