Black American Youth: OUT OF CONTROL: Parents running out of HOPE

[Black youth need a reward system that is real, tangible and most of all stimulating to the them.]

Brother Jamal I think your point is really good, but I was looking for you to say that our youth need their fathers to be actively participating in their lives. I blame the fatherless homes for the major problems with youths. I hope your Nation Building Project has a blurb in it to address this issue that is so out of control in the Black community.

Sis. Jen....Fathers have a critical role to play in the stability and adherence to the "right thing" in the home. The problem is that white civilization in America knows that. Stability in the black home would mean a even playing field that black youth and white youth would have to play on. That would ruin the ideology that white kids are superior to black kids. Joblessless and employment transfers move fathers out of the home. Crime moves fathers out of the home. Then the Black man's lack of control of his temper moves fathers out of the home. Fathers that present a chaotic family life, yelling at the mother or abusing the mother does more harm then good for the children. In short, American civilization is against a happy congenial home life for the black family. Black Americans have to work twice as hard and make critical sacrafices for the home structure to work with white civilization orchestraing to the contrary.

White civilization preferes to force the black man out of the house. Then he (the white man) can take over caring for the Black women and children. Whites would prefer the role of taking good care of their families and taking rotten control of the the dysfunctional black family. A solution is a community approach to raising the black family meaning strong black male role model should step in to help with mentoring roles of black youth in the neighborhoods or community. Even though, they are not part of the immediate family, these black male role models would be part of the extended family which could help keep black youth on the right track.

Growing up, parents in our neighborhood took an interest in us. They would call home and tell my parents of issues of concern. The neighborhood was interested in all of the children of the area and did not hesitate to step to make correction.

[IN fact, I have seen single black women coddle the boys, spoiling them rotten to the extent that by the time they are young men, they're no good.]

This isn't just a problem in Black homes, but most women do this unless there is a father who really jumps in there to insist that the kids be taught how to be a man. I was begiinning to fall into this trap, but I realized that this wasn't the way to go.

I hope despite the challenges that men face, your Nation Building Project will emphasize the need to press onward and upward in math, science, and the other subjects that would allow success for the youth to be tangible.

to become tangible is what I meant to say... my computer at home is having problems and I'm on this SLOW computer at the library. UGGH!!!

We have a tendency to focus on the big picture. When we are trying to solve a big problem, it helps to break the big problem into a set of smaller problems, more easily solved.

I had a discussion during my recent interview, that involved remedial work, the role of parents, how much responsibility is on the teachers, etc. I stated that the only thing I would have 100% control over is my classroom. Whatever the family situation, whatever the lack of funding, whatever prior failures put students into remedial work, I have 100% control of the results in the little sphere of life that will be my class.

People want a panacea, like Obama's 4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund. There is no panacea, only each individual doing what they can to address the problems under their control. The results are cumulative.

And Sister Jen, I am happy to hear your son enjoys school. Someone is doing something right, and I am sure he will grow to be a man you can be proud of.

There is not enough programs set up for the Black males focused towards job training or going to college to get more educated or anything that involves keeping our youth on the straight and narrow.

I worked in the New Orleans Public School system since 2002, and nearly 85% of our Black males drop out of school every year. Most of them don't know anything other than getting high, sleeping around with a lot of women, robbing, stealing and killing. In fact their behavior is so savage that it scares the daylights out of the very people who birthed and raised them.

There is not enough outreach programs for the black American youths in the street. This is because ignorance and greed has taken over this country. And this is where I fault folks like Rev. Fred Price and Bishop T.D. Jakes. You see folks like them on TV looking clean and sharp with the money they get from their congregation.

There is not enough ministers/preachers giving back to the community and working to bring about a change in the black youth's current condition.They bloodsuck the community but they are not IN the community trying to reform our black American youth.

At times the problems eminating from the black youth appears overwhelming going from "who cares" to "let them sink". One thing foresure, the solution to help our black youth will not come by accident. Concerted effort at various level must be implemented to maka a positive differance. It is in that vain that only with a nation controlled and run by Black Americans can the type of effort from the government, family and community be in harmony to correct.