Where were the "moderators"?

SlackerMomMD
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:42:56 +0000

@Waiting2exhale - you lasted longer than me. I turned it off at 2:53. Not because the kids were misbehaving. I also saw kids sitting still, facing and paying attention to the speaker. The speaker, as good his intentions may be, was all about himself and what he did for his kids. He wasn’t connecting to the kids in the auditorium. He managed to tell them (as if they didn’t know), they were failing, had rough lives, and probably didn’t have much. He told them he didn’t have any male role models (check). But HE was making sure that HIS kids had a present father. That’s great but THEY weren’t his kids so they just hearing one more way they lost in the lottery of life. That’s when he lost me. The kids may have lasted longer because they wanted to hear what changed for him. I think they wanted to learn something from him, but his opening lost them. Too bad. He wanted to inspire and they wanted to be inspired.

“Listen to me very closely. They pay me $50,000 to $100,000 when I speak to corporate America. I go to a basketball program and they pay me good. I ain’t getting a dime here,” he started his passionate spiel with. “I’m here because I love you, but I’ll be darned if I come here for free and you disrespect me.”

This is his ego talking. Why should these kids care he’s a rich guy who came to talk to them “for free”?