There's No Danger in the Water: Encouraging Black Men to Become Mentors
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Dr. Belay D. Reddick, Sr.
Belay D. Reddick is a national respected mentorship authority, youth development expert, advocate, urban community strategist, and founder of Partnership for Prevention and Guidance who has dedicated his life to guiding inner city, at risk children to academic and social success. In addition, Dr. Reddick’s inspirational and motivational open letter to young black men has been heard weekly on Augusta’s 103.7, The Spirit, the former home of The Helen Blocker-Adams Show with a listenership of three hundred thousand. He holds an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Universal Life Church. He serves time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Miami, Florida. www.facebook.com/belay.reddick.9 - www.twitter.com/DrBelayDReddick - riseofcolor.blogspot.com. Danquirs Franklin is a youth advocate and public speaker. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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There's No Danger in the Water - Dr. Belay D. Reddick, Sr.
There's No Danger
in the
Water
Encouraging Black Men To Become Mentors
Dr. Belay D. Reddick, Sr.
written with Danquirs Franklin
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Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
1
Why We Need Black Male Role Models
2
How A Prisoner Did It
3
Who Knows Better Than You? Why Black Men Don’t Mentor
4
If One Does Not Act, One Cannot Understand
5
Know What’s Going On Around You And Why
6
Hear 2 Listen: Black Teen Summit
7
Volunteering – Giving Back To The Black Community
8
Do Your Best
9
Letters From Danquirs Franklin
Epilogue
Q & A With Dr. Reddick
About the Authors
Dedication
To my children, De’Andre, Belay II and Brianna, with thanks for inspiring me, for the generosity of their love, and for allowing me to share their lives with others as precious gifts I have always known they were.
Dr. Belay D. Reddick, Sr.
To my daughter, Skyy Lee, that she might never settle for substandard.
Danquirs Franklin
Acknowledgements
There’s No Danger in the Water makes book number one for us. We’re proud of that. We are more proud of the fact that we were able to collaborate on this book miles away from one another. This is only a testimony of how awesome God is.
To the good people of AuthorHouse Publishing, especially our senior publishing consultant, Tim Murphy, who were tremendously helpful in seeing this project through.
Special thanks to Teresa Scott-Pickens and Richard Slick Rick
Adderson, our extended family, who made this book and its contents possible. Much love and respect.
Thanks to the invaluable contribution of William A. Briscoe, who typed this manuscript and provided enormously helpful suggestions and ideas; and his sidekick Robert Goldstein.
We are especially thankful for Deborah Franklin and Mary Boyd, who allowed us the opportunity to build a true friendship. And finally, we are grateful to Eric Frazier of the Charlotte Observer for connecting our lives together through his pen.
1
Why We Need Black Male Role Models
I don’t have to be a professor of economics or a political pundit to see these are absolutely the worst of times in the United States, the most powerful country in the world. The economy is bad. More than 14 million remain jobless. States are seeking to save money by beefing up probation and parole programs to reduce the number of prison inmates, as well as pushing rehabilitation over jail for low-level drug crimes. While national unemployment stands at about 9.2 percent, black unemployment is 16.2 percent. It’s 17 percent for black men. Scores of families are facing home foreclosures. Another factor that speak to both the economic competitiveness and security of America - the K-12 public education system - is also in crisis.
For President Obama, it’s personal. For the country it’s critical. For black America, it’s the civil rights issue of the 21st century. For me, it’s morally unacceptable. We know that the bedrock and fuel of American innovation and success is a quality education, which leads to opportunity, higher salaries, safer communities, and a stronger nation. And every parent, regardless of race, nationality, or economic status, wants their child to have the best possible education.
Nationwide, three out of 10 students never graduate. In some inner city schools, only three out of 10 do. What’s troubling about these numbers is that 12 percent of the schools produce 50 percent of America’s dropout rates. Yet, no one wants to do what it takes to make the changes necessary for America to reclaim its position as the best educated nation on the planet. We can gather all the panels of experts we want to discuss solutions for our ailing public school system, but if the solutions don’t address the causes, high school dropouts will continually be condemned to poverty and social failure.
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