Black Teens, Imagination, The City of Detroit and Not an Impotent Degree from Spelmans and Morehouse

To the Black community: Where are Black teens on innovation and entrepreneurship?  Where is the major monetization of trends, habits and facts of Black Urban Culture?  Instead of the stale and practical-irrelevancy of go to college and stop the violence idealistic impotence, Black teens should be urged to find creative and ingenious manners of capitalizing on ideas which in turn becomes the lattice jump off for Black economic infrastructural development.

The City of Detroit is a text book case.  Detroit since the 1970's has been for all practical purposes a Black city, with it's abundance of Black teens.  It is an outrage that Black economic dynamism is hubbled, shackled to the "I Have a Dream", the McDonald's Black History month Big Mac pitch celebration, "I Am Somebody" template which Detroit is its eye-sore.

The constant criminalization of Black teens manners of expression whether by well intended or insidious craftiness is a canker that must be exorcised.  Black teen expressions should be allowed as all other cultures do their youth, with margins for failure and triumph.  Black teens should be tasked with developing their imagination and enabled to imagine and the forgiven environment of support when such is at odds.

The objective environment, notwithstanding it's many contradictions and antagonisms should not only become an experience of sanction to the Black teen.  But it is dynamic, creative life, the world and the first and foremost tool required and necessary to lay claim is imagination and not impotent degree from Spelman and Morehouse.

By Apropos