The Black Bored Jungle
If you are as old as I am, you probably remember the old B&W movie Blackboard Jungle—a movie that focused on juvenile delinquency in an urban environment. I don't see that term "juvenile delinquency" used much any more; is it not politically correct? Or doesn't mainstream society care any more? Is it really easier to let juvenile delinquency metastasize into major felony, and then treat the surviving juvenile as an adult, and then promote the miscreants into a penal system that is running out of room, a penal system that has become a felony "graduate school?" We can see what happens next.
On November 22, former congressman Allen West said that black leaders will remain quiet on 'knockout game' assaults because they don't help their 'race profiting' bottom line.
We are seeing an obvious attempt to deny the problem by some media and some politicians. I think that the liberal's are trying to hide from their failure, a failure of their social agenda, a failure that has left a segment of our population without hope of ever realizing the "American dream."
Who wouldn't become bored when they are caged and fed by godless socialism—kept isolated from a loving God at a stage in their life that has more questions than answers. Teenagers, left with no one to help them through that "nothing to do" stage of life, they are instead shoved into a welfare state with nothing to do. Doomed to a life of boredom—a life where anger and hostility abound.
We cannot successfully deal with "juvenile" problems without dealing with "adult" problems also. And it does no good to deal with these two problem's one at a time; they must be dealt with together. The word "together" is important!
In my opinion, we might successfully work our way through the Black Bored Jungle if people start paying more attention to the works of Booker T. Washington—and reject the works of W.E. B. Du Bois.
Socialism is a dead end street for everybody.
-fl