WAKE-UP! PEOPLE are DYING while you are SLEEPING!

Wake up!!!

People are DYING while you are SLEEPING!!!
I talked with a very knowledgeable elder this thanksgiving morning. She is the author of the book; Dr. John Henrik Clarke: His Life, His Words, His Works. Her name is Mother Anna Swanston. Mother Swanston in her late seventies and had worked with the honorable Dr. Clarke for many years. She shared with me several jewels of history which had me salivating for more of her wisdom and knowledge. Needless to say, "it was the best breakfast one could ask for on thanksgiving."
I began to question her about her take on where we are today as a people. It was then when she said something that I consider earth shaking. She said in a very authoritative voice, I would say that we as a people are asleep. Then she shouted "Wake-up! People are dying while you are sleeping!"
Her voice gave me chills. I was shaken by this revelation. Not the wake-up part, but the hoarse reality that people are literally dying while we slumber. Like sheep to the slaughter waiting their turn to meet their fate. "So, what happens to those that don't wake-up," I asked. She said in a sad voice, "they will be lost!" Then I asked, "how do we wake them or can we." She said, "Some will never wake-up, because they choose to sleep! But to the rest, we are to sound the alarm and they will come around."
Then what I asked. Then she said, "it is breakfast time. It is time to feed them wisdom and knowledge." I said, for what end? She said, "that they shall know!" Then I said, "Know what?" She said, "Who they are, where they have been, and where they can go!"
This early morning breakfast has had a dramatic effect on me. I am awake, I have been fed, and now it is time to sound the alarm. "Wake-up People! Wake-up! People are dying while you are asleep."
Of course, this is a call to action. So I asked her, "what do we do once we are awake?" She said to me, "what did the children of Israel do when after forty years?" I had to realize that it had been forty years since Dr. King had pointed us to the promise land. But it took them forty years of the desert before they had to determination and the will to cross over into their promise land.
But first we must first get them awake.
I believe that God always has a ram in the bush. I believe this ram is Michael Baisden! He has the press ear and the people's trust. I believe that the Jena 6 rally was the first alarm to go off but more importantly is the fact that people are awakening. Sounding the alarm is not a one person thing, but a awake person thing. Michael Baisden has and is dong his part, now it is up to the conscious to keep that "Bell" ringing. We keep the bell ringing by seeking out, speaking out, and standing out! Seeking out, the truth which is wisdom! Speaking out, when we are given a death ear! And, standing out, as a visual awareness to let those around you know you stand for what you believe. The most important way to keep the "Bell" ringing is for each of us to ring it everyday. The way we ring it is to support those that support us. Spend where you stand out not where you are the invisible man or woman. Support the leaders and those on the front lines in order for them to continue to do what they do. I have often heard the phrase, "the revolution will not be televised. Well I beg the difference. First of all, the revolution is not one in it usual sense but simply to process of revolving to ones next level.