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BLACK AMERICA: A cure for what hurts
By Attorney Roy Miller
The problems facing Black America are many. Some say that we are lost.
When one finds ones self lost, he retraces his steps to the point most familiar
and moves forward from there. To find a point of Black Pride, low crime rates
and ultimate respect within families, the familiar point is 1968. In the
1968 era, we had pride, a low crime rate and we had heart. Surely Black
America looked a lot different in 1968, than it looks today. Today, we
hear the phrase "Black on Black Crime" all the time. The phrase was
not familiar in the 1968 era. After all, less than 100,000 Blacks were
incarcerated back then. As the year of 2000 approached, the number moved
upward towards 1,000,000. In 1968, Blacks accounted for about 35% of the
incarceration rate and Whites accounted for around 65%. What happened in
the last thirty some years?
What was special about the 1968 era? Why was there so
much unity and love? Why was there so much respect between parent and
child, regarding what was worn around each other and what was said? Why
were there so much respect and pride between principal, teacher and student in
the segregated school systems? What in the heck was there to celebrate?
Considering the brutal treatment that Blacks experienced as slaves and the
common diet of pork and scraps, the Black race in America should have eventually
died out from stress, strokes, high blood pressure and depression. In the
1968 era, why were we shouting for joy? We had no money, no political
power, little judicial equity and we lacked a fertile garden for our Black seeds
to grow. In 1968, what was it that held our race together? It was
God. God was the glue that held us together. We had God and God let
us know that he was all that we needed. God was all that we had;
therefore, our journey forward could only succeed with God being first.
The price that Black America paid in desegregation is that we
dropped God a couple of spots down on our top ten priority list. As other
races accepted us more, we felt less a need for God. We never really resisted
taking God out of the schools, even though our children needed God most.
In 1968, there was a bible or religious symbol in the living room of almost
every Black household. We seldom see those religious symbols today. We
eventually started wearing sexy clothing in the presence of our children, where
prior to 1968 we wouldn't allow our children to see us half dressed.
Eventually, fathers felt comfortable seeing their daughters half naked and
mothers felt comfortable seeing their teen sons in underwear. These were
no-no(s), prior to 1968. In 1968, before children could get a cuss word
out, a parent would say "shut your mouth". These days, parents
join in with children and enjoy the profanities and sexual stimulation presented
through music and video. There is no separation between parent and child.
Today, we curse our children with profanities, instead of blessing them with
words of praise. Our ancestors died so that we could be looked upon with
respect, yet we fight for the right for children to call each other the n-word
and other profanities. Some say that their children have a constitutional,
"Freedom of Speech" right to use profanity. Parents control the
vocabularies of their children. Freedom of Speech is not an issue in a
parent disallowing a child to use profanity. A child's proper upbringing
is a parent's responsibility. In school systems, there are laws that
discipline children for using profanity in the wrong place and at the wrong
time. Parents have a legal and moral obligation to raise children in the
right way and not contribute to the delinquency of children.
We Black parents need to demonstrate to our children
religious values. The time will come that our children will need more than
people to sustain the pains of life. We must demand that our children
attend school everyday, starting at pre-school. Only something serious
should serve as a valid excuse for absence. We need to demand that
children respect adults and we should demand that adults respect our children.
We should never let our children think that it is acceptable to walk around
letting us see their behinds and we should never flaunt our half dressed bodies
in their presence. We should install in our children that going to jail is
never desirable. Jail serves as a return to slavery like conditions.
Blacks should never want to return to the conditions of slavery. We should
install in our young people the reality that all races somewhat believe that
"birds of a feather, fly together". Who you hang with does
matter. Hang with troublemakers and you will eventually get caught in the
net trying to capture those troublemakers. We must impress upon our
children to find space in their hearts for everyone of every race. We must
impress upon our children that in life, unless in serious need to defend life,
violence is never an option. Stealing and killing are unacceptable.
We must insist that our children always do their best and we must be proud of
them for doing their best. Whether that best is better than most or less
than most, we should be just as proud because we know that they are doing their
best. We must find time to personally assist our children in study.
After seeing what we want our children to become, we should also
become that person. We have got to call on God to help us at
resisting temptations that destroy us and our race. We are all victims of
sin. Sinning is intoxicating, but judgment has a sobering affect.
Without God, we are no match for evil. The first act of total unity that I
feel Black America must come together and stand is the demand that our children
be allowed to openly praise and thank God in school. After all the
blessings and protections that God has given us and our children, how dare we
teach our children to treat God with the symbol of embarrassment or disrespect.
Does God understand when we put him second to man's desire? Is man
challenging God as to who we respect as supreme? We order God out of our
children's school and to what source of influence do we leave? After
becoming again the people that God desires us to be, we can better complain
about injustices and challenge the wrongfulness in the world around us. We
can then fight for justice and equality, knowing that our house is in order.
I know that God will answer our calls, when our house is in order. We must
accomplish the standard that God expects. I feel that the standard is
"doing the very best that we can do and placing God first ".
After meeting that standard, expect miracles. It is at that time when
doubt shall rest and you will see for yourself, God at his best.
Attorney Miller is the only person to succeed at having the
n-word deleted from a major dictionary. He is the primary attorney for RCI.
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