Term Life Insurance Digest

I just realized how much I really don’t know about what’s going on with the ecomony (and how complicated everything is).  Hopefully we can find our way out of this mess.  My biggest fear right now is that the people trying to solve the problem may not be smart enough or disciplined enough to do what needs to be done.

I was reading on this blog.  It has a ton of info about what’s going on.

I know this has nothing to do with life insurance, but I was listening last night to the election returns and it really frustrated me to hear what some of the most successful black people in America were saying.  The one that stuck out in my mind was Oprah.  She said something to the effect that she never thought this would happen in her lifetime.  And she was of course referring to the fact that a black man was elected President of the United States.

That line of thought is very frustrating to me.  Maybe it’s because I’m white.  I don’t know.  But when I think about who I want to be President, I don’t ever think about color.  I think about policy issues; I think about leadership ability; and I think about good judgment.  Those are the things I look for in a President, and none of those things have anything to do with color.

What struck me about Oprah’s comment is that she, in her heart of hearts, didn’t believe that a black man could ever succeed at something so great–at least not in her lifetime.  What does that tell you about a culture, when one of their most successful icons doesn’t believe in her heart that her people can succeed?

How are black people ever going to succeed if they don’t believe that they can?

I grew up in a culture in Sacramento where I was always told I could do whatever I wanted to do.  I grew up believing that my success was up to me–not someone else.  And when I look at my life, I can see when I was successful because of my decisions, and when I failed because of my decisions.  Other people may have been involved in that success or failure, but ultimately the responsibility was mine.

I wish the black leadership would instill in their people that color does not matter.  Color of skin will not keep you from being successful.  You are the only person that can keep you from succeeding.  The most successful people in the world have failed many times.  Failure is part of success.  From it you learn and grow and find other avenues for success.  If the black society stopped blaming America for their failure, then maybe they’d keep on trying to find success, and through whatever failures came their way, they eventually would.