There is a wave of pitiful sweeping across our country. I imagine that I will receive some feedback over this content, but you know, call it as you see it. I expect better out of us as a whole, and there are moments when I seriously worry about the population as a whole.
Look, the shooting of that 12 year old kid, the one with the fake gun with the orange cap pulled off the end, waving it around, by himself, in a park, yeah that one...who is responsible there? The cop that got dispatched to a report of a man with a gun? The kid, who did not react correctly fast enough? No, I don't think so in my mind. It was the pitiful ass parenting that let that kid be out in that park alone with that toy. I am not interested in how kids do things we don't want them to do. I raised my own children, and while that is true, there are some bedrock rules they never violated.
Second example, Michael Brown...yeah, I will go back there. Look, he was a thug, just a thug. Can you imagine what a thug he must have been? I mean, the Obama administration's Justice Department did an "independent" investigation (witch hunt) that resulted in clearing the cop. That boy had history, there was verifiable forensic evidence that backed up everything the cop said, and probably eye witness accounts that supported the cop, which will never get played in public. They were already burning the city down. Who is to blame here? Michael Brown. How do I know that it was no surprise, Michael Brown's family.
Full up on Al Sharpton's personal brand of ignorance juice, their behavior illustrated exactly what is failing in most of our communities. There is a sense of entitlement, of something owed to them. There is a public appeal for additional violence and destruction. Where does the behavior come from? It comes from home.
A kid in New Jersey, body slams his teacher over his cell phone. Not allowed to be out in class. Another student, equally wrong, had theirs out and filmed the assault. I watched as the entire classroom moved away, until the end, after the teacher was slammed down, when another punk comes running in to escort his friend away. The best thing I can say of either is that they did not kick the man on the ground.
I watch the news in Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville every night. There is an endless stream of crime, violent, reprehensible crime, committed by people, men and women that are by and large less than 24. Where does this start? Where does the behavior stem from? It stems from home. There is no way to explain to me how a 16 year old has a good home life, when he is riding in a car with his homies, and opens fire on another vehicle, shooting and infant and killing her.
Then, inevitable, there will be some barely intelligible interview with a woman, who claims they just don't understand, he is such a good boy. No, he had the potential to be a good boy. But, being left to his own devices and in the presence of undesirable influence, he failed in his potential. And, it is up to the parents. I completely understand that many of these events are associated with broken homes, often a result of drug related incarceration. Many of these situations include a history of foster care and being "in the system."
That is what is pitiful. And I feel for our judges. What a choice, leave them with some of the most worthless, drug addicted scumbag parents, cooking meth with their kids in the house, or dump them in the system, and watch the system create much the same output that horrible parental situation would create. Not even Solomon would find that appealing.
It is pitiful that we have allowed entrenched poverty in this nation, create these conditions and situation. I do not see a racial component, or a tie across the specifics of these cases that is ethnically identified. It is about poverty, fractured families reinforced by an entitlement system that penalizes familial stability. It is about the poor preparation our public schools now provide, for anyone but a dedicated student. There is almost no skills training or vocational counselling and programs available. You see, there is a tangible impact to the quality of schools to the neighborhoods they serve. Show me a "bad" neighborhood, and I will show you a string of bad schools.
If you have no future, if you have no preparation, if you have been socially promoted without regard to literacy or accomplishment, if you have been instructed in a series of arcane facts that are assembled in a core curriculum, if you are never introduced to problem soving and critical thinking skills, you are doomed. There is nothing for you to do but the drive through window, or a paving or roofing crew. And, if the school system cares more about your standardized test scores than your employability or capacity, you are poorly served.
We have made it substandard for our children to want to be a mechanic, or plumber, or welder. That is not considered a desirable outcome. We only see the value in continued and detailed education that we have priced out of the middle class' range. Why does the issue of poverty remain unchecked? We have built a system that requires abject poverty for assistance, with no requirement for training or improvement in life skills. So, to survive on assistance, you have to not be employable, you have to continue to grow your family. You cannot have a relationship that is public with someone working or earning, or you risk the only income you have.
That is the system we have created. That is the future as well. Either we get serious about combatting our poverty issues, or get used to how your news sounds today because it only magnifies from here. If we were to require corporations that receive subsidies to provide 1% of that in community training and employment improvement, we would build a work force that rivals what we had in the 50's. If we required every school system to have a vocational program for every sport it offered, we would have the basis of a working population again. If we made education free, we would be the standard of the world again.
Why is this pitiful? Because we have made a system that builds poverty and ignorance, and we don't even see it. Instead, we couch it in terms of racism and illegal immigration and unjust incarceration. That is pitiful, and we will not fix it this way.
GLYASDI
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