The Painters Training Audio Manual & Job Skills Map / Guide for Urban Young People

Sy Bounds has created wonderful examples of basic,Voc-Ed skills mp3 audio clips that will explain many aspects of ' House painting, home maintenance techniques & he advises the 'social folkways', that youth must understand in order to communicate in the industry. These audios reveal an alternative for some youth. This may very well be the most productive $5.00 that you've invested in a long time. A small price for this level of information! Click on all previous post & study each one.

Saturday, November 26, 2005

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This Program Should Be Available In Community Centers Classes For Willing African American Youth!

The Painter's Training Academy Coming To Your Community - Conceived in 1995 - 2012

I've held this unique, long standing model out for many years. I was acutely aware, more than 20 years ago, that the African American community should have and could have been utilizing all kinds of ways to enhance these types of innovative, practical vocational training projects and programs to help train and prepare urban youth in the Chicago area (and beyond).

This message has passed the eyes of many people over the last 20 years or so. My community missed the forest, while looking at the trees!

I have never given up hope, although it has puzzled and perplexed me for years, why so many African Americans around me, failed to grasp this vision. And the ensuing years we have lost untold youth to the streets, while so many poo, pooed this training training project. Yet, never created anything close to such a model!

I could be angry and disillusioned, yet that type of approach does not help or render solutions.

What we're here to say now, is that it's far pass time, for our local leadership (?) to place a serious focus on training our youth, and quit ignoring, what past community leadership ignored or failed to grasp.

The Honorable Booker T. Washington soberly gave our race a message over a hundred years ago. He said.....'Cast Down your buckets, where you are'. And our race / group never truly figured that statement out. Many gave lip service to it, but we never figured it out and put it to action, like we should have.

When you thoroughly read this site, your first question should and probably will be, why didn't local leadership have the vision and capacity to embrace this program. And that will be the same question that future historians will ask. Heck, aliens from another planet might ask the same question!

One thing is for sure. Sy Bounds certainly has tried, far more than most, to put this project in the Chicagoland African American Community at large. The question that future historians will surly ask, over and over again, I suspect, is why did so many, decent people stand by and allow this incredibly important, innovative, ongoing project to be ignored, minimized, marginalized, while thousands upon thousands of young African American boys and men, were standing on corners pitching pennies and other ethnic groups were busy, buy repairing, building and maintaining the very homes that African American were living in. Including those sames males and their families.

Even the clergy whom accepted donations from these poor folks, would consistently, without an ounce of shame, take those same dollars and contract repair work out to every other ethnic group available except the relatives of the very people African Americans whom made it possible for them by giving their hard earned donations.

And even the lions share of those folks giving the clergy these donations, failed to hold them accountable as to how they spent the money. Yes, indeed, we would need a nation of Einstein's , to figure such backward group thinking???

I see one particular aspect / trait in today's African American community that compells me to speak. Regardless of how off the mark our view or perspective my have been or may be, when it comes to say a Black Man. Not only is there little room for redemption, or anything near that. Our community will not admit that our judgement was off the mark, way off the mark, even if it was way, way off the mark. Black Men today are not suppose to have a second chance. And we buy into that crap , probably more than the liars whom created this type of thinking. We thru our own hands and minds now are retricting our own group future progress.

We have been marching in the wrong direction on basic issues like this project, for many years now. And we failed to assist those folks whom have been in the community, tolining, brainstorming, innovating, and developing real strategies, while most of our race were chasing the American dream, I suppose!

And I will offer this. If our race continue to disregard important projects, such as The Painter's Training Academy. And those of us, whom have designed, developed and stayed with these grossly ignored community oriented projects. Then our neighborhoods will continue to suffer, as it has, because these are massive, collective group decisions, either way you go.

To continue ignoring or not focusing our collective thoughts on this skills training project is indicative of a sick, misguided group thought that sorely need redressing. Such positions are nothning short of amazing.

Has slavery so impacted our collective sensibilities, that render our people to such denial? To me the jury is still out.

"We must collaborate and not compete with one another".

I leave each of you with that!
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