I agree with you that education is the key but our black boys not having any, that's our fault not theirs. Our young black men have become what we created. We created these young Frankenstein's and if we want them to value education they must see that we value education.
In order to show a young black boy that you value education you must be willing to let him show you what he knows. Take an interest in what he enjoys doing and he will educate you to the world you live in and not the world you grew up in.
We have failed our young boys unto extinction. We have left them no businesses to inherit, no trust funds to ease their path or no legacy to be proud of. The grown black men and black fathers are the ones that went to prison first and by doing so paved the way for our young black men to join them.
Long before women degrading rap music was prevalent we had grown black men glorifying pimping. We took our young black boys to the theater to see Super Fly, The Mack, Trick Baby and other movies that portrayed black men as sissies, drug dealers, pimps, cowards, snitches and abusers. We left the theater telling our sons' that it was a good movie. We recommended the movies to others.
Children put their emphasis on what they see their parents put theirs in. If the parent is forever chasing money trying to get paid so shall the child chase money trying to be paid. If the child see the parent constantly reading, writing, producing and learning so will the child imitate and emulate.
If the daughter grows up to be a woman of loose morals they will blame the mother for exposing the child to that life when she was young. If the father is a beer drinking woman abuser then his son will in all likely hood become a drinker and woman domineering man.
In biblical terms the head of the woman is the man and the head of man is God therefore the woman can not be held accountable when the black men was initially given the law. The black man has failed his responsibility to his black woman and his black children and especially to his black son.
If the parents objections of being indicted for negligence are correct, right and justified and if black parents claim that they did the best they could under the circumstances present and provided but yet the truth of the matter remains the same that young black boys are extinct then it should stand to reason that the extinction of black boys would have had to occur outside of the home and jurisdiction of the parents.
In some earlier replies some of you showed compassion for the guardians and Shepard's of yester-year. Black/minister leaders and institutions deserve none of your passion because these men knowingly, willfully and with intent accepted the position and title of Shepard and overlord to the people.
They agreed to accept the challenge to represent black people in the halls of power. They accepted the position to speak with authority on the State of Black America. There is nothing to applaud when the Shepard has failed his sheep. There is no applauds for a black America Covenant conceived out of fear, born of ignorance, delivered on a dead end premise and presented D.O.A to 38 million desperate African Americans.
Jesse Jackson, Bishop Larry trotter and Rev James Meeks accepted the responsibility to represent 38 million African Americans and failed. There no applause for failures and grand-standers.
The black women are the only ones holding the black family together as they wait on borrowed time for the black man and organizational grand-standers to negotiate legislation that gives African Americans parity on the playing field of life.
When we elected or chose them they said they could do it. They said they would do it. They haven't done it.
We elect Senators,and state representatives to go to Washington and Springfield to negotiate with the power hitters and decision makers but every time you look around they are back in the neighborhood admonishing black parents, marching, complaining, demanding or micro managing city hall.
They don't deserve an applause for being in the neighborhood when they are suppose to be in the halls of power seeking relief and assistance to the parents back in the neighbor hoods and communities trying to keep the lid on a deteriorating situation until help in the form of legislation negotiated by our black leaders arrive.
Every black man sent to represent black people in the halls of power comes back empty handed, tail between his legs claiming and professing to be a born again minister.
In a game of life and death second place makes us the first losers.
Enoch Mubarak
President & CEO Mubarak Inter-prizes
www.mubarakinter-prizes.com
