Guest Post: from Maleness into Manhood.

When you want to change and do something different in your life, you can’t sit there and just expect things to change without making some type of effort. You have to learn to crawl before you walk and before you run. 

Participating in Black August has been that stepping stone for me. The encouragement, motivation, and wisdom from the Brothers has already become a positive motivating force in my life. What I like about Black August is that I can participate in it without having to compromise my Christianity. Because it’s teaching me self-discipline, self-sacrifice, unity, and education. All of the principles our ancestors lived by. 

1 Corinthians 13:10-11 says, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.” 

For me, that scripture represents what Black August embodies. 

Growth from Maleness to Manhood. 

“Hail Martin, Hail Malcom, Mohammed Ali

If a change shall come, it must

start with me! Then Farrakhan

came marching changing boys to men

But before we can be anything

We will be Afrikan!” 

-unknown

JC.