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"Why I Am Not Marching in the Street"
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I find it comical that we say that the prison system has failed on rehabilitation. Why? Simple.."You can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink." Some people, no matter what you do, will never change. It is not in them to do so. There are many people out there with criminal personalities and have no inclination of changing. The fact that drugs and sexual abuse take place in prison should be a clue that these people have no intention of changing and not even being confined changes their attitude. Now, I do wish that we had more reliable security to protect and prevent the sale of drugs within that system, but the criminals out smart the guards 20 to 1.
Now, I don't think that people of color have any right to scream brutality even more than the hispanic or the white. No matter what one's color is, if he did the crime then he does the time. We make too many excuses for people of ethnic backgrounds. Poverty does not make a criminal either. My poor old mother lost her husband. She had one child on the way and no support. They lived in the Country and she worked in the fields, housekeeping to support her children. They had no welfare, no food stamps, but she held on and raised her children on good moral principles. They had no rebocks, they were lucky to even get a pair of shoes. The children grew up went to work early in the mill, then on to Bell Bomber in WWII. She married later in life to my father and so, please don't give me the poverty excuse. It is the character of the individual and their willingness to be the best they can be under the circumstances in which they were born.
So, all this marching in the streets, etc, just is an excuse to give credence where not is due.
Well written.. I’m a non-black… and you know what… I wouldn’t march in the streets for the 30% of the criminals that aren’t black either. Richard Prior summed it up quite well when he said… . “I just got back from visiting with the brothers in Soledad prison. I’m going to tell you folks something…Thank God for prisons!. You wouldn’t want to come home one day find one these guys sitting in your living room. Take my word for it.!”
Well written and thought provoking. But WHY exactly are many citizens becoming criminals? What is it in our cultural environment that triggers this? For sure, you are correct when you identify the lack of personal responsibility as the root cause of many ills, but from whence does it arise?
I suspect that society is simply too regulated and that the lack of new frontiers confines us like microbes in a petri dish - and we just can't cope.
Possibly there used to be a big gray area between respectable citizen and criminal - occupied by illicit brewers and other acceptable unsavory types. Possibly the increased need for education to acquire a reasonable job is driving many to crime - after all, it's only a few decades ago that a laborer could make really good money and support a family. That same laborer is now earning peanuts flipping burgers or not working at all.
The capacity for criminality exists in all of us - and a good thing too as it's generally the traits of dissidence that yield the creativity that moves the world forward.
Anyway, that's my quick reaction. As you see, you provoked my thoughts!
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