We must get back to caring about our communities and where we live

All you have to do is walk around any urban city where Black people are relegated to live, and what do you see?

- Maryann Muhammad

Illegal dumping, trash and debris, sidewalk litter, cluttered alleyways, just litter in abundance. What happened to the adage, “Cleanliness is next to Godliness?" What is the reason for the neglect in our Black communities? Are we thinking about our legacy to our children and their wellbeing? I think not. What about the negative effects of our children walking to school, standing at bus stops littered with mounds of trash, and attempting to cross streets when they must step over so much litter? It is a travesty. When did we stop caring?

It certainly was not that way when we were in bondage and working for the slave masters. We cleaned whether we wanted to or not. The master could walk three hundred miles and not see a peanut shell or a cotton ball hull.