Let Me Be Serious for a Moment

Ladies, this is a call especially to you. Those of you with daughters, sisters, nieces, female cousins, goddaughters, etc this is an emergency. Grab these girls, regardless of how old they are; tell them how beautiful they are and how talented they are and how capable they are of achieving any and everything they could possibly dream of. The younger, the better-- start telling these girls from birth because ladies, heed my words: If we don't tell the young girls we love how great they are, then they'll start looking for a boy to do so! Do you want a boy to have that much control over a girl's head? How about your little girl's head? I didn't think so.... we need to shout it from the rooftops, print it on tee shirts, make up bumper stickers and everything else we can possibly do to work hard in building the self-esteem of African American girls. I ensure you that if we can accomplish this in one little girl, then we've changed one little girl's life! Please take this to heart.

Chelsey