The Boy Scouts raised a record $110,000 at the Whitney M. Young dinner this year, which was over double what they had averaged. I thought they were dead, or dissolved?
Not really.
I mean with all the negatives about young males and young Black males in particular, where did these kids come from. These were mostly young Black males who must suffer a lot of heat from kids at school and in the community for doing the right thing, instead of hanging on the streets, selling drugs and dropping out of school.
Even though many Blacks, especially young Blacks, see Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts as squares maybe it’s time they wake up to the fact that these are our leaders of the future. Hopefully the Scouts will become even more active and assertive in getting more Black boys to join and become a part of something positive for a change. Something that will help them learn how to build their community instead of tearing it down.
Whereas the average in the past was $40,000 they almost tripled the amount. Kudos go out to the young men and the adults and businesses that worked with them and gave so much money for a worthy cause, but especially for setting such a high example to other young Black males.
Ferguson, Mo., has received a lot of publicity since the killing of Michael Brown, with the riots, the marches and all the other stuff. But one of the biggest things coming out of Ferguson just may happen within the next two weeks. There will be a general election and for the first time Blacks are running for key positions to acquire much of the power that they should have had before if they had come out to vote. They make up the majority of the city yet Whites filled practically every major office. If Blacks had stood up and simply voted the police force could have never gotten to the point that they were. They were making Jim Clark and Bull Conner look like Boy Scouts when it came to their handling of Blacks. And what’s so bad, with Blacks being in the majority in the city their tax dollars were paying these officers who were beating up on and abusing them. Hopefully the many other cities like Ferguson are looking and will take action before they end up the same way. Are we in 2015?
When I think of all the abuse, and deaths that occurred throughout this country for the right to vote and yet the majority of Blacks are not using it.
The controversy over body cameras is much ado about nothing. Body cameras are the thing of the future, so I say that the Republicans need to get over it. Now a more accurate method will be available to show if a police officer is right or wrong. If it’s illegal to take into a house, then take it off when going into a house. Don’t kill the entire law over a technicality, or simply disallow any evidence gathered from the use of the camera in the house. But I would say that the true value of the camera would be it simply telling what the officer and defendant were doing in living color. Everything I’ve read and observed say that the cities that have it, love it.
Wouldn’t it be something if the president of Israel were to lose the election after coming over here trying to show up President Obama?
And what about those 50 Congressmen who sent the letter to the leader of Iran, stating basically that the President of the United States didn’t have the right to negotiate a deal without them. Wow. I thought the people elected the President to lead the country? Maybe I’m wrong but I thought it was up to the President to negotiate a deal then bring it back for approval from the Congress. And what happened in the past was Congress would either agree or some changes would be made and everyone went about their business.
Now I agree that no President should be able to lead us into war without some kind of checks and balances. By the way, why didn’t the Republicans think of this when President George Bush took us blindly into the Iraq war that has led to all hell breaking loose in the Middle East?
Yes, if you look at it very closely you will find that Isis and all the other radicals were being held pretty much in check until we, the U. S. came in and killed the dictators. Then it became every man for himself because the people who replaced these dictators ended up being worse.
I find myself with mixed feeling on the Fraternity that was kicked off campus for reciting racist chants, songs, and sayings, whatever. I am a strong believer in a person’s right to express his views, even if I disagree with it, as long as he doesn’t put his hands on me.
I feel that if these young White males felt that way then they should have the right to express themselves. I would rather know what a person feels about me rather than them having to keep it quiet for fear of getting fired, or punished. Now I don’t feel they have the right to use that prejudice to block others but they should be able to express their feelings. Now they still have the same feelings, but know now not to express it publically.
Are we in the year 2015 or pre-1960s?
