SamBoakye is a freshman at Ohio University. He is the only black on the floor of the dormitory he shares with a white room mate. Because of historical racism and discrimination Boakye thinks he has something to prove. Through this negative impulse he is prepared to work his hardest to prove to his white room mates that blacks are just as smart.
Does he really have to represent all Blacks, isn't it enough that there are hundreds or thousands of Blacks in the States who have proved it time and again that they are smart? Isn't having the President of the United States of America, President Obama, a black enough to make Boakye feel satisfied? Isn't Oprah Winfrey's larger than life image in America's pop culture, Dr. Bill Cosby, Maya Angelou,etc. etc. etc. enough no! Tom is suffering from a virus of the mind called meme which was put there by the institutions of the past, the church, his parents, scientists and so on, that tells him he has to try doubly hard, that he does not measure up, that Blacks are inferior. Sam has to find an antidote to that virus of the mind, the meme. (Memes are the DNA of human society, influencing every aspect of mind, behavior, and culture.)
Sam can overcome the meme by letting go and let the Creator in. He has to come to the realization that he is not his past nor his present he is now. Who he is is who he is. He does not have to prove anything he just have to be better than he was before. By believing he has to prove something to be respected, to be loved, to be accepted, he is allowing his ego free reign. If Sam just be himself and open his heart to loving his roommate sincerely, by displaying the virtues of the Creator, he is opening up according to Dr. Wayne Dyer, for the operation of the law of attraction.
Life is about giving, serving, not taking and wanting. It is about living in the now and being the best you can be. When you work from a God-consciousness the way you look at things change and when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Read the article in the New York Time, it is enlightening:
Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice, Campus Studies Find - NYTimes.com
