WCB Foundation, Inc.

Willing To Change Barriers in Society?

      Love! That is something missing from the lives of too many young men and women in our society. We need to get back to our roots and restore the traditional values that made us who we are today. How can you share your love with these young men and women?

     For the past several years we have seen too many young men and women in our society fall victim to the act of another young man or woman's actions. My mother, Corliss Bridges, lost her youngest child on July 24, 2005 to a senseless act of crime. William Charleton Bridges was shot on Goshen Road exit outside of Morgantown, WV. The community misses his big heart and love for people.  This was such a tragedy to our family. In remembrance to our lost loved one we initially planned to have a picnic with family and close friends. What was first a gathering to pay respect to my brother, the idea to have a day to impact our society and educate our youth and parents came about.

      WCB is an acronym that stands for Willing to Change Barriers in society! WCB represents a society willing to break through to the youth. To teach them the love of God first, as well as love for one another, and to teach them values and morals, including respect for oneself and all human life, self-discipline and, simply, good manners. We also knew that this would help foster bonding for all parents in the community. We want to break those barriers in our society to bring about a positive change in our community. WCB also represents William Charleton Bridges, who also wanted to make a difference in society. As you read the attached essay written by my younger brother I hope that you can feel his strong sense of love for family and religion. He is a big inspiration to me, my mother and my brother and we want to carry out his legacy.

 -Neshia Marshelle Bridges

 

 

The American Family

 

 

 

 

 

     The way our society is shaped today, how can we actually 

 

 

summarize "The American Family Today"?  You're either in a 

 

 

high-class family, a middle-class family, or a low-class family.

 

 

Basically you're either receiving or being funded checks.  

 

 

And what I mean by funded is that you may be getting a little

 

 

help from the welfare office.  My point is, one, you're either

 

 

raised with a silver spoon in your mouth.  Two, your family is 

 

 

enhanced with their family's business.  Three, you've inherited

 

 

some money.  And four, you're raised in a glass jar 

 

 

where poverty, violence, drugs, and crime are all placed in that

 

 

jar.  The way I see it, you're rich or poor, smart or dumb,

 

 

dedicated or lazy, or respectful or ignorant.  Take all these 

 

 

words and place them in a category and I guarantee you can make some

 

 

type of distinction of society's families.  Most of us see the 

 

 

American Family as this rich, high-class, suburban family

 

 

who is wealthy, lives in a respectful community, has a

 

 

beautiful home, fancy cars, nice clothing, and lives a prosperous

 

 

life.  Is that the American Family?  All that doesn't mean anything

 

 

if you haven't worked for it.  Why can't someone of a middle-class

 

 

or lower-class family be distinguished as "The American Family"?

 

 

Do you have to have the finer things in life to be considered a 

 

 

family?  Do you have to drive the expensive cars?  Basically,

 

 

does money make up a family?  I know there are things such as

 

 

car payments, a house note, insurance, credit card bills, your

 

 

children's school funding. I know all that.  But that just comes

 

 

with being a parent. What about the morals and values

 

 

that make up a family?  What about love?  What about 

 

 

religion?  What about togetherness.  I thought those are what

 

 

made families.

 

 

 

 

 

Written by William Charleton Bridges