Let's face some uncomfortable facts.
Here we have a Gordian knot. The ends are hidden.
Unravelling a tangled skein is no mean feat.
Beginning at the beginning, find the tie that binds.
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Young black men father children out of wedlock, and then leave the mothers to support the next generation
by plunging them into poverty. Can we all agree this happens at an epidemic level? Would you accept the statistic of
7 out of 10?
Is this a racism issue? I don't see how. It is a choice and it is a fatal one.
This, of course, occurs in all colors of communities--BUT NOT AT THIS HIGH RATE.
So what? So, each generation falls further and further behind. That's what.
Will the mother and the child survive without becoming DEPENDANT on whatever "help" is available?
What are the choices? Which of the available choices gives this mother and child a genuine chance at
escaping, crime, drugs, gangs, poverty?
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What I see happening is this. The cheap answer is the blame game. Those who take charge of their own lives can break
out of the downward spiral. Those who blameshift become bitter and ripe for cynicism and payback.
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This is where Community Leaders can make all the difference in the world.
I earlier cited the model of Martin Luther King and his Peace Marches, Sit-ins, and passive resistance movements as a WINNING STRATEGY.
The struggle of the black community for EQUAL RIGHTS was brought into public consciousness as a problem with a possible solution.
The opposers to equal rights were the BRUTES.
The picture was clear and the solution was begun.
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All these years later, that model of HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL has been abandoned by black leaders. The effectiveness of change by legal means
has been discarded. WHY?
Corrupt leadership. Race pimps. Self-aggrandizing spokesmen. Inflammatory media. Dishonest analysis.
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The politics of RACE has been to appeal to blacks by throwing money and promises at programs to gain their votes, and once elected, to ignore the
rest of their problems. Democrats are really good at this.
Republicans are completely clueless.
Old white men from the Jim Crow era who grew up without Civil rights consciences, often say inflammatory, ignorant, clueless sound bites creating
a wall of separation.
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Where was black leadership in Ferguson when the young man who was shot was being used as an excuse to break things, burn things, to loot and
shoot?
THERE WAS NO LEADERSHIP. There was no Martin Luther King.
There was Rev. Al Sharpton. There was a screaming bereaved father,"BURN IT DOWN--BURN THIS BITCH DOWN."
Where were the Leaders? Where was a moderate voice among the angry ones?
NO LEADERSHIP, NO FUTURE.
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In Arab countries, the young Arab males are held in high esteem while the females are dominated by religious law.
The majority of Muslim communities in the Middle East have no employment for these self-centered, highly-indoctrinated young Princes.
The Oil Billionaire sheiks provide welfare.
The only political movement is also the Religious movement: Theocracy.
Indoctrination corrupts education.
Hatred for Israel is in the mother's milk.
The West is demonized.
1 out of every 4 people in the world embraces ISLAM.
Even though a small percent of total Muslim population is radical, deadly and vicious--make no mistake--THAT LEAVES AN EXTREMELY
LARGE NUMBER OF TERRORISTS; roughly the equal to the entire population of the United States.
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In both of the above instances LEADERSHIP makes the difference.
