Are black leaders refusing to acknowledge
that the buck stops with them?
Fifty years have passed since Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s noble "I Have a Dream" speech bellowed forth down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and into the homes of America. It was not just a speech filled with words to trigger emotions but was a set of guidelines that were meant to lift up a nation of all people to find the better angels in each American.
Each word and each sentence and passage was crafted to remind America about the fierce urgency of now and to hew out a pathway for economic justice and civil rights that would build a bridge of unity across the chasm of America’s divergent cultures.
Yet fifty years later it appears that the finger pointing, and the name-calling and the segregation of the mind and of the spirit and even of the black culture in poor urban areas appears to be more separate and isolated now. Are black leaders refusing to acknowledge that the buck stops with them?
Certainly one can point to the many countless examples of African Americans being able to eat, drink, visit and even pay for accommodation in the hotels and motels across the nation as progress. But is that all that Martin Luther King wanted for all Americans?
Unfortunately, it appears that instead of lifting African Americans from poverty, and providing educational freedom and liberty from the conditions that shackled them as former slaves, in many ways the conditions have worsened. Are race-based excuse baiters covering up the real problems?
In 1963, there were more families who were headed by a father and a mother in the black community. According to the 1965 Moynihan Report in 1960 approximately eight percent of black babies were born out of wedlock. Now the percentage is 72.3 percent as of 2008.
Black children are dying in escalating numbers at the hands of young black murdering thugs. There are not being beaten by racists thugs, or by police using hoses or being lynched by the KKK. Instead, black children are being murdered by their own. Where are the marches and the outcry for the hundreds of black children that were murdered?
In the hometown of President Obama, 108 of the 500 plus murder victims were children who were murdered by blacks in Chicago in 2012.
Was that the fault of white people who were engaging in nefarious racist actions? Of course the answer is no. The real question is, have civil rights leaders been making money off of these problems by refusing to confront them? Are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton afraid to march for the black community’s freedom from this murderous violence?
Why are the fear mongering and race baiters silent about telling the real truth concerning how King’s Dream has gone sideways in the black community, and they are tolerating it.
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When Bill Cosby came(more than once) to Detroit and got out of what I call the "Black Box" and tried to tell them what he thought the problem in the Black community is they more or less shut him up and did't want to here it even in the Black Churches. Detroit is in a shamble, diapair,proverty and bankrupt. They won't listen to anyone, even Pres. Obama.
Unfortunately MLK' s dream hasn't been the dream of those who want to be given everything. Dr. King stated very clearly that his dream was for us to judge one another by the character we display, not by the color of our skin. But in the past two presidential elections we elected a man not because of his character, but because he was black. Now we have an economic crisis facing us because of it.
I have a dream has become I have a nightmare... for the Black family. Abortions among Black teens are 4 times the rate of white teens and almost 5 times the rate for all Black women, verses white women. See:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/abortion-rates-black-teens... and http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/11/3/gpr110302.html.
67% of all Black families are headed by a single parent, verses 25% for non-Hispanic white families. See: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in-single-... The two parent Black Family, headed by a male, was once the nucleolus for strong vibrant Black communities. That nucleolus has nearly disappeared and with it the crime, unemployment, and every other measure of economic and social stability, has climbed out of sight. The status and condition of the Black race has done nothing but deteriorate since Dr. King walked the streets of Selma, Alabama.
"Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery. When blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-blacks to use a gun, and more than twice as likely to use a knife." The single best indicator of violent crime levels in an area is the percentage of the population that is Black. See: http://www.bing.com/search?q=black%20crime%20rates%20in%20america&a.........
By every measure there are serious cultural problems directly related to being Black and living in our inner cities... In spite of all the cultural and governmental programs to provide Black's with equal opportunity, social justice, and a good education, there is something missing, and it is the destruction of the two parent Black family. By every cultural measure Blacks born to married parents, in a stable community, do very well. It is the inner city, single parent family on welfare, that has created a ghetto culture and the abhorrent social conditions that seem to dominate in the Black community. The dignity and social stability that comes from two parent families is lacking the Black culture today... and that is the direct product of Government programs, which discourage Black males from becoming the nucleolus for the Black family and community.
This is by far the best explanation of what is going on in the USA and the world that I have read thus far. And for the record, I am a WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) but had a black room mate in college and lots of good friends who were black, so don't you dare call me a racist.
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