Awaken From your Slumbers and Rise on Your Wings

Preface

This book is the result of my attempts to understand the mysteries of life. As members of a disfranchised group, we resemble bumble bees. Aerodynamically, according to the laws of physics, we should not be able to fly. Items negating our abilities include: reports of intellectual limitations and genetic inferiority; professional journals and literature valuing homogeneous managers as more productive given a diverse and heterogeneous environment; prejudicial myths of predisposition to violence and reproduction; and the mass media hystericising the plight of the urban poor and the backlash of the white male.

If we allow others-- those on the outside-- to dictate our lives, we will never realize our mission in life-- to fly with strength, beauty, grace and dignity. No matter how much training, education, and business experience we obtain, hatred and prejudice will always obscure and overrule the obvious.

The missing ingredient is perfect love. Selfless love, unyielding love, forgiving love; a love not prone to envy, hate and boastfulness. This love-- perfect love-- magnifies the three dependent variables; training, education and experience, which allows us to fly in the midst of oppression, negativity and false beliefs.

So, the bumble bee bumbles and buzzes happily from flower to flower, enjoying fully the nectar of life, unaware of the commotion around him. All he knows-- innately-- is that God gave him the ability to fly, and so he does...

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