"100 Black Women Of Atlanta" - Showing Young Black Girls The Path To Their Full Potential

(Sorry about the delay in posting this.  Blogger had an error in allowing pictures to be posted)

I have to give applause to "The National Coalition Of 100 Black Women Inc" and their scholarship banquet which I attended in Atlanta.

The featured speaker said something to the effect that the organizations job is to introduce young girls to their inner beauty and to assist them in reaching their full potential in support of the community.

I saw the entire program as a "rites of passage" that has for too long been vacated within too many of our communities.

These young ladies are on their way to various colleges throughout the country.  Their mentors in the organization did everything possible to prepare them for this journey.  Above all else their appeared to have provided them with consciousness and a sense of dignity about themselves.

I believe that more of our young people need to be "ensnared" into a system by which certain expectations are placed upon their shoulders.  With this would come a sense of boundary and focus.  The most prescient way for them to travel would be forward.