We are once again focusing on the plight of Young Black Males. This is good. Late, but good. Finally, this subject seems to have the attention of the masses. More on this after the Top 20.

Making the jump to #1 is Breakup by Mario featuring Gucci Mane and Sean Garrett. Ego by Beyonce, improves to #2. Up to # 3 is Last Chance by Ginuwine. Falling to #4 from the top spot is Maxwell's slow jam Pretty Wings.

Improving to #5 is the monster dance anthem I Know You Want Me by Pitbull. Up to #6 is Successful by Drake featuring L'il Wayne. Soaring to #7 is Mary Mary with God in Me, Up to #8 is Throw it in the Bag by Fabolous featuring the Dream. Climbing to #9 is Run This Town by Jay Z, Rihanna and Kanye West.

Improving to #10 and shifting gears to dance music is the cool new hit track Celebration by Madonna. Up to #11 is Obsessed by Mariah Carey. Falling to #12 is Magnificent by Rick Ross featuring John Legend.

Now some new music. Up to #13 is this week is Would've Been The One by Solange, a dance hit and a former essential new tune. Improving to #14 is Wasted by Gucci Mane featuring Plies or OJ Da Juiceman. Up to #15 is Under by Pleasure P. #16 is Whitney Houston's Million Dollar Bill, which is still flying up dance, club and pop music charts worldwide.

Falling to #17 is Knock You Down by Keri Hilson featuring Kanye West and Ne-yo. Up to #18 is Boom Boom Pow by Black Eyed Peas, a hot pop/dance track. Improving to #19 is S.O.S. (Let the Music Play), by Jordin Sparks.

Now this week's essential new tune, probably the hottest essential new tune in months. New at #20 is Make Me by Janet Jackson. Get ready music lovers because this is an anthem that kicks, is catchy and everybody will soon be singing it. The bassline of the song is out of this world.

The song combines funky disco and dance music. Look out for dance mixes galore as this funky and flexible track demands and deserves maximum airplay in as many varieties as possible.

Now back to this week's word – Young Black Males. Why do we always need a foreigner to tell us what we already know we need to do, before people will listen? This is one thing about this country that makes me sick to my stomach.

That does not suggest xenophobia. However, it is what it is. I wish Dr. Ronald Mincy had given us a solution for this phenomenon as well, but then that would put him out of work, wouldn't it?

In any event, I will admit that I was ready to critical before actually reading the report; which is why I made sure I read it before writing this submission. So what does it say?

Well, not much that I and we didn't know already, although it was helpful to read it all in one document, albeit a 200-plus page literary work. That's a bit long, but I guess young black males' plight is such that this is what is needed.

But it was interesting to read the individual comments from young brothers.

I was concerned that much of the data was from 2000! That's quite a while ago but since the problem hasn't been resolved, the data is still relevant. Tobe fair, there are some useful recommendations. However, the only one that I can recall as being new is the suggestion of replicating an agency that is dedicated to the plight of young black males who are marginalised and disenfranchised.

The work shadowing initiative makes sense but has been tabled before. I guess because it may have been proposed by a Bermudian, possibly even a relatively young black male, it was not implemented. Someone is supposed to say Touche at this point!

The report is good, but it missed the spiritual/religious component that is vital to any society. Any society that practises any form of organised religion will have a far more peaceful and functional existence than those that do not.

All religions teach and encourage men to take charge of their households, to love their wives, to be responsible for raising their children and to provide for their families. Religion does this far better than any other mechanism, bar none! So, notwithstanding that Dr. Mincy's report is quite good, we might have gotten the same information for a lot less than the $400,000 I'm told we paid for it.

I'm not being a party pooper, but we must stop spending money unnecessarily. $400K may seem small when put up against other events like the Music Festival – which is a colossal waste of money – but it just adds to the total sum spent unnecessarily. But I digress; we'll hit up the music festival next week. Stay tuned.

Back to the report: A Trinidadian bredren shared with me the expression, "What's done is done".

See, Bermudians don't all suffer from Xenophobia! Since the money is spent; let's implement the recommendations we can use and afford.

Hopefully this is the last time we have a report done on this, which would mean that we actually begun to solve the problem. Peace … DJLT.