Will The REAL Creative Artists of Film, PLEASE STAND UP?!?

"It's pretty hard for the Lord to guide you, when you haven't made up your mind which way you want to go!" ~Madame C J Walker (Sarah Breedlove)

Why is it so difficult for us to realize who or whose we are today, being determined to know our history, while allowing it to remind us that we do matter, and there is a plan for our lives that the Father has already ordained?  We do not have to exist as though we are still bound, when we are already made free through the shed-blood of the Messiah! 

Now that all of these flicks have premiered, with the same ordinary statements, pointing to obvious connections, can we now have some truly creative screenwriters to rise to the occasion, providing more inspirational insight?

Remember when there were 3 major networks, cable wasn't provided, yet we were exposed to some of the best shows, TV-movies, documentaries, and an impressive array of entertainment specials?

Regarding theater or television showings today, I find it so interesting how there are many remakes of already-monumental movie blockbusters of the past, or an enormous amount of reality shows on TV.  Now, mind you, I love the FAST AND FURIOUS collection, and RUSH HOUR trilogy.  Even the IRON MAN series is absolutely epic.

However, do we not perceive how we should continually have an astute sense of obligation, when it comes to teaching young people to become more motivated in having a dream, and pursuing it?  That we keep the youth encouraged, regardless to whether their home environment leaves much to be desired, their father doesn't claim them enough to be regularly involved in their life, or their teachers in school unusually bombarded with rules and regulations, cannot be directly concerned with discreet envisaging of each student?

Personally, I have always loved historically-sound true stories, how they provide established inspiration, revealing how there is nothing too hard for  us to do, when the Father shows us a vision.  It would actually be a very great idea, for someone, with a gifted flair to construct a screen-writing prowess, to ascribe something relating to a particular inventor, such as this woman:

Madame C. J. Walker

Madame C. J. Walker (12/23/1867-5/25/1919), was a businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, tycoon and philanthropist.  She rose to esteemed  prominence, in twelve years, from a washerwoman making only $1.50 a day, to a position of wealth and influence among members of her race. 

Originally known as Sarah Breedlove, she was born in 1867 in poverty-stricken rural Louisiana.  The daughter of former slaves, she was orphaned at the age of seven.  Along with her older sister Louvenia, she survived by working in the cotton fields of Delta and Vicksburg, Mississippi.  

Sarah was married to Moses McWilliams, at age fourteen, and her only daughter A'Lelia, was born in 1885.  Becoming a widow at age 20, after the death of her husband, she traveled to St. Louis to join her four brothers who had established themselves as barbers.  She worked as a cook, laundrywoman, etc., until she reached the age of 37.  One morning, while bending over her wash, she suddenly realized there was no prospect on her meager salary to set aside anything for retirement, or old age. 

Annie Malone

During the 1890s, she began to suffer from a scalp ailment that caused her to lose her hair.  Embarrassed by her appearance, she began experimenting with a variety of home-made remedies and products.  After sending up prayers for God to help save her hair loss, she received an answer from the heavens.  She dreamed of a man appearing to her, providing the ingredients needed for the mixture that would assist in growing hear hair back.  She made some up in her bathtub, tried it out on herself, and surprisingly discovered, it worked!  She was soon selling the dream-inspired development to her friends and neighbors. 

However, in St. Louis, similar products were already being made by another black woman entrepreneur, Annie Malone.  In 1905, Sarah became a sales agent for Malone, then moved to Denver, Colorado, where she would launch her own hair tonic business, which she accomplished, on a capital of $1.25.  A plan was devised, and Sarah made sure it was securely set in motion.

On January 4, 1906, around the time the products were becoming more popular, she married Charles Joseph Walker, a newspaperman and publicist, changing her name to Mrs. C. J. Walker.  She gave herself the name "Madame" to add a touch of class to the name of her products.

In a few years she had accumulated a large sum, and invested in real estate in the West, South, and in New York State.  Only retaining a six-grade learning herself, she realized the importance of obtaining education at its finest, a dream she wanted for her daughter.  Enough money was saved for A'Lelia's education, who graduated high school, also attending Knoxville College, one of the goals Madame Walker was able to check off the list of accomplishments.  In addition, she became involved in activities with the National Association of Colored Women. 

Madame Walker's fortune was made by developing and marketing a hugely successful line of beauty and hair products for black women, under the company she founded, Madame C. J. Walker Manufacturing.  By 1911 her company employed over 950 agents who earned around $1,000 a month compared to the $45 a month unskilled white workers earned.

Determined to provide superlative delegates, specializing in quality representation, she opened a business school.  Lelia College, in Pittsburgh, PA, was initiated so that potential sales agents could be trained properly for the business.  They were taught how to demonstrate the hair products, and door-to-door sales techniques.  The agents were also trained good personal habits and hygienic procedures, practices that preceded the state's cosmetology laws.  Madame Walker was the first to use this cultivating process in a large-scale fashion.  Her agents were soon easily recognizable in their neatly arranged hair, black skirts, and white shirts.

The Walker Theater, in Indianapolis, IN

Madame Walker was destined to become a millionaire, not that she just wanted the money for herself, but for the good she could do for other with being in that position.  She donated $10,000 every year for the education of young black men and women in Southern colleges, sending six youths to Tuskegee Institute - every year!

Other donations she made were to the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), also imposing the effort to buy and protect the home of Frederick Douglas.  In fact, The Guinness Book of Records cites her as the first female to become a millionaire by her own achievements.

While blessed to give as well as receive, her life was not without experiencing prejudice, no matter how wealthy she was.  Amid discrimination, she fought against it by any means available.  Once, when told to pay twice the amount that white customers paid for movie tickets, she sued the theater, and built her own, as part of her "Walker Building" complex, in Indianapolis, IN. When President Woodrow Wilson began discontinuing reforms that would give Blacks more freedom, Madame Walker visited the White House in 1917, to protest the lynching of Blacks.

The prescription for success for Madame C. J. Walker was perseverance, hard work, faith in  in Our Heavenly Father, as well as herself, "honest business dealings" and of course, top quality products.  One of her prolific quotes states: 

"There is no royal flower-strewn path to success, and if there is, I have not found it - for if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard."

Madame Walker's $250,00 mansion in Irvington-on-Hudson, NY,
three stories high, including 30 or more rooms

Now this is the type of individual we should have the opportunity to view on the big screen, having their story projected.  Someone who can truly comprehend, in order to discern how sincere dreams can emerge into fruition of one's own victorious life chronicle.  Come forward, independent writers of cinema, and provide an exhilarating treat for us, so much that children and young people alike can realize their full potential, that every vision will be accomplished, with the help of Our Sovereign Father!