anotherlook

This is something that needs to stop in the black communities; this insistence to commit crimes and illicit fear in the hearts and minds of society at large. Killing people, stealing and assault, makes people feel that war is happening right here at home. This makes no sense, the crimes are getting, more and more, violent and more and more senseless and it is not conducive to the establishment of peace.

Black Americans need to clean up their neighborhoods, their lives and their children because these very children are reflecting back at you and with the job that I have, I see a violent, disrespectful, foul mouthed “you” and it is disturbing and embarrassing to witness the levels of ugliness black youth display.

Now, in Raleigh, North Carolina, this 20-year old “wannabe thug” by the name of Larry Whitfield, with no prior record, decided to rob a bank, which did not work because the bank staff must have seen them carrying semiautomatic rifles and locked the security door as the men approached, leaving them stuck outside.

They fled but crashed their car on the interstate and in his efforts to get away he ran into a 79-year old woman’s house and literally scared her to death. Mary Parnell actually had a heart attack caused by the fear she was feeling in the presence of this uncontrolled, uninvited youth.

So he walks away with no money from the bank and ends up in jail for murder in the commission of a felony, along with the other charges, if convicted he could get life without possibility of parole, and his life is wasted from this day forward.

Now according to MSNBC news, this lady’s autopsy said, she had an enlarged heart, was overweight and had advanced liver disease, kidney disease, hypertension, heart disease and was a diabetic and this 20-year old is going to jail because the woman went into cardiac arrest after he broke into her home.

Yes, it’s been a long hard struggle, here in America, but now is not the time to give up or give in. Stop cursing, drinking and drugs, stop showing your kids the worst side of life, have some respect about yourself even when America does not have respect for you because what you are essentially doing is personifying the attitude that America has for you by creating these mini attitudes reflecting back at you.

They spend so much time watching videos and listening to rap, intensifying the attitude and thinking that the world is like the music – which to an extent it is. My question is does the music portray what’s real in every American’s life or just the narrow world’s we live in as blacks.

Expand your minds and pass it on to your kids, search for the positive even when things are hard, recognize what others have sacrificed for your future in America and be grateful for the leap that has occurred. Yeah it has been a struggle but maybe not in vain but sometimes your actions make it hard to accept you or even want to be around you; it’s time we as black Americans take pride in who we are and stop all the violence that has become a way of life in our neighborhoods all across America.

You use the “n” word so much in your homes, your children come out in the real world and throw that word around, in mixed company, and people begin to think that it is an acceptable way to approach a black man and then you turn around and get mad because someone has called you out of your name.

You call your women a “b” and your sons begin to believe all women are “b”s and so they start showing young girls the disrespect that word evokes. You curse when in general conversation, thinking that makes you a man and your kids come out in the streets doing the same.

As for the women raising kids on their own, bring strange men around the kids you have at home. Sometimes these men talk to your daughters like they are grown and in turn your daughters come out in the world thinking they have some prize that all men want to own. It’s a sad state of affairs in our neighborhoods and homes. It’s time for a change and only you as parents can achieve this change.

Michael Jackson once said, “If you wanna make the world a better place take a look at yourself and make a “change” never were there truer words spoken.

And that’s the way I see it!!!