“I have a dream...”
What a sad, sorry fiasco all this is. I want to repost something I put on another thread this morning
Geraldo did a point / counterpoint type piece last night on Fox News. A black woman and a black man. The woman advocated for two parent homes and raising children to present as respectable human beings. She was articulate, clear and logical (talked white, I guess is the common parlance)
The man dismissed that... “can’t make that happen with a magic wand.” His solution was mentoring...getting fraternities and sororities (I infer these to be community organizations) to step in in loco parentis. His solution seemed to be anything BUT two parent families.
The woman pointed out how strange was the uproar over Freddie Gray in light of, I believe eight young black males being killed by black males in Baltimore in the past week. And that for the first time in history, the leading cause of 12 year old black males is murder.
It was a pretty good back and forth, except Gerry interrupted in the middle to run a different piece on rebuilding neighborhoods burned out in 1968. I believe I heard him say that she had been a caller on his radio show. She was awesome. One last thing I recall...She and her HUSBAND raised a son in NYC who had never been accosted, questioned, patted down or arrested. She stated that that raising included teaching their son to act as a respectable human being in the way he dressed, spoke and interacted with other human beings.