“If an effort ever was needed to get young black men to put down their guns and settle their disputes in a sensible manner, this is a case that everyone should pay attention to. “
The cultural role of bread winner, father, husband and teacher has been ripped from black men by the nanny state government. If a woman marries one she doesn’t qualify for as much free stuff. If he studies hard and applies himself in school he gets the cr*p beat out of him by his peers. His role models are millionaire drug dealers and rappers who die young from stupidity and testosterone poisoning.
So, they have no purpose other than to pose themselves decoratively in macho mode with guns, drugs and bling. They are human peacocks trying to impress each other because they can’t impress a woman.
I lay this failure at LBJ’s feet. And, I think he chuckles every time a black dies, ‘cause he was that kind of guy.
We often debate who is the worst president, the current Muslim-loving commie, the massively corrupt rapist, the mentally retarded peanut-brain, the commissar of the "war on poverty"... the list goes on and on.
The truth is, every single Democrat president does the maximum amount of damage to the United States that he can do given the historical constraints of his time in office. With the possible exceptions of Kennedy and Truman, this equation fits every democrat president since Wilson (and especially including Wilson).
Do more of these kids have guns, or friends with guns?
Or fathers living in their homes with them?
Guns do what their missing father don’t do.
Protect these boys and affirm their “manhood”.
Well said. To which I'd add: There are simply no decent full-time jobs for anyone living in the inner cities. Fifty years ago, there were choices: work in a mill, in a factory, or perhaps at the railroad.
Today, the choices are: part-time at McDonalds, or...well, that's about it.
This awful jobs situation, of course, doesn't excuse criminal behavior. But it helps explain it.
“The cultural role of bread winner, father, husband and teacher has been ripped from black men by the nanny state government.”
Increasingly common among whites today; we are a couple of decades behind the cultural rot of the ghetto, and many whites are now where urban blacks were in the 60s and 70s.