Teach Them Well and Let Them Lead the Way…,

First of all, let me start by saying, I dedicate THIS work to my beloved grandmother that I lost last July.  Her hand is always on my shoulder.

My Grandmother LOVED little babies, let me repeat, she LOVED little babies.  It didn’t matter if they were Black, Brown, Yellow, White, Green or Blue, she LOVED ALL babies.  (though I know for a FACT, she had an issue with people of ORANGE hue)

From her I learned that babies are our future; teach them well and let them lead the way.

In 2012, right before Christmas, a deranged young man with a gun walked into an elementary school and killed 20 babies, children between 6 and 7 years old.  This deeply disturbed her and deeply touched me.  There can be nothing more innocent in THIS world than a baby going to school to try and learn.  We as parents and those who are educators can’t be more thrown than to think about our children, our charges from God, to be massacred in their classrooms, where we sent them, to learn, and to be SAFE.  But this deranged young man stole innocence from this world on that day, and to double down on the insanity of that act, there are people in this country who refused to believe this event was real, and worse yet, there are those who personally profit from keeping you from feeling what my grandmother felt, what I felt, what I hope YOU felt, when those innocent souls violently transitioned from this life. As you sit there shaking your heads feeling the transactional pain from that memory, allow me to tell you at that very moment when the totality of that event was tallied, I doubted the existence of a God.  How could God allow something like that to happen?  Well I regained my Faith and know that not only is there a God, but there is a Heaven and in that kingdom my ancestors are there now (most of them) looking down on me and keeping me steadfast in my beliefs.  But if you believe in God, you should also believe in the Devil.  The Devil is just as real y’all.  He is real and though it may seem like it, he does not live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington DC.  That man is NOT the Devil, he is just a puppet of Satan.

In THIS country, Satan is not A person, he is the manifestation of all evil that is the American gun lobby, the NRA.  When in December of 2012 those minions of Satan stood fast and tried to tell you that that massacre didn’t happen and there was no need to try and make it harder for any deranged person or PERSONS to get their hands on weapons of mass murder and the ammo to make them deadly, they convinced ME, that this country, this land that I love, this "country Tis Of THEE", didn’t care about babies.

Babies who are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way, was a song verse, not a way of truth in this country.

In February of THIS year, on Valentine’s Day, in Parkland, Florida, another deranged young man with a weapon of mass destruction, walked into the High School he once attended, and shot and killed his former classmates and teachers and once again, we were told, there is nothing that can be done.  Gun rights trump (marinate on that word) TRUMP…, the rights of babies to go to school and be safe.  I once again shook my head and said to myself, when is enough going to be enough?  Thank God my grandmother wasn’t around to once again fret over another of these tragedies.  Politicians pontificated, pundits bloviated, families lamented, the media salivated, and we all once again, prepared for the next tragedy to happen.  But guess what?

Children ARE OUR future, seems we DID teach them well and now they are leading the way!

How many of us, myself included, have seen things happen in our lives, in our neighborhoods, in the malls, and lamented, “these kids today, Geez, what will our future be like with THIS coming generation taking over.  You see, WE are the future OUR forbearers expected to make changes happen, and to some degree, we have done major things.  But we have also FAILED them because we did NOT prepare the next generation to make things better…., OR DIDN’T we??  The term “It Takes a Village” has fallen away as social media has made everyone LESS social.  Ready made meal restaurants have made family meal time less family oriented.  And we have all, to some degree, abdicated the responsibility to, “teach them well, and let them lead the way!  But human nature is at it’s core, NATURE, and as the man said in the movie Jurassic Park; “Nature will find a way”.

Social media and all of its evils, has been utilized by THIS group of babies to create a movement, a powerful movement that reached not only across this nation, but around the WORLD and called upon caring adults to join with them and show the minions of Satan and the fool in The White House, (who left town) that they will not die away quietly THIS TIME, they will not go quietly into that good night!  THESE babies, this group of children who were 10 and 11 years old when Sandy Hook happened, and some of them who were not yet BORN, stepped into the Light and yelled out from the podiums and platforms at marches and rallies, WE WILL BE THE CHANGE THAT YOU REFUSE TO MAKE YOURSELVES!  An estimated 800,000 people marched on Washington, DC.  Over 200 more rallies and marches were held all over this world on that day.  The streets of Boston looked as crowded as they do on any Patriot’s Day for the marathon.  The reality was, MILLIONS of voters and immediate future voters came out to support this very just cause.  Those numbers and this movement cannot be dismissed nor ignored.  I could not have been more proud, (until I found out that my own son was in DC for the march, refusing to be another tragedy of these times ) than to see on MOST networks that the world is now going to HAVE TO TAKE NOTICE.  My heart welled with pride and my resolve was strengthened because THESE BABIES, THESE offspring of our efforts, THIS representation of the future to come;

IS NOW TEACHING US WELL, AND SHOWING US HOW THEY WILL LEAD THE WAY!