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If you knew of someone who convinced storeowners to not display of crackpipes, crackrock grinders, miniature scales, and hookahs openly where children would be overly exposure to them, how would you show you appreciation? If you knew of someone who forced the storeowners to not over exposure children to "drug paraphernalia", would you acknowledge that person as a hero to the children the community? If decreasing the exposure to "drug paraphernalia" was a highly suggested strategy by the Department of Mental Health Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Services, Hinds Behavioral Health Services and the Mississippi State Police Bureau of Drug Enforcement would you applaud someone made it happen? Finally, would you concern the person who instituted the above mentioned actions a community healthcare hero?

Well all those things did happen and the Jackson City Council passed an ordinance to regulate the sale of "tobacco products" {more commonly referred to as drug paraphernalia} for the protection of Jackson's children. Leading the charge to clean up the sale and open display of "tobacco products" was Mr. Stanley Wesley, President of the Respect Our Black Dollars Movement {ROBDM}. Here's a news story that shows the culmination of the years of effort of Mr. Stanley and the ROBDM group.
http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/29348423/council-passes-tobacco-paraphernalia-ordinance

Mr. Stanley and the ROBDM group are community advocates for a "NU Normal" regarding the societal expectations of People of African Descent {PADs} and challenging the open display and sale of drug paraphernalia {under the disguise of "tobacco products"} is disrespectful to the intelligence of PADs. The old standards of "normalcy" in the Black community allowed for such carryon and storeowners generally acknowledged that old "normal" when originally approached by the ROBDM group. But through persistence and an imperishable spirit of righteousness, what PADs call HYE WON HYE, "A Change Has Come" as Sam Cooke had promised.

But let's remember what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said when he made the infamous I Have A Dream speech, "This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism." Now is the time to make real America be America as it is written, with regard to way People of African Descent are respected, or have been disrespected. Now is the time to create the Nu Normal that the Respect Our Black Dollar Movement is advocating for and working towards. They are community healthcare heroes and more.