I'll say.
Posted on 08/13/2011 9:09:31 AM PDT by marktwain
As elected officials, we are shocked and concerned about the senseless violence displayed by the large mob outside State Fair Park last night. On behalf of our city, we apologize to the victims and good patrons who endured or witnessed such horrific behavior.
Sadly, what transpired near State Fair Park last night is only the most recent mob riot spawned by a culture of violence that has been brewing in Milwaukee for some time.
And let’s face it, it also has much to do with a deteriorating African American culture in our city.
Are large groups of Hispanics or Hmong going out in large mobs and viciously attacking whites?
No.
We are reaping the harvest that we’ve sown. How so?
There are repercussions for the staggering illegitimacy rate in our African American community.
There are repercussions for having little to no positive male involvement in the lives of African American children.
There are repercussions for single-parent homes where children aren’t properly supervised, and where they aren’t held responsible for their actions.
There are repercussions for a staggering, decades-long near 50% unemployment rate for African American males in our city.
There are repercussions for having a failing public school system, and an outdated juvenile justice system.
There are repercussions for having one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the U.S., and for having kids raising kids.
The community was shocked when the violent mob of African American youths attacked white people in Kilbourn Reservoir Park on July 3. Then, a few eyebrows were raised at the F-bombs and shocking disregard and disrespect for Milwaukee police officers shown by a large and unruly group of African Americans at N. Richards St. and W. North Ave. last Saturday night.
And now this horrific mob violence near State Fair Park. But for those who live in some city neighborhoods, this violence has been like a steady rain for far too many years now. And the reality is this summer it seems we have five or six shootings each and every weekend!
Unfortunately, this behavior is now all too common in some parts of the Milwaukee community.
Our hearts go out to the older generation of African Americans in this city who remember when their community had one of the HIGHEST marriage rates in the city. Sadly, many of these same residents are now scared of their own children and grandchildren.
Although we hope our law enforcement agencies are able to bring some of the thugs who were involved in these attacks to justice, no amount of millions of dollars in government spending or resources is going to truly address this problem.
We can no longer wish this violence would just go away, and we cannot ignore it; we must see it for what it truly is.
We cannot begin to address the underlying causes of the violence without change. We believe that change must come from within the African American community, where new seeds must be sown.
Maybe we are beginning to see the start of a change in inner city Black culture.
I'll say.
Milwaukee...meet Hyde Park.
This all started with the “Great Society” of the mid 1960s, where fathers were deemed superfluous to the new welfare dependent household. The government deemed itself to be the new “baby daddy”, creating the tragedy of single parent households raising future criminals with no sense of societal responsibility.
Every time government sticks their... uh... appendage into things, it always gets worse.
Is it any wonder why the founders wanted strict limits on government powers?
The “Great Society” was like the Gramscian Marxist handbook on bringing down a society.
At least they're claiming responsibility for part of the problem.
eleanor roosevelt and lbj et al
licensed inner city blacks for self-destruction.
real hope and change only will come thru’ Christ.
I went to “Great America” with fellow Bell System classmates in Lisle, IL
in 1981. It was my first trp to Wisconsin. The blacks in the theme park
were the most ill tempered “humans” I’ve ever had the misfortune to
encounter in person. A USeNIX conference in Cincinnati was a close
second for ill behaved blacks. I’m not interested in returning to either
location. The blacks I met in Birmingham, AL were nice, congenial
people.
Note that this courageous statement has been completely spiked by the MSM.
Whole generations are lost. It’s not going to be pretty over the next 20+ years.
Teachers Unions and Civil Rights Groups Block School Choice for Black Students
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2578582/posts
The NEA exists, it seems, only to overfund failed systems and the non-performance-based salaries of adults at the expense of black students. Nothing prepares black males for life in the real world like graduating from high school and attending college, yet the NEA consistently lobbies against parent choices that lead to black male success.
It is easier for blacks, as a whole, to blame their station in society on white people for slavery than it is to blame themselves for making bad life decisions. Most people who are not black are taught actions have consequences. Young blacks are taught they can do or say whatever and they will be excused. This is why we are seeing a growing number of brazen attacks by groups of young blacks on whites these days. These young black thugs believe there will be no consequences.
Acorn, the Chicago political machine, and other groups (Soros etc.) learned their lesson well, and now are trying to foster this on the American Republic.
What changed in the 1960s was the drug culture. Perhaps you could say that liberal laws let the situation get out of control, but that would be a governmental sin of omission, not commission.
Affirmative action has done more to promote racism in this country than the KKK ever did.
To paraphrase Heinlien, tell that to the city fathers of Carthage.
Martin Luther King, Jr;., said that the Great
Society would destroy the black family, but I am unable to find this a documented record of his having done so.
“There are repercussions for having a failing public school system .. ...”
IMO, a whole lot of the causes of the failure of the public schools can be found in the other evidences of wholesale dysfunction in this litany of complaints.
No male headship, little or no order, no home study, in incentive to learn, etc., etc., etc. And the liberal remedy is more and more and yet more money for schools, and welfare for unmarried mothers .
Agreed...and His name is Jesus
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