This is Blog post number twenty-three, and it is entitled C'MON MAN!
"For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work" (James 3:16 KJV).

Obama embraces a lifelong cause: Helping minority boys succeed

news.yahoo.com

In the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, the president asked his team to help give the nation’s young black men a better shot.

After I read this story on YAHOO.com about the President yesterday I decided to read some of the comments. I also read some of the comments on Huffington Post. As I recall there were over 11,000 comments on one of the sites; l don't remember which site. In total, I read about fifty of the comments. Not even one of them was complimentary! No not One! We all should know and the comments that I read confirmed it: If President Obama had done this in his first term of office he would not have had a second term.

Considering what young Black and Brown men are going through in America is this not what every President should be doing? I am persuaded that there is likely no bigger problem to fix! I so admired what President Bush did and tried to do in Africa. As great as our missionary efforts are around the world why is it such a bad idea to fix what we must fix in America? Why can we not do what we know we must? Is it a good idea to continue to have a Black Man Pipeline to Prison in America? Every parent or grandparent of a Black boy who loves them worries over them. We should not have to and that we must is a national sin and a damn disgrace! Now I accept that young White men are going through a rough patch. They are not in a Pipeline to Prison, like young Black boys are, if they can stay alive long enough to get to prison!

"Communicated everyday to young Black men in America, is this message, you must manage to: 1) stay alive, 2) not get locked up in jail or in a federal prison, unlike so many of your brethren, 3) make a living without an available job, 4) get a good base education in a school system that does not offer one near you, 5) get a loan and start a business with bad credit, 6) develop good credit with no job, 7) stay well with no healthcare, 8) never have sexual intercourse, 9) provide for the child that comes if and when you do have sexual intercourse, and 10) even if an underground job is the only job available to take care of the child, do not work in the underground economy to do so. That's right even though that is the only economy where you live don't work in it."

The many comments that I read yesterday prompted me to write one of my own in reply to a most hateful comment toward the President and this is what I wrote:

HUFFINGTON POST COMMENT
"http://brother-jeff.blogspot.com/ Just happened to read some of the comments from the article about President Obama finally wanting to do something about the plight of young Black men. The level of hatred that White Folk have for Black Folk is sometimes beyond any comprehension. One would think that the roles were reversed and White Folk had once been the Slaves in America. Really what have Black Folk done to White Folk to cause such hatred?

Or is it a self-hatred that is being expressed because of an awesome reality of guilt shame and resentment of: historical facts and forefather conduct; that is hidden deep within the collective White subconscious? Is it hatred or just fear? Whatever it is it is not good for either race of people. We need to reconcile with one another so the power of God's love can truly flourish in the land! We need an end to hate movement in America! My goodness. C'MON MAN! Things just ain't that bad...."