Before I begin one must realize that a younger mind does not mean a mind that is without wisdom, it only means the younger mind has less experience to cultivate that wisdom into action or change.

Have you ever heard of the "Pink Team"? Well, during Ronald Reagan's reign as dictator (or president, whichever one gives him the power of Reaganomics) the "Pink Team" was a team that helped him facilitate drugs out of Nicaragua and into the hands of impoverished (and mostly black) youth in America.

It seems they wanted it to help with the impossible destruction of our people on Earth, this seemed like a sophisticated version of the Tuskegee Experiment and an even more sophisticated version would be AIDS (Americas Idea Of Discouraging Sex.) What does this have to do with youth like myself?

Think for a minute, a friend of mine has been in jail now for more than a year for selling crack, a substance originally from the government and now they want him in jail for more than 10 years. When times get rough (in terms of making money and keeping the money around) one has to work hard to obtain the necessities that every human is entitled to in the current world economy. All to often that hard work does not have any immediate effects and the lure of making a quick dollar overtakes many people.

The "Pink Team" and the rest of Reagan's cronies took advantage of the situation in the local hoods (and mostly inhabited my people of color) of the world. You may say, "Those drug-dealers and gangs should know the value of hard work. "They DO know the value, but all of that disappears when a hungry sibling or child cannot be fed and a parent cannot pay the bills.

Gang members and drug-dealers do not wake up in the morning at 5 years old and say: "Mom I want to sell crack and shoot other black men when I get older!" The media often displays that depiction. Any person who is in a situation that presents adversity in life will try to make it out the best way they can, some take the traditional route of hard work and elbow grease while others look at the quick profits, and obtaining the quick profits may mean something illegal.

The "Pink Team" put the drugs (cocaine in particular) in the hands of the youth and the epidemic just grew out of control, just like Reagan hoped it would. It is a cycle, hard times lead to harder choices, though the choice chosen may be negative, the gratitude of feeding a family is immeasurable.

That is how the government in America wanted it to be, they are VERY afraid of the strong black male, look at how they helped in the coup against the Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah, he was not even a dictator, he posed a threat to Euro-domination in the world, so they took him out and established a puppet government.

The fact that the drugs were in the hands of many young black males like myself were glorified and sensationalized by the government and the government made statistics as well as the media and the fact that the government was the largest (and still is) drug pusher in the world, only many of those drugs masquerade as foods and medicine.

Amongst other things is the fact that since sex is routinely advertised as a job in the current world media, that people have been programmed to partake in it for the physical pleasure above anything else.

I have another friend who is going to be a father in a few months; the only thing is the fact that I am older than he is (he is 16). I gave him a list of GOOD books (not that Dr. Suess crap, or any other "children's book" that does not have realism) that I felt would be beneficial to him as well as his child as he read to the child. I asked him if he even considered that she would get pregnant when they had unprotected sex, he bluntly stated, "She said she wanted to have my baby."

That statement got me thinking, did she really want to have his baby or did she just want the feeling of making one? I did not know, but what I do know is that when I speak to a few other males my age they seemed to be fixated on the sexual experience with a particular woman just because she is aesthetically pleasing.

Some may say that this is typical behavior; I doubt that, this behavior seems to be a behavior taught to a person not inherited. Like many other things, sex has started to become a problem when it is undertaken without protection and a thought for the consequences. I am not saying "do not have any sex", what I am saying is that you have to be smart about it, abstinence until marriage is the best way, but using protection is another.

Remember, condoms do not protect against everything. The result of a lot of the sex that goes on in the black teenage community of Amerikkka results in children, now you can be all Bill Cosby about it and criticize or you can analyze its existence. They say that "black teens have a higher rate of teenage pregnancies than white teens".

What they do not tell you is that for every 1 black teenage pregnant girl there is 1 teenage white girl who is pregnant, those white girls families' usually have more money than the black girls families' so the white girls statistics do not get in a computer because the parents pay the doctors for the privacy.

© April 2006 By Afromerica