Black on Black Violence Again Song
Black Crime: Facing Down the Elephant in the Room
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Posted: April 12, 2022 12:01 AM
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I recently wrote about the mysterious killings of endangered white rhinos in S Africa's Pilanesberg Park years ago. The killers turned out to be gangs of ambitious teen elephants who, raised without fathers or role models to "curb their youthful exuberance," grew up to be troublemakers. The delinquents fell in line after park staff relocated adult male elephants to the park who "kicked barrel" with the compassion of a male parent and established a new bureaucracy.
The violence and killings of white rhinos stopped.
I compared the immature elephants to immature blacks in urban cities who were raised without fathers or healthy role models and have grown up extremely violent and extremely dysfunctional. That dysfunction is passed downwards to succeeding generations because rather than making the hard decisions to accurately define and solve the problem, leaders and activists excuse the bad behavior past blaming all the mayhem on slavery and Jim Crow. The bulletin? "Information technology's not your error."
How's that working?
Blacks are a 3rd of the population in Chicago but commit lxxx percent of all shootings, author Heather Mac Donald told Tucker Carlson on a recent prove. In Los Angeles, blacks commit 44 pct of all vehement crime but make upward ix percent of the population. In St. Louis, blacks are less than a third of the population but commit 90 pct of all homicides. In New York City, blacks commit about three quarters of all shootings although they're 23 percent of the population.
On Monday lonely, 16 people were shot and two killed in Chicago, a urban center led by blacks. Two teenage black girls killed an Uber Eats driver in D.C. during a foiled carjacking. A pocketknife-wielding black man, 25, was shot dead later he rammed his car into a barricade at the Capitol, killing one policeman. A deranged blackness man who had been released from prison house afterwards killing his mother was caught on camera kicking, stomping, and chirapsia a random 65-year-onetime Asian woman, while others, including a security baby-sit, watched.
With all the talk of structural racism, disinterestedness, and white supremacy, violence has not only gotten more brash, but it'south becoming institutionalized. Yet, if the woke crowd were successful in transforming the country into an "anti-racist" paradise, we would still exist low-cal years away from fixing the dysfunction and disparities in urban cities.
Blaming black crime on slavery and Jim Crow completely ignores the elephant in the room.
"We need to exist courageous and come up up with culling explanations that are hard to articulate but they must be said," McDonald told Tucker.
Corey Brooks, pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago, has spent the past few years getting his hands dirty with an "alternative caption" that is slowly transforming one of the most violent neighborhoods in Chicago. Rather than blaming cops, he's laser-focused on tackling urban criminal offence at its root: broken families.
In the new documentary "What Killed Michael Dark-brown?" Shelby Steele and his son, Eli, spoke with Pastor Brooks, who ready his church in 2000 in the heart of Woodlawn, Illinois. It's at present a congregation of ii,500.
"I believe the church building is the hope of the earth," said Brooks. "What greater place that needs that hope than a place that's experiencing high levels of crime [and] broken families? We've seen a lot of young guys in the neighborhood who don't value their lives. A lot of it is a result of non having someone to encourage them that 'You can practice better,' … But if you don't have those messages going forrard, information technology's hard for you to value life when everybody is shooting and killing."
That was true for ex-Black Disciples gang leader Varney Voker who, as a child, watched his mother smoke weed and deal drugs. He wanted to exist like her. But he did better. Voker grew up to build a crack-heroin concern that brought in $60,000 a day.
Legendary in Chicago every bit ane of "The Bentley Twins" (he and his twin blood brother drove Bentleys), Voker told Steele about how he returned from an 11-year prison judgement to observe his quondam neighborhood under new leadership. While looking for one-time connections to rebuild his empire, Voker's friend told him he had to go to the church building.
"I'g like, who am I meeting?" he said, recounting the story. "Guy (said), 'Y'all meeting the pastor.' I said, 'I don't want to talk to no pastor, bro, I only came home. He goes, 'No, y'all have to talk to him because he runs the neighborhood now.'"
When they finally met, the pastor said to the ex-gang leader: "OK, um, I know who you are; I heard a lot about you lot – glad to meet you home, simply I'chiliad the new sheriff in town."
By making himself the "biggest elephant in the room," Brooks established a new hierarchy in Woodlawn where young blacks saw him as a begetter figure. Over the years, Brooks has created an environs where young people tin learn a trade, go self-sufficient, and be part models for others. Information technology is this painstaking cycle of creating and reproducing office models that Brooks believes volition transform the neighborhood. In fact, he wants Woodlawn to exist the petri dish that will offering proof that urban areas nationwide tin can abound themselves out of dysfunction and shut crippling disparities.
"It'southward easy to say, 'the white man, the white man' when in reality we need to accept a closer expect at ourselves," he told Steele. "We're telling them educationally – you've got to get it together. Economically, you've got to get it together. Family unit and spiritually, you take to go it together. And you have to take responsibility."
Information technology is the Corey Brooks of the world – not the Cory Bookers – who will do for troubled urban cities what trillions of government dollars, aroused protesters, and pampered TV pundits take failed to exercise. They ignore the elephant in the room, then make books and monuments to themselves about the bug they created and pretended to solve.
Simply men like Pastor Brooks stare the elephant in the middle, hammer stakes in the ground, and commit to the dingy, back-breaking labor of changing the destiny of generations of broken homo beings.
If America is lucky, Brooks and people like him, just may be replicating an regular army of men and women in their own images.
Writer's notation:Pastor Corey Brooks' outreach arm, Projection H.O.O.D. (Helping Others Obtain Destiny), is raising individual funds to build a community heart that will house a charter school, skills training, and recreational opportunities. For more information, go to www.projecthood.org.
Source: https://townhall.com/columnists/willalexander/2021/04/12/black-crime-facing-down-the-elephant-in-the-room-n2587658
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