Introduction

If Dr. Martin Luther King could have lived to see the America in which Blacks live today, he would be mortified. This is not the future he dreamed of for his people 50 years ago. In a speech given by Willie Lynch in 1712, he accurately predicted that with the implementation of his plan blacks will be controlled for AT LEAST 300 years. The year 2013 makes 301. Lynch's plan called for slave owners and masters to use the differences between slaves to turn them against one another: "the slaves will remain perpetually distrustful." Whites systematically instilled a distrust of other slaves into African American ancestors. 301 years later, this intense distrust in our own people has survived and thrived. It is evident in the team light skin and team dark skin battles on social networks, the blatant disrespect elders receive from the youth, and the painstakingly high number of Blacks being gunned down by other Blacks. African Americans have inadvertently became their own oppressors. The so-called "differences" between Blacks have stretched far beyond color, age, and sex. This cup of differences, already filled by whites, has overflown and poured into distrust of Blacks from different neighborhoods. There are gun fights and bloodshed over streets and land Blacks do not own. There is a war being waged in these neighborhoods. Blacks have become their own worst enemy. For too long these issues have been swept under the rug: out of sight out of mind. But America can no longer ignore the undying truth that this pandemic of violence has gotten wildly out of hand. Something must be done. 50 years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched on Washington to demand that action be taken against the injustices faced by African Americans of the time with hopes of creating a better tomorrow. He did not, however, anticipate that the African American people would be metaphorically slicing their own wrists and throats. What has been steeping for three centuries cannot be undone overnight. But it can be done. With the unity and dignity once valued by the ostentatious forefathers of Blacks, it can most certainly be done. With the election of  Barack Obama as President of The United States, there was a false sense that Dr. King Jr.'s dream had finally come true. On every social network there were collages of Dr. King Jr. and Obama. Although the electing of a man of African descent into the highest position of power in the U.S. is a giant step in a positive direction, there are still countless 

 obstacles that must be hurdled.