An Embarrassed African American Community?

African American "leaders" should be embarrassed by the criminal activity by Black male youth mobs. The entire African American community should be embarrassed about the crime our young men are committing crime in our neighborhoods and downtown.  Some of these young men have to be stopped, redirected, and retrained.   Others need to be incarcerated or institutionalized.

We could waste time in an analyses of racism, deindustrialization, fatherless homes and so on, but what, and who will stop young African American men from committing crime.    I hoped Mayor Rahm Emanuel  would make Chicago safe, but I began to have doubt when the Mayor told NBC's Harry Smith; kids are growing up in an environment in parts of the city that you wouldn't let your own kids grow up in. There's no sense of life, and there's an emptiness in their eyes that you don't know if you can change.

African American politicians probably feel the same way.   They may tell you privately; I'm legislator not an educator, or someone's mama or daddy.   I can't stop this crime, yah'll need to call the police!   At some degree they are right but who is going to call the police on their son, grandson, or nephew?   Who is going to start valuing education when you are surrounded by hopelessness and ignorance?  Who is going to come from upon high and give low income residents of Chicago the belief that they can live in a crime free neighborhood?

I once read Mayor Emanuel does not like to hear problems, but he likes to hear solutions.  So here are a few suggestions for the Mayor.   Encourage mothers and grandmothers not to let their boys just hang out.   They must only be involved in structured activities.   These boys need to be taught how to read.   They need to be taught how to think.  They need to be taught a skill and a work ethic.   If African American boys are allowed to just hang out the crime in Chicago will continue.

Marc Sims

viewpointchicago@yahoo.com

The Consent Of Criminal Activity

How can we make your neighborhoods safe when some mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and uncles allow and condone their son's, grandson's, or nephew's criminality? Marc Sims viewpointchicago@yahoo.com

Neighborhood Criminals

Neighborhood criminals tend to come from fatherless and destabilized homes. Every future criminal is now attending a neighborhood public school.

I have been trying for years to persuade African American citizens to persuade their children and or their grandchildren to delay having children. I believe some people should not have children. I also believe a single young mother with multiple children could be trouble for any low income African American neighborhood.

What do you think?

Marc Sims
viewpointchicago@yahoo.com


“Family life is no longer about playing the social role of father or husband or wife, it’s more about individual satisfaction and self-development,” said Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/for-women-under-30-most-births-occur-outside-marriage.html?pagewanted=all

The Nature Of The Content

I was a career day speaker at a Chicago Public School last year. This year I was disinvited.

Mr. Sims,

We would like to thank you for dedicating your time to this year's career day. Unfortunately due to the nature of the content that you presented to our young warriors last year, we are going to decline your request to present at this year's career day.

We hope you understand.


I agree the content of my presentation is a bit much for your students, and for most African Americans in general. I know I'm like a Black Power-Race Man from the 1970's. Also understand it is sometimes not what you say but how, when, and where you say it.

However, someone has to be the "bad cop", and tell young African Americans about the challenges they will face as adults. The talented tenth, the Black Bourgeoisie, and the pseudo bourgeoisie, cannot, will not, or are afraid to tell young African Africans the truth!

Here the truth; integration, assimilation, consumerism, deindustrialization, ignorance, selfishness, and self-hatred has rendered the African American community to Humpty Dumpty status.

You also know the truth! Only 8% of CPS students will obtain a four year college degree by their mid twenties. 70% of African American children are born out of wed lock. 70% of African American women are single. The list of challenges for African American men, women and children goes on and on in this "post racial" society.

As a people, African Americans will be around, but as a people we will be irrelevant. So the challenge for young African Americans is to figure out how successful can they be as an individual. Young African Americans will, like all African Americans have, consciously or unconsciously make the choice to how much they will integrate and assimilate into the American main stream society. The choice is to become homogenized or to be marginalized.

I made the choice to tell truth and became marginalized.


Marc Sims
Chicago
http://marcsims.blogspot.com/

I believe, as I suspect most people do, that the potential for change among human beings is virtually limitless. But I also believe----- and my work on this book has strengthened this belief---- that it takes a truly exceptional person to transcend his or her social environment and that we are shaped (and limited) by our backgrounds and by the thinking of our generation more than we know or are comfortable admitting, even to ourselves.

Ellis Cose
The End of Anger

Value Education

Should higher income African Americans teach lower income African Americans "how to act" and help them teach their children to value education?


Marc Sims
Chicago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHOYzsr-UW0

Summer Of Peace?

Is it the responsibility of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and music radio station general managers to make our neighborhoods safe?

Will we have a summer of peace?

Marc Sims
Chicago

Boarding Schools Instead Of Prisons

I truly believe low income public schools will dramatically improve if a few wayward boys are sent off to a boarding school. I believe crime in low income neighborhoods will dramatically decline if a few wayward boys are sent off boarding schools.

Do you think boarding schools can turn wayward boys into men of great substance?

Do you think boarding schools for boys will be more cost effective than prisons for men?

Marc Sims
Chicago