It has bothered me to watch the news about Ferguson. For most of her life, my daughter has grown up in a world where blacks and whites got along and where color was becoming a lesser distinction between people. She said it made it more interesting than living in a world where everyone was the same. Now, I see this changing back to how it was long before she was even born.
When Barack Obama was elected, there were those who felt that lifted any final chains for the ones who might still be clinging to what happened over a hundred years ago. If being president was the greatest thing a black man could aspire to, we knew it was no longer out of reach. I didn't think that because I felt like I knew what he and the Democrats were up to but I gave him the benifit of the doubt. It didn't take long to see my original feelings were correct.
I want to remind folks that slavery still exists in parts of the world and that America was the first country to abolish it. There wouldn't have been slavery to the extent that there was if blacks didn't sell their own out of Africa. It is past time to stop blaming what happened long ago on people who live today and who had nothing to do with it. Life isn't easy for most people but we have a good shot at having a decent life if we are willing to educate ourselves and work hard. It doesn't matter what color of skin you have if you decide to fail and live off of the work of others then that is what you will have and be.
I watch children come into families that are low life drug culture oriented with no morals and I know they don't have much of a chance to get out of the only world they know unless someone takes an interest to show them the way out. I have been acting as youth pastor every other Sunday and trying to reach out to the kids who are starting out without much hope. Some of them are so precious and talented. They are smart beyond their years because of what they have already seen in life and learned to survive it. If I can save even one future Michael Brown then it will be worth the time. God spoke to me and said, suffer not the little children and let them come unto me. With every spare minute I can find that is where I will be and I am writing to encourage others to do the same.
The people that the news delighted themselves to show in Ferguson do not represent black families across America and it worries me to think that is how people may begin to see us. The race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson are in there stirring things up along with the Communists acting like they are doing something good for black people. If they wanted to do something good they would address the lifestyles that breed the Michael Browns of the world. Change won't come for the good until we have a leader ready to stand up and point out the truth. Black families have been manipulated by Democrat policies to the point that they have become entrapped in them. The only chains that bind blacks in America today are the ones put around their minds. The use of hate as a driving emotion is evil and destructive. Only the love of God may be the answer to turn ghettos into decent neighborhoods. First the people need to find personal decency and then their judgement about who the enemy really is will be on the right course.
It was found that the officer shot in self defense. That is no reason to riot and protest violently. If the energy was spent against those who manipulated to cause the situation that brought him to be who he was instead, maybe we might save the next young black man from the same end.
Anyone remember the "Great Society", that grand experiment? Imho, there are only two ways to look at that program;
1) It has failed in it's stated mission.
2) It has completely met it's actual, unstated mission; The destruction of the Family.
Mike Brown is just one of millions, o...
It's a ploy, distraction.