Our message to the world and its message back to us

We're on TV, in the movies, up on stages all around the world, entertaining people, singing, rapping, throwing balls, running, jumping, shaking it in videos. This is hardly the majority of us, but it's the majority of what the rest of the world sees. We're very used to being seen but this article asks a very simple question: why aren't we doing a better job of keeping our eye on the rest of the world? Are we watching trends? Preparing for change? How are the rest of us gonna eat? At the very end of the piece the writer touches on a scary idea. He basically says that those of us who aren't watching -- not only referring to under-skilled or under-educated people but also the unconnected and unwired -- are in the unique position of becoming "economically irrelevant." He says that the evolving economy that is making the world so much smaller not only puts us in this position locally, but it's marginalizing us globally! Read this essay by Glenn C. Williams Jr.: "What Does India Have To Do With Black America?" (btw, this essayist is my cousin in Philly, big up!)