Beer, blunts, LSD, PCP, champagne, cocaine, hot spots, hip-hop, rock-‘n-roll, heavy metal, jazz, loose morals, no morals, I do what I wanna do, who can tell me what to do, but one thing is for sure:I want to be happy.

Sentiments of the Voiceless desperately seeking peace of mind and contentment of the spirit and soul is seemingly unattainable to many, yet being happy rest in the heart and on the lips of the voiceless masses. A friend who read my words in the DE Feb. 17 wanted to know the inner meaning of my first letter without the symbols, similies or signs of poetic language. Basically, he said, When you give it to me Bro. Enoch, give it to me raw. (Sort of like Method Man of the Wu Tang Clan.)

You want it R.A.W.? Are students in school to receive degrees in knowledge and in the ability to think for self or are students here to memorize scholars, theories and get degrees in quotology? Should not students fight the falsehood that is seen in the curriculum or should students recite falsehood back to get an A, learn nothing and leave school with a B.S. degree? (B.S. is exactly what that is.) Are students in school to learn the best way of how to roll a blunt (marijuana), of how to pass out from drinking without getting their stomachs pumped or of how to perform as many sexual positions with as many people as possible? I know, everyone is not doing this, but many are. This is a classic case of M.J.B.-itis:All we really want, is to be at peace… we want to be happy. Is happiness found in that never-ending blunt which frees you for a period of time and then it punks out on you and leaves you lower than you were from the start? Is it worth the pain that comes in the end of sexual escapades with people you do not love (just lust for)?

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Well, what is the alternative to the so-called college life of promiscuity, drunkenness, wild partying, fighting, foolishness and ignorance in the name of youthful exuberance?

No, I’m not 63, I’m 24. No, I’m not homosexual (no offense, but I believe in the original, not the alternative lifestyle).

No, I’m not a saint, but I’ve learned like Tupac in the Vibe interview that he had done from prison, fighting to be right in a world of wrong is better for us if we desire peace in our lives.

What is the alternative? Clean righteous living based upon principles of freedom, justice, equality and truth that is applied in our everyday lives, which bears witness to the great men and women of the Creator who were sent to different people, at different times and to different parts of the world, giving the one uniting principle which is the submitting of our wills to do what is right.