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Change Mind-sets and Empower Our Youth to Find Solutions to Current Social Problems
by: Saide Saddiq
Today’s world seems to be overwhelmed by hate, and it’s a shame that many of the most critical issues are being driven by divisiveness, ignorance, ego, and greed.
Our country is facing a major rift in power and culture, and when violence is used as a fuel for the fire, no solutions are ever found. Many of today’s problems have been faced before across generations and continents—evidence that history does indeed repeat itself—and with violence, there is no resolution.
With that said, I believe we are missing the bigger picture and we’re losing sight of the very root of all of our problems. For starters, the biggest issue is that we are overly focused on the problem, further feeding into its existence. If we begin to transfer our thinking toward an actual solution, a resolution then has room to manifest.
Now, as for an idea of how to solve many of today’s problems, seeing the unrest as the product of a national trend, we can start to counter it by educating our youth. Youth education is empowerment, and youth empowerment is key to saving our future. Our youth are the future, yet the majority of the time, young people are the ones in the breaking news. It’s a sickening trend. Our people—especially our youth—should never have to question the value of their lives.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results, and that’s all we see being done. When yet another young African American male is shot and killed by the police, all we do in a media-charged world is to start up the hashtags and then begin the protest in either violent or non-violent ways. The sum is that nothing changes.
Change will only occur when we alter our strategic processes toward a positive mind-set for solutions. We need to empower our youth with positive solutions, and then we can see a change in the world.
Saide Saddiq, 23, of Allentown, will appear as a panelist on the Channel 69 WFMZ News show Business Matters on September 7. A social entrepreneur, marketing expert, and speaker, Saddiq advocates for making growth opportunities for millennial youth available equally in urban areas and in small towns. Saide describes his mission as “seeking to change the world by spreading peace, love, positivity, and knowledge to those underserved.”
Special Thanks to Tina Bradford for sharing this article
with The Valley Ledger.
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