November 8, 2011 11:51:32 PM EST
I think there is violence in the community because of lack of quality education, lack of compassion and love for ourselves and others, lack of a strong community business base and wrong teaching when it comes to God and Jesus Christ. It is not poverty, because we have always been poor in money but never poor in spirit as we are now.
Lack of education: Did you know in these violent areas, if a child made straight A's all through high school, they may get into college but what they learned in high school is not enough to sustain them in college. Merely education is not the key. SOLUTION: We need to teach our own children. Jews, whites and even now Hispanics have their own schools. Education is too important to be left to a government system that hates us. Carter G Woodson said we are being mis-educated. So we need to educate our own. We may be too lazy to start and sustain our own schools. We cry for the government to get right and treat us right and you know that is not going to happen. I agree with Devita, our churches are not doing enough. There are Christian (white) schools, Jewish schools, Catholic schools, etc. We even send our kids to these other schools and damage our children because they do not see themselves in anything at these schools. We need to teach our own children. Only we can love them, understand them, thus educate them.
Lack of compassion and love for ourselves and others: Deborrah said that religion is the culprit, but I say NO. For example, The Bible teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves. We are not practicing what we claim to believe! And most youth don't attend church regularly like we used to do growing up. As believers in Jesus Christ, we must go back to the Book and be doers of God's word and not just hearers deceiving our own selves, (James 1:22). As Minister McNeil said, we are the people in Deuteronomy 28:15-68. We sing about being “blessed in the city” (Deut. 28:1-14) but when you read the curses, you will truly see what we are living. We as a people need to REPENT (turn from our wicked ways) and honestly SEEK God.
Lack of a strong community business base: Business is the basis for the economic system for a community. Everyone else has this base but us. Hispanics, Asians, Arabs, etc. all have this economic base and most of them are siphoning our money to build and sustain their base. Strong businesses will give youth jobs, training and skills they need to excel. I know we don't expect these other groups to employ our kids, they have their own kids to employ. I am not including the majority here because as adults we already go to them to sustain us. We desperately need to have our own economic base for our youth to stop turning to violence. It is not the youth's fault that we have lost BILLIONS in the hair care industry to Asians. Those are BILLIONS that can be used to create jobs, schools, banks, etc. to build and sustain OUR economic base.
Wrong teaching about God and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! (Visit my blog here on this topic because it is a whole topic unto itself and I want to stay) true to the question here!
So teach our own children, love our neighbor as we love ourselves, and create an economic base and develop a personal relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (not just go to church) and the violence will end. We have never tried these methods all together at the same time. We used to teach our own children. Then we used to have an economic base until integration. We only have had “freedom” in this country since 1965 or so. Before that, we were not allowed to read which hindered us from knowing the TRUE word of God. We only went by what the Pastor heard. We won't know if this combination will work unless we TRY it and put it into practice. It will definitely get us further along than we already are.
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