People are making this out to be a racial argument but it if all the variables were the exact same other than color, the same outcome would have still happened. The significant difference is the general lack of respect for authority among youth today. More prominently exhibited by black male youths, but not exclusive to them.
In generations past, society was taught to respect authority (all society) and we didn't feel so emboldened as to disregard instructions given.
But what's more disturbing to me is how this event gets so much attention, when during the same day 8 people in Chicago are shot and one was killed. All of the people involved were black but nothing is mentioned about it on the national media platform. A month ago, 80 people will killed in one weekend, ONE WEEKEND! in Chicago (every one of them black) and very little attention was given to that by the nation at large. We live in a society where violence is glamorized and authority and rules are scoffed at. There is a problem within impoverished communities where these tragedies are happening but nobody wants to talk about them because it doesn't fit the liberal agenda. The root cause in my observation is what seems to be a lack of Hope. That lack of hope stems from the individual lack of responsibility to make changes for one's self.
I grew up poor, some years on welfare, but I didn't allow it to confine me to that existence for eternity. I took it upon myself to find a way to get educated, find a career that made a positive contribution to society and never allowed someone else to control the direction my life would take. Too few today are willing to take the yoke of responsibility upon their shoulders and would rather allow the government to tell them how they must live and what they must accept as their own limitations. It starts with the self realization of what freedom truly means, but then accepting the responsibilities that come with freedom.
This is where the breakdown has occurred, due to fathers not accepting their own responsibility for the children they created, these children do not have the proper role models which are vital to the development of values described above. Some people are astute enough as young adults to find others to fill the role for them, but too many do not.
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08-16-2014, 02:49 PM
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