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Black youth in America are being troubled by the mixed messages from authority(parents, teachers, religion) and society(media, peers and neighborhood). On the one hand, youth are being asked to conform to rules and the pathway to success...but once they mesh with their peers or around schoolmates, the saga of vice commences. They are exposed to the easier path through intolerance, explicit s*x, and entertainment. Parent control is waning each year the child grows and behavioral disorder too often raises to the level where the police must be called in to account. Brawls, shootings, mass rapes and murder now plague Americas cities as the black youth become more and more out of control. There is a solution....There is an answer...But, parents are so busy trying to make ends meet, many time they have not the time to address the problem. Black Youth are getting bored with the options handed down to them. They see their life in the ghetto not changing no matter how many positive strides Black people as a whole are making. It seems so much easier to impregnate a young girl, market drugs and gang bang then follow a course of discipline involving read, writing and doing the right thing. The setting up of a new nation in Africa presents a new set of options for Black youth in America. In this case their efforts will result in a positive differance that they can realize, feel and taste. Being involved in new factories, new roads, new highways, new colleges, new transit systems....on top of a new environment with exotic animals, beautiful horticulture and exquisite gems will have a way of absorbing most if not all the energy of the youth and convert it to positive energy of reconstruction. They would be directly involved in the development of their homeland....In short, establishing a new nation in Africa will be just what the doctor ordered for todays failing youth.
Posted By: jamal Abraham
Tuesday, March 9th 2010 at 5:04PM
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[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.
Wednesday, March 10th 2010 at 10:03AM
Jen Fad
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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.
Wednesday, March 10th 2010 at 11:20AM
jamal Abraham
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[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.
Thursday, March 11th 2010 at 10:10AM
Jen Fad
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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!!!
Thursday, March 11th 2010 at 10:12AM
Jen Fad
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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.
Thursday, March 11th 2010 at 10:20AM
Steve Williams
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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.
Thursday, March 11th 2010 at 10:25AM
Steve Williams
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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.
Thursday, March 11th 2010 at 5:38PM
Siebra Muhammad
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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.
Sunday, March 14th 2010 at 11:18AM
jamal Abraham
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