Chicago's Crime and Violence

Crime and violence in Chicago's low income African American neighborhoods will not end until the majority mothers and grandmothers are taught how to properly raise their children.  You may disagree but we African Americans need to end this daily drama of crime and violence.

We could ask the police to come into our homes and arrest our sons, grandsons, and nephews and send them to prison.   We could ask our local government to raise our taxes to fund tutoring and mentoring programs for our boys.   We could also ask charity organizations to go in the homes of young mothers and teach them early childhood development.  There are many things we can do but are not doing.

It all comes down to good parenting.  Many working class and most low income parents have to be taught how to become better parents.  Millions of African Americans became productive citizens because they had good parents, that sent them to good schools, and made sure they were well behave children who got good grades.

The challenge is to marshal the resources and programs that will teach mothers and grandmothers how to raise well behave children who receive good grades in school.

Marc Sims

marcsimschicago@gmail.com

You Never Want A Serious Crisis To Go To Waste

The closing of schools in African American neighborhoods is an opportunity for African Americans to dramatically reduce the crime in our low income neighborhoods. Parents are rightly concerned that their children will have to cross street gang boundaries on their way to and from school.  So I think parents should demand that Mayor Rahm Emanuel, CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett, and Police Chief Gary McCarthy walk their children home from their school every day until the street gangs are removed from their neighborhoods.   

As Mayor Rahm Emanuel, CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett, and Police Chief Gary McCarthy walk through the neighborhoods they will find out where the gangs live and will them legally have arrested.   The young men who want to give up the ganged banger life should be helped to move out of the state of Illinois.   The young who say they want a job should be helped to get a job.  However we must understand every potential criminal is in grammar school right now.

The best long term way to dramatically reduce the crime in Chicago is the help low income women raise well behave boys who read at grade level.  

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."

Rahm Emanuel

Marc Sims

marcsimschicago@gmail.com

Rahm Emanuel vs.Karen Lewis

 

    

 

Rahm Emanuel vs. Karen Lewis is not our fight!   The Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis is fighting for the interests of her teachers, not the interests of Chicago residents.   Mayor Rahm Emanuel's job is to improve Chicago.  If that means pushing out low income African Americans out side of Chicago, thus lowering Chicago's crime problem that's good for Chicago residents.  If Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to weaken the Chicago Teachers Union, now that is the Mayor's fight, and should not be the focus of Chicago residents.

Community leaders, political leaders, and concerned citizens of Chicago should focus on helping low income African American parents raise well behaved children who read at grade level.

Marc Sims

Chicago

marcsimschicago@gmail.com

More Boarding Schools For Wayward Boys

Every future gang banger in Chicago is now attending a public elementary  school.   These boys need to be identified and sent to a down state boarding school.   President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan should send federal dollars to the Illinois State Board of Education to establish boarding schools for boys who live in an environment that creates criminals.   Boarding schools for wayward boys is just one piece of the ending crime in Chicago puzzle .

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass



Marc Sims

viewpointchicago@yahoo.com