Wrapping up the Year

We're wrapping up another semester here at Northern Kentucky University. After we stop pulling our hair and stressing over final exams, we'll take the time to reflect on the past couple of months. Since the last post, the NAACP NKU College Chapter has been put in many situations that were outside of our comfort zone, but we were able to adjust and take what we needed to help us become a better chapter. We had the opportunity to attend a NAACP Kentucky State Conference. From this event we took note of two very important factors, that there are alot of our Elders that hold higher ranking, and there are very few youth leaders. So what do you do when you are in a room where you are subtly told by the Eldest that you don't necessarily know what your doing, but then from the youth standpoint you are doing your best? What do you do when you are told to make mountains out of molehills and no one hands you a shovel or a set of instructions? We were able to take that moment and use it to always remember that at the end of the day you will not impress everyone. But being apart of the NAACP is not a fashion show, or some type of nascar race. It is a human rights organization, where your first priority is to do for the people, because if you were ever down and out you would want somebody to help you. Did we not do that when we educated the people on why singing every word of Lift Every Voice and Sing sets your mind, heart and soul free? Did we not do that when we reminded ones of the struggles of the past and present and how we have to strive to carry the torch for the future? Or did we not do that when we helped a family that didn't look like us, and who didn't have as many material things as us, have a good and merry season? To some those things look superficial, but take a look at every member and see that we're not all scholars, mentors, and leaders that you will need to follow in the future. At the beginning of the year when we took our oath to live up to doing New Age Activisim for A Common Purpose, we didn't let up. And we're not going to, because we are not of the cowarding breed. So stay up, stay focus, and watch us continue to empower and lift the people in this next following year.