Who are we?
Let’s Define Progress was built for, but not exclusively composed of, Black Men to create opportunities for advancement, improvement, and enjoyment of life.
Today progress stands as the climatic goal of our generation. The idea of progress is sold to us as being just outside of our grasp yet almost within reach. As an organization, we see the idea of progress as a yoke that’s used to maintain political relationships that benefits our political allies more than ourselves. Our position is clear in that if we as a community fail to organize local, state, national, and international discussions amongst ourselves then we can never genuinely identify who we really are and what we really want out of life.
By providing outside voices with prodigious positions in our decision-making process, we as an individual unit fail to truly identify what progress means to us. We ignore the fact that our idea of Progress may differ from those in charge of the discussion and who have their own predetermined idea of what progress is. As an organization, we focus on defining what individual progress means to the Black & African people in Atlanta, the State of Georgia, The American South, and across the United States in each borough, county, and region where we live.
We exist as a Congress to find common ground between all ideologies and factions within our community and to implement actionable paths toward the improvement of life for all. Our belief is that if we United we, as Black & African people, would stand tall in economic, political, and social areas of opportunity around the world in every industry, discipline, and market.
For Clarity
con·gress
/ˈkäNGɡrəs/
a formal meeting or series of meetings for discussion between delegates, especially those from a political party or labor union or from within a particular discipline.
a society or organization, especially a political one.
the action of coming together