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With the recent deaths and woundings of police officers in Dallas, Texas still fresh in the minds of many, one of the talking heads on the video tube brought up a reference to the sixties. Of course, in the midst of any tragedy, columnists and commentators spout a host of words without reflecting upon history.
Face it folks; we ARE literally ‘Back in the sixties’.
Oh, I know that it is ‘physically’ different today than it was some fifty years ago. However, there are a lot of things that have been sliding back in that direction for a number of decades…to bring us back to where many of today’s Black youth--and their parents--are blissfully ignorant of some of the factors that led to many of the inner cities bursting into flames. Let me provide some of the factors I saw then--and see now:
*Fewer Black male/female police officers IN urban neighborhoods.
*Fewer Black male/female teachers in schools--including colleges.
*Black churches and pastors more interested in ‘the green’ than ‘the gospel’. Couple this with few ‘meaningful & biblical’ relationships with Caucasian churches.
*Fewer Black media outlets to tell our stories ‘beyond’ the bad news.
*Fewer Black reporter/anchors--male or female--on the local TV news sets of America. Couple this with fewer Black reporters/editors at the nations newspapers.
*Fewer Blacks in management levels of Tech companies, including a ‘Black out’ in the high tech plains of Silicon Valley. Little support of Black-owned companies.
*Fewer Black community leaders of any substance--including Black political leaders. Fewer services to Black neighborhoods (including small businesses).
*Lastly, mistreatment of the Black community by law enforcement through a variety of covert (COINTELPRO) and overt (police action shootings) means.
Without Jesus Christ in the mix, and an ability to get ourselves together as a country, Dallas may only be the beginning of a tragic soap opera we’ve all seen before.
Ramey, a syndicated columnist and book reviewer lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. To correspond, drop him an email at [email protected]. © 2016 Barnstorm Communications.
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