The word is getting out that I have written a book about my child and adolescent years. But “Bound By Nothing ” is not just a book, but also a movement. A movement that is going to help us re-structure our culture. The Bound By Nothing Tour has not even began to scratch the surface concerning the work that it has to accomplish. The tour is headed into our public schools, our prisons, and our churches. You might ask why we are starting there, well the answer is as simple as the one given by the famous bank robber Willie Sutton, when asked why he robbed banks. He replied, ‘Because that’s where the money is.’ You see, the tour is headed into those venues because that’s where we will find our children and people that are still  bound up by the issues of their past and current situations. If we are to reform our culture, we must do so by reaching out to our communities and connecting to people right where they are. The message that we must send is that they are important to us and our society, and that we need and desire them to be an interactive part of who we are and what we are doing. I have been working with people for a long time, and I have come to find that if we are not made to feel important early on, then we are most likely to behave in such a way that does not reflect who we really are. In order for us to feel important, we must have someone that has taken the responsibility to mirror or reflect back to us a clear picture of what we are supposed to be developing into. The problem is that there are so many things trying to reflect back to us. These things all say, ‘ hey, look at me, this is what we are supposed to be.’ So how do we know what picture to model ourselves after. This can be difficult for some, but the truth to the matter is this, in that moment, must of us know what is right but we just don’t know how and or lack  the courage to turn away. This is why it is so important that those of us that have the knowledge, through whatever means, and that have the courage to respond appropriately, get busy doing so. The time is now!  We have to pull together because we need a major cultural reformation in our society so that we as a people can be bound by nothing.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

Tie my hands and bind me up and I will use my mind to figure out how to get free; but bind my hands and my mind both, then I may never even know that I need to get free.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –      )