It sure seems like coming of age passage for black kids is guys go to jail
and gals get pregnant...and everyone else foots the bill.
Posted on 05/28/2021 1:28:59 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The message to African American parents from city leaders, community activists and Black clergy must be resoundingly clear: You are responsible for the actions of your children. Not the mayor, the governor, the police chief, business leaders, school administrators, government agencies or the community at large. You and only you are responsible for your children.
As concerned community members who love the city of Minneapolis, we must not be afraid to ask African American parents questions like these, and hold them accountable for their answers:
It's 10 a.m. on a school day. Why is your son not in class learning the three R's, which is his only way out of crippling poverty?
Why is your son walking or driving around our city unsupervised carrying a firearm or other deadly weapon?
Why is your son a member of a violent street gang and still allowed to live in your home, where he serves as a role model to your younger children?
Building more recreation centers and funding more violence prevention programs will not solve the Black-on-Black violence epidemic that has gripped our city. Only Black parents can stop it.
If African American parents are unwilling to do the most important job they will ever be called upon to do, they must be charged, fined and punished to the fullest extent of the law alongside their criminally delinquent children. After all, such reprehensible behavior was learned and sanctioned at home.
As a 50-year-old African American man whose father grew up in the segregated South, I have witnessed firsthand the long-lasting effects of racism on my own family. So there is no need for my critics to call me "out of touch" or label me an Uncle Tom.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
https://www.startribune.com/solutions-to-street-violence-must-begin-at-home/600062024/
Great Article..
.Meanwhile, the tragic murder of Charlie Johnson, a white University of St. Thomas student caught in the crossfire this past weekend in downtown Minneapolis, is just the latest reminder of how much this issue impacts the entire community.
If Black lives truly matter, African American parents must teach their sons that they are more than a bunch of thugs without impulse control. They are kings, holding the key to the Black community’s survival and future success.
African American parents, train up your sons in the way they should go, and when they are old, they will not depart from it. It all starts in their formative years at home.
Answer back in .380, .38, .357, .45, 9mm, .40, 5.56, 7.62, and if you’ve really had enough, .50.
Unfortunately the black family has been decimated living on the liberal plantation. The gang bangers are long past the control of the single, female headed “family” units. Not to mention, the terrorist Omar is responsible for turning Minneapolis into Mogadishu.
To avoid violence, stay away from Black people.
Until the black parents (no dads for how big a percentage?) stop buying the lies, here is what I go by:
John Derbyshire’s The Talk
There is much talk about “the talk.”
“Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons,” Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: “Her sons were 12 and 8 when Marlyn Tillman realized it was time for her to have the talk,” Gracie Bonds Staples writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Leonard Greene talks about the talk in the New York Post. Someone bylined as KJ Dell’Antonia talks about the talk in The New York Times. Darryl Owens talks about the talk in the Orlando Sentinel.
Yes, talk about the talk is all over.
There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too. My own kids, now 19 and 16, have had it in bits and pieces as subtopics have arisen. If I were to assemble it into a single talk, it would look something like the following.
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(1) Among your fellow citizens are forty million who identify as black, and whom I shall refer to as black. The cumbersome (and MLK-noncompliant) term “African-American” seems to be in decline, thank goodness. “Colored” and “Negro” are archaisms. What you must call “the ‘N’ word” is used freely among blacks but is taboo to nonblacks.
“There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too.”
(2) American blacks are descended from West African populations, with some white and aboriginal-American admixture. The overall average of non-African admixture is 20-25 percent. The admixture distribution is nonlinear, though: “It seems that around 10 percent of the African American population is more than half European in ancestry.” (Same link.)
(3) Your own ancestry is mixed north-European and northeast-Asian, but blacks will take you to be white.
(4) The default principle in everyday personal encounters is, that as a fellow citizen, with the same rights and obligations as yourself, any individual black is entitled to the same courtesies you would extend to a nonblack citizen. That is basic good manners and good citizenship. In some unusual circumstances, however—e.g., paragraph (10h) below—this default principle should be overridden by considerations of personal safety.
(5) As with any population of such a size, there is great variation among blacks in every human trait (except, obviously, the trait of identifying oneself as black). They come fat, thin, tall, short, dumb, smart, introverted, extroverted, honest, crooked, athletic, sedentary, fastidious, sloppy, amiable, and obnoxious. There are black geniuses and black morons. There are black saints and black psychopaths. In a population of forty million, you will find almost any human type. Only at the far, far extremes of certain traits are there absences. There are, for example, no black Fields Medal winners. While this is civilizationally consequential, it will not likely ever be important to you personally. Most people live and die without ever meeting (or wishing to meet) a Fields Medal winner.
