Recently, some members of South Florida's Caribbean media launched an effort to organize themselves and form a Media Association. This is a bold and commendable effort, considering that there are several obstacles that first must be overcome for any such association to be meaningful to its members and the community and to be successful as an organization. A couple years ago this attempt did not go beyond a few meetings and eventually that group disbanded without achieving any meaningful goal.

The next 7 weeks leading up to the Pennsylvania primaries is shaping up to be bloody and perhaps will totally annihilate the Democratic Party by the end. One has to wonder if this is what the Democratic leadership think is best for the party.  This can only be cut two ways - neither of which is good... the first, I'm saying skeptically, because I would hate to think that I'm right, but what the heck let's put it out there - this is the notion that this might be by design. The party itself may not be confident that a Barack Obama candidacy can carry the democratic ticket in the fall and really don't know how to put an end to the saga, without dividing the party vis a vis, turning off the massive support and rejuvination that Barack has brought to the Democratic party.

Parents always want the best for their children, regardless of their background, regardless of their position on the economic, social or class totem pole.  Their dream is that their child will become someone prominent who has excelled in their particular career field.  The hope that surrounds the birth of a child is universal, as proud parents imaginations run wild with aspirations of greatness.

In earlier years, just about every parent dreamed of their child becoming a doctor, lawyer, accountant, banker, engineer or a politician - well let's rethink that last one as well as the lawyer - but on the serious note, these professions represented respect, class, power and paid well enough to secure one’s future and propel one from the bottom of the economic ladder.

There are so many stories of persons who were pushed into a particular profession by a parent, some trying to live vicariously through their child, or simply just wanting the child to be "someone" or as a ticket out of poverty and in some instances, as a pension plan for the parent.  In most cases, these persons are never happy with their profession and either go through life miserable or rebelled against the parent by changing course and pursuing a profession perceived by the parent to be of less prestige.  Often times this change in profession creates a rift between child and parent - the child by now is an adult trying to define his/her own life - but the controlling parent cannot face that reality.