Once children reflect negative imprinting from their parents or suffer negative imbalance from being raised by one parent-their world becomes aberrant and unhinged. They crave identity and appreciation. They will find it one way or the other. Some find it in sports and dream of becoming the next Shaq in the NBA. However, most find it quickly in gangs, drugs, sex and crime.
Without education and positive self-concept, as well as job discrimination""millions of American Blacks struggle for a sense confidence, of place and purpose.
For the past 20 years, mass immigration displaced Blacks from taxi cab jobs, janitorial services, delivery, fast food, construction, landscaping, moving jobs and more. Pelosi, Reid, and now Obama, augment 138,000 legal immigrants into America every 30 days""without societal responsibility. Combined with another 100,000 unlawful immigrant workers added monthly, American Blacks take a backseat in the economic, housing, educational and opportunity bus.
We need another Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks in 2009. It's evident, by their actions, that Obama, Reid, Pelosi and the esteemed members of Congress will not stand for American Blacks. Actions DO speak louder than words! How about "Change" that benefits American Blacks!
With the loss of auto manufacturing, that situation, again, facilitated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid in our Congress, it assured guillotine finality for Black American workers.
Remember, it's not just Black America! A whopping 32.2 million Americans subsist on food stamps. A total of 15 million Americans cannot find jobs.
Their social status, dictated by their personal finances, remains grim. With it, a sense of despair grows. Inner-city education and housing continue to deteriorate. Medical care cannot be gained beyond Medicaid.
Education anchors the foundation of this republic. Without it, this nation cannot long maintain itself with a poorly educated citizenry. As I said earlier, Detroit, MI, 67 percent African-American population, suffered a 76 percent dropout rate last June according to NBC's Brian Williams. That figure duplicates at 50 to 60 percent dropout rates in major cities across the USA. Williams stated that, "Around 1.2 million 18 year old youth hit the streets of America every June as dysfunctional illiterates."
We cannot remain a first world nation if we fail to change those percentages toward success. In the final parts of this series, we will discuss more Black challenges.
Part 3: Drugs, pregnancies, crime, prison
Part 4: Negative mores, lifestyle choices
Part 5: Look forward, solutions
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