Arky51's Blog

When I was a kid of thirteen, I encountered a little girl in the Church parking lot telling N**** jokes. When she asked, “Why are N***** black?” I answered, “Because God made them that way.” I was incensed that we could sing, “Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight,” and still have such coming from the mouth of a ten-year-old! In my family, I was taught that the difference meant we should not intermarry, because that would be an unequal yoke. But there should never be any hostility or hatred because they were our fellow human beings. Our NEIGHBORS, if you please.

Not many years later, I became an admirer of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. I knew in my heart that he was right. I was named “Blue-eyed Soul” by my black friends in Vietnam, that title personally awarded by a Chicago Black known as Sugar Bear (the motor pool dispatcher in Long Binh). And to this day, I say boldly to white folks that he was right. To black folks I have said, “SOMEONE NEEDS TO TELL JESSE AND AL THAT MARTIN WAS RIGHT.”

Since Dr. King was MURDERED, I have been saddened to see his Legacy dishonored by people who saw only the color of the murderer's skin, rather than his motives (the content of his character).

Pastor Louis M. Murphy asserts that, due to the way “The System” works, black kids are left to the wolves. He partially redeems himself by his admission that his institution is not as active a part as it should be in the lives of their families.

James Evans asserts “The System has failed, . . . and the family cannot be blamed.” Blame shifting never has and never will produce any meaningful answers. It has long been known; if there is something wrong with any system, the change cannot be made with any efficacy from without. It must be accomplished from within.

Joe Robinson, though a little shy of really standing out in contradiction of his colleagues, was more on point and correct in backing Bill Cosby's unpopular statements (James Ragland was among a number of respected black columnists who heavily praised Cosby's comments, remarking that “maybe more of us [African-Americans] should be eating whatever Mr. Cosby is putting in his Jell-O.”) that the black community should take much more responsibility for the condition of the black community and it's children.

Before Dr. King was murdered, blacks had a SUBCULTURE in America which cannot be condemned because it was reflective of the ROOTS of the black people. After Dr. King was murdered, that subculture was transformed into a COUNTERCULTURE by people whose desire was to profit from Dr. King's assassination. Who can know that they were not somehow complicit in the conspiracy?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. openly acknowledged that the progress he had made, in large part, was due to the fact that honest and good-hearted Christian white folks had gotten onto his band wagon. People who, in the tradition of William Wilberforce, equated the rabid results of segregationist policies to “man's inhumanity to man.” So . . . how often do you hear that acknowledged by the black leadership of today?

Rather, you hear rhetoric which promotes the strategy that ALL white folks today ought to feel shame for what the forefathers of SOME white folks two hundred years ago did to the forefathers of many black folks (and certainly not all, since there were considerable numbers of free blacks in America).

I would suggest that the “wolves” that Pastor Murphy refers to are the Gangster Rapping, Drug Dealing Pimp-types, with gold ropes and other bling all over them, which assert in their communities that the law of the jungle is better than an education and honest employment. That, and the fact that the good men of the black community have been marginalized, not by white society, but by the matriarchs who have spawned the pimps. It will ALWAYS be TRUE, the best parent is BOTH parents.

To quote Cosby, “It is not all right for your 15-year-old daughter to have a child,” he told 2,400 fans in a high school in Milwaukee. He lambasted young men in Baltimore for knocking up “five, six girls.” He tongue-lashed single mothers in Atlanta for having sex within their children's hearing “and then four days later, you bring another man into the house.” “The audience gasped,” reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

And again, “They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. ... Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. ... You can't be a doctor with that kind of BLEEP coming out of your mouth!”

Sorry if I've offended, but that is the way I see it, and I wish my black Brothers and Sisters all of God's Blessings. If you truly care about Him and His Ways, you know there is but ONE RACE on the face of this Earth – the HUMAN RACE. And, it is the Devil who divides us! In America, especially, our fates are without doubt inexorably intertwined.