Recently U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and a crew of President Obama’s other higher-ups arrived into Chicago to calm tensions and nerves in the wake of the death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert on Sept. 24 at the hands of those with sticks, fists and feet.
From what I can muster, Holder, Duncan and Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley gave the regular stump speech Wednesday, Oct. 7 on how parents must do this and that, and how our youth must desist from bad behaviors.
I have heard these rants before. Standing in as solutions, these rants are nothing more than a refusal to honestly and finally isolate and deal with the root causes that inspire many black male youngsters to act out violently and ruthlessly — the lack of true identity, history, culture, language and a specific land that they can point to as the home of their origins.
Of course, and probably, most of these troubled young souls do not consciously think about their African and Kemet ancestors or why as a young black person they are not associated or encouraged to identify with at least one or more of the numerous cultures, languages and nations of the greatest continent on the planet: Africa.
Granted, many black people’s origins may be found anywhere in the world. But wherever their origins, it must become a part of them.
In comparison, Arabs, Latinos and Asians in this country fare better because they can attach to their ethnicity and original language, a culture that is unique to them and a nationality that celebrates and chronicles their beginnings. Most black people cannot do this, because their past has been cut-off as a result of the African Holocaust.
Like their parents, grandparents, great grandparents, et cetera, they have no history. And while the innovative contributions to the America society by black Americans are plentiful, the connection to a base source makes these achievements empty in comparison.
I maintain that this is the root cause of the social and psychological unrest that goes untreated in our young black males. You add a dose of white supremacy that brutalizes young black men in almost every stratum of their existence, and you have an internal war that will destroy almost anything or anybody before it — especially those communities and people, due to the self-hate that oppression breeds, who share the same ethnicity. It is a classic case of enslavement because as a result of those young black males who act out, as the out-of-the-loop Chicago Mayor Daley says, “in a anti-social way,” their next assignment is to serve numerous years in prison, leaving behind any chance of true rehabilitation.
Sadly and in an almost bittersweet way, many young black males do indeed find their true identity, but they do so behind heavily guarded and armed prison walls where many a generation of black men have lived and have had time to read the truth of their existence and to discover their origins.
Currently, so-called education gurus like Duncan have come up with what they claim is a solution to better educating our youth by forcing them to attend schools outside of their immediate neighborhoods. This has resulted in clashes, assaults and homicides due to neighborhood gang rivalries.
Mind you, now it would be quite a different outcome if our black youth, and adults, were given an academic curriculum that focused in on their originality versus one that works to assimilate them into a false belonging. Even the Detroit Public Schools czar, Robert Bobb, has missed the importance of black students connecting to their base. Bobb and others in Detroit instead put all of their energies in back-in strategies, while the core causes of black student underachievement goes unrecognized.
Black youth remain ignorant of their self identity because based on empirical evidence very few, if any, school districts attempt to recognize the unique position black students are in. These school districts do not discuss and try to remedy the fact that black students do not have a homeland, exist without the benefit of ancestry and without nationality.
Consequently, the mis-education systems in America destroy and mislead black youth away from a place of true substance and recognition of self to a zone of disarray, mayhem and total destruction.
Add the myth of religion to the mix, and you will find out that youngsters like Albert were supposed to die. Because there is no way that such a negative, backwards, dysfunctional, racist and mythically religious environment could ever nurture a society of healthy people.
Until the administrators and leaders of our education systems, including those at Wayne State University, put aside their programmed ideologies that have effectively harmed black students and provide lesson plans that connect black youngsters to their roots, and until the system of white supremacy is destroyed, more of our youngsters will find homicide as their way out versus living a long and fulfilling life that embraces a good death.
In conclusion, my congratulations are extended to Obama for receiving the Noble Peace Prize. The irony is that peace cannot be found in most black communities in America because peace cannot locate a home for them.
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