I’ve become friends with some of the guys at my employers warehouse. All black men.
One is sort of the elder statesman of the warehouse. I’ve seen him pull younger ones aside and give them some fatherly wisdom. As an elder statesman should do.
The other day I found out that a couple of them have set up a neighborhood basketball day once a week at a church. Four black men pay for the rental and don’t tell the others.
He told me their goal is to show and teach young black men how to be men. The other day one got all mad because another fouled him. He didn’t like being dissed.
My friend pulled him aside and first told him in no uncertain terms the bodily damage that would occur if he tried anything.
Then he calmed the kid down and asked him just what he would do after killing the guy for fouling him. He told him about the police cameras and all the Ring cameras in every direction. How he has absolutely no chance at freedom after doing violence and that’s not how men are to act.
The whole conversation gave me new respect for my friend. Black men don’t need excuses. They need mentors.
“My friend pulled him aside and first told him in no uncertain terms the bodily damage that would occur if he tried anything.”
This guy is going to mentor these young black men away from violence by threatening to do more violence to them than they will do to someone else. Excellent strategy. Just curious, how many times have you and your new black friend been to each other’s house for dinner?
We need more men like that, period.
Mentors and real fathers. Fathers should be mentors.
Wow! What a great story. Thanks for sharing. Yes, we need much more of this.
I had the exact same conversation with a white kid who was growing up in a mafia neighborhood. Monkey see, monkey do. He ended up in jail anyway, where he was beaten severely by the "amish."
Killing is wrong. Instead of asking the kid what he would do after killing someone (for literally no reason), he should have started with, Thou shalt not kill. I thought the black community was primarily Baptist? "Wussup wit dat" in the black community? And why is there a "black community" in the first place? That's really the only Dumb Democrat identity-politics group that is referred to as a "community." Why is that? You hear almost nothing about the "asian community," white community, hispanic community, european community, african community, russian community, or whatever. Only the "black community." Even black leaders such as Al Sharpton always refer to themselves as their "black community." There's something seriously wrong with a so-called "community" when you have to always refer to it as a "community" in our melting-pot nation. Again, identity politics.
Another bad message is saying to the kid, Hey you don't want to kill that guy for fouling you in basketball or for "dissing" you ... because there are police cameras and Ring cameras all around you that will video you (and then you'll get caught). That could incentivize wild thugs into making sure they commit all their crimes out of sight of surveillance cameras so they don't get caught.
But at least he's making some kind of attempt.