Sharing The Blame, Offering A Promise

  • Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Sharing the blame and offering a promise lets most of us off the hook but gives all pause to think about what is written here today.   Ferguson, Selma, Oakland, Los Angeles and so many other cities that have been affected by riot. Not by white people but by black. Why, everyone should be asking?

Let's talk about why but in order to do that we must go back 150 years or so to what was then slavery. I won't go into the horrific toll that practice took on the idea of family within the black community such as it was and instead start there and suggest that maybe a little has changed since then, but the attitudes of both political parties has not changed, not a bit.  The Republican Party's position is to blame and the Democratic Party's position is to "take care" and what we have is a replication of what was and the what was and is slavery, a modern version. The Democratic do-good, feed, clothe and house large numbers of inner city blacks. The other group wants to isolate them; provide poor educational experiences and foster a sense of helplessness that has continued since the days of plantations, slavery and the worst treatment of human beings short of mass murder. 

What can be done is pretty drastic but let's talk about it. The educational system in this community, in any community of size, is central to the community needs. Providing an adequate educational experience that exceeds the present would go a long way to begin to undo the unforgivable abuse of a group of people that deserve better.  Let every child, every parent, aunt, uncle, all now participate in a community of caring that says and does what is not being done, and that is educate the community.  

Schools are central and are open in the evenings. Schools are central and have outreach programs that extend into the homes, changing what is dependence to independence. Children, everyone of them, is treated as a unique individual with skills and deficits known to the professionals meeting those unique needs. No longer will schools serve only oatmeal curriculum but a rich multi modality array that includes art, drama, music, science, reading, math and a richness of opportunity that captures all in its grip.  

The school's fail to meet the needs of an awful percent of children and not just Chattanooga but every city, town and etc. in the U.S.  Failure to achieve is the responsibility of the schools. No body else can do it. 

Robert Brooks

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