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Racism,
Or our values:
Which is hurting us more? ©2017
Few African Americans will be criticized if they blame racism for most of our problems. When Remember when Jesse Williams spoke about racism at the BET Awards show? He received a standing ovation. He also was elevated to near sainthood status. Even noted black writers wrote poems praising him.
But here’s the thing. Talking about racism to a mostly black audience is easy stuff, and it will always get a favorable response.
What will not get a standing overation, however, is any discussion about what we keep doing to each other 24/7/365. When this subject is broached, no standing ovations will be forthcoming. That’s because we’ve been amazenly conditioned and convinced by horrible black leadship to believe we are eternal victims.
But previous generations of black leaders, and ordinary Blacks, didn’t portray us as victims. Dr.King and the Civil Rights Movement he led didn’t see themselves as victims. Despite racism, Elijah Muhammad, of the Nation of Islam, encouraged Blacks to do for self. Malcolm X did the same thing and encourage Blacks to set up businesses in our community and to be reluctant to allow others to come in and take over the economy in our neighborhoods.
All of them got their motivation from Marcus Garvey, who got his motivation from Booker T. Washington, his idol. Washington didn’t eschew politics, but he thought the key to real black power was in economics.
Back to the question. “Racism or our values. Which is hurting us more in 2017?”
Allow your basic, common sense dictate the answer. For example, if recent reports are true, that a 15-year-old girl in Chicago was gang raped by teens, and that the incident was streamed live on Facebook, and that no one called the police, is a new low, that’s even lower than the previous low in morality.
If that’s not bad enough, we’re killing each other as if there’s an undeclared civil war in urban America. Yet the only things we tend to get excited about are Donald Trump and police shootings. Any and everything else, we tend to ignore, or act as if it’s just a bad dream.
For their parts, most African Americans are decent, law-abiding citizens. They learned to respect others, respect life, respect the law, and they were taught the value of education and hard work. Yet, a minority of African Americans never got the “values memo” from their parents.
As a result, they are willing to carjack for a living, kill other Blacks over dumb arguments, kill girlfriends who realized they made a mistake by hooking up with a nut job, kill others over with opportunity all around them, that group of Blacks has been conditioned to see themselves as victims. racism is always blamed.
No thanks to this group, bad parenting, and the influence of rap, our culture has become infected and is in trouble. Will we man-up and woman-up? Will we stop the denials, the excuses and deal with our reality?
Our reality is that the places we live have become extremely violent and lawless whether we live in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, Birmingham, or Flint. We are shooting and killing each other like it’s our sole mission in life, and we can’t blame Trump for this.
Too many parents have been passing off their flawed values on to their children, and that’s the root of the problem.Traditional values, as in the 10 Commandments, used to be taught religiously to children by their parents. Those values meant respect for yourself, your parents and your neighbors. They also meant a belief in God, a good work ethic, honesty, good manners, etc.
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