My man Stanley Crouch does it again.He nails it on this article.As we worship sneakers,celebrity and jewelry.The real world is
falling apart.I've never been able to relate to gangs and gang culture,but that does'nt mean I ignore the issues of gangs and the issues that plague society.It all boils down to Parenting & Education.There is a deplorable,lack of respect for learning and self esteem is at a all time low for young people.For them it's easier to just drop out of school and isolate themselves from the real world.We worry about Celebrity nonsense,Gucci,Prada,Jewelry & other BS.But we won't take the time to read with our children,check their homework and teach them how to cook.I'll go so far as to say Ladies:Stop having these unwanted kids.
Men:Stop running away from you responsibilities.To both,if you don't have the financial/mental/emotional resources to be a parent then don't bring another life into a world of hurt and despair.These unwanted children are the gang members,drug dealers & murderers of tommorow.Please peep Stanley Crouches article below:
THE TERRORISTS ARE ON YOUR BLOCK
If one waits long enough, word gets around.
In a recent issue of American Spectator, conservative writer Ben Stein announced that "in the 5-1/2 years since Sept. 11, 2001, there have been roughly 40,000 killings by gangs and gang members in this United States of America, mostly in the African-American and Hispanic sections of large cities." Stein goes on to say that the innocent members of those communities, infant to elderly, "are living in a nonstop reign of terror."
It is good that Stein has noticed this and that he is making clear to his conservative readership that it has kept its head in the sand while thumping its chest and declaring its deep resolve to stand up to terrorism. "Why don't leaders of this country ever address this problem?" he asks. "How can we conservatives," he wonders, "explain how it's conservative to simply ignore the loss of law in our cities?" Good question. As if obliquely addressing the liberal supposed "friends of people of color," Stein throws this one right across the plate, "Is it non-PC to even mention it because the killers are almost always nonwhite?"
I have wondered these same things for years and have come to the conclusion that the black and Latino communities have been left on the chopping block of anarchic urban terrorism because the realities of American life now challenge too many prefabricated opinions based on ideas about victimization or lack of individual drive.
In other words, we can never "blame the victim" because we all should know that so-called minorities are inevitably helpless to stand up against the economic and environmental circumstances that shape them into a decidedly small percentage who actually join gangs and the drug crews responsible for so many cold-hearted murders. On the other hand, if these people had more pluck and a stronger work ethic they wouldn't even be there when the bullets fly, killing innocent people of all ages who actually should be living in the suburbs, watching the carnage with their white neighbors.
Both "visions" are cowardly.
What we need in this time of extraordinary urban and domestic terror is actual leadership focused on the preservation of American lives. One of the first things liberals, conservatives and moderates who would lead need to think about is what they would do if those responsible for nearly 40,000 murders among so-called minorities were not "people of color," but white gang members and drug posses.
This is the deepest racial irony of our time. None of the perpetual arguments or explanations for barbaric behavior are ever made when the perpetrators of hideous crimes are white. For instance, when James Byrd Jr. was murdered by a trio of white men, an all-white jury treated the killers as what they were: conscious predators who had themselves some fun at the cost of another man's life. They were sentenced to death.
But imagine if Byrd had been murdered by three black members of a Texas version of the Crips. Fairly soon, Byrd would have been no more a victim than his murderers.
I think that all of those running for President in 2008 need to confront this issue of national terrorism and tell us what they intend to do about it other than wring their hands. This should be a defining issue for both parties and all political persuasions. It is time for those who would lead to lift their heads from the sand of denial and face the harsh murderous light of anarchic terrorism in the big cities of this country. This issue will make it clear as the summer sun just who is serious about the proven threats to American life and who is not.
By Stanley Crouch/ny dailynews
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