12 Excuses Black People Make...

12 Excuses Black People  Make to Not Mentor  Black Children: I'm too busy. I don't have two hours a year!  I can't take off of work! Ever! I am working with my own children. I am busy at church or mosque! I am a teacher all day with those children so I can't be with them after school! I need money! Mentoring does not pay me.  I'm unemployed! I won't make a difference. Those children don't want to hear what I have to tell them.  It's too dangerous! Somebody else can do it better than me.  The job I have now is more important than mentoring Black children.  I mentored a child, once, in 1967 or 1987. We need mentors in Chicago because:  More than 400 people have been killed (370 by gunfire) so far this year More than 2464 people have being shot, killed or wounded so far this year Only 10 percent of Black boys at the 8th-grade level read at a proficient level Unemployment for some groups of young Black men is 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% and 70% 67% of the people in Cook County Jail and 58% of the people in Illinois Prisons are Black, mostly young Black men  Only 6 (six) out of 100 (one hundred) 9th-grade young Black men will achieve a 4-year college degree by age 26  So when I put out a call for men and women in Chicago to sign up to go into schools to mentor Black children and only 5 people showed up, then I understood why Black Americans are being run out of Chicago and out of the United States!!! The five who showed up are (left to right)  Kenneth L. White, Shimika Sumlin, Attorney Lawrence Kennon, Mosea Harris and Will Davis. Five people out of 1 million Black people in the Chicago area showed up to mentor hundreds of thousands of young Black men and women and boys and girls who are begging for support, nurturing and inspiration.  This is not going to work!  Was everyone else watching Empire?   There is still time for you to join us by calling 773.285.9600 or to meet us on Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 6:30 pm, at 3509 South King Drive, Suite 2B, Chicago, Illinois.  If you can spare two hours a year to save Black children, call us.  Phillip Jackson  The Black Star Project 773.285.9600