(6) As you go through life, however, you will experience an ever larger number of encounters with black Americans. Assuming your encounters are random—for example, not restricted only to black convicted murderers or to black investment bankers—the Law of Large Numbers will inevitably kick in. You will observe that the means—the averages—of many traits are very different for black and white Americans, as has been confirmed by methodical inquiries in the human sciences.
(7) Of most importance to your personal safety are the very different means for antisocial behavior, which you will see reflected in, for instance, school disciplinary measures, political corruption, and criminal convictions.
(8) These differences are magnified by the hostility many blacks feel toward whites. Thus, while black-on-black behavior is more antisocial in the average than is white-on-white behavior, average black-on-white behavior is a degree more antisocial yet.
(9) A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks—around half—will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.
(10) Thus, while always attentive to the particular qualities of individuals, on the many occasions where you have nothing to guide you but knowledge of those mean differences, use statistical common sense:
(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.
(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.
(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).
(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.
(10i) If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving.
(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. “Life is an IQ test.”
(12) There is a magnifying effect here, too, caused by affirmative action. In a pure meritocracy there would be very low proportions of blacks in cognitively demanding jobs. Because of affirmative action, the proportions are higher. In government work, they are very high. Thus, in those encounters with strangers that involve cognitive engagement, ceteris paribus the black stranger will be less intelligent than the white. In such encounters, therefore—for example, at a government office—you will, on average, be dealt with more competently by a white than by a black. If that hostility-based magnifying effect (paragraph 8) is also in play, you will be dealt with more politely, too. “The DMV lady“ is a statistical truth, not a myth.
(13) In that pool of forty million, there are nonetheless many intelligent and well-socialized blacks. (I’ll use IWSB as an ad hoc abbreviation.) You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSBs. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice.
(14) Be aware, however, that there is an issue of supply and demand here. Demand comes from organizations and businesses keen to display racial propriety by employing IWSBs, especially in positions at the interface with the general public—corporate sales reps, TV news presenters, press officers for government agencies, etc.—with corresponding depletion in less visible positions. There is also strong private demand from middle- and upper-class whites for personal bonds with IWSBs, for reasons given in the previous paragraph and also (next paragraph) as status markers.
(15) Unfortunately the demand is greater than the supply, so IWSBs are something of a luxury good, like antique furniture or corporate jets: boasted of by upper-class whites and wealthy organizations, coveted by the less prosperous. To be an IWSB in present-day US society is a height of felicity rarely before attained by any group of human beings in history. Try to curb your envy: it will be taken as prejudice (see paragraph 13).
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You don’t have to follow my version of the talk point for point; but if you are white or Asian and have kids, you owe it to them to give them some version of the talk. It will save them a lot of time and trouble spent figuring things out for themselves. It may save their lives. “
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You must have put in the wrong source. I can’t believe the Red Star Tribune would publish this.
As stated....”Building more recreation centers and funding more violence prevention programs will not solve the Black-on-Black violence epidemic”....
It all begins with the parents...period.
If parents are unwilling to do the most important job they will ever be called upon to do, they must be charged, fined and punished to the fullest extent of the law alongside their criminally delinquent children.....
That should be on a case by case basis.
Back in the 60’s a Judge only allowed a father’s visitation with his two children at the parents home and they had to be there. Because he believed the parents were irreponsibe teaching their own son adult responsibility.
“....It all begins with the parents...period...”
Over 70% of the black babies are born to single mothers and raised without fathers. They come from homes where there is no discipline, no authority, no responsibility taught. They quickly gravitate to gangs to find a sense of belonging and then it goes downhill from there. How does a society break break that cycle?? President Trump had a plan but four years is not long enough to make a dent.
“So there is no need for my critics to call me “out of touch” or label me an Uncle Tom.”
They will anyway.
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South Carolina had the right idea...make the parents responsible...
a few years ago a high school student repeatedly was truant so the local judge punish the mother who ‘couldnt control her’ etc...he made that mother go to school with her daughter and sit in her classes all day for several days/weeks...
or go to jail...
Mr. S&W agrees.
Stop paying women of any color to have more babies.
They are being rewarded for bringing into existence another generation of welfare deadbeats.
Black churches of genuine Christians need to step up to the plate and start demanding accountability from the parents in how they are raising their children.
Without God and the moral compass that faith in Him provides, there is no solution to the problems in the breakdown of the black community.
They need to fix this themselves. It cannot be white people bailing them out again. It won’t be well received either. It would be more effective if it came from within.
Yep. Refer to John Derbyshire’s The Talk: Non-black version.
Responsibility is a fading quality in America. Nobody is to blame for anything. It’s all someone else’s fault.
It sure seems like coming of age passage for black kids is guys go to jail
and gals get pregnant...and everyone else foots the bill.
They don’t want to be fixed.
I am afraid that for the most part, that is true.
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