Yes, let’s fix this system that allowed this to happen! (The real problem in the Black community)

As you are probably well aware by now, the grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of Michael Brown. After all of the evidence was presented, a jury made up of citizens of mixed races did not find any cause to indict the officer despite massive pressure from the race baiters, mainstream media, Ferguson mob, countless social media experts, and many ill-intentioned politicians. Justice was served – pure, unbiased justice.

They saw everything that the public was not able to see, and they made the educated decision. That is what we want in America. We want a justice system that is unbiased. We don’t want a lynch mob deciding who is and isn’t guilty.

I am not going to get into the details because that is not what this is about. I am not willing to argue a point that is already settled.

Instead, I want to shed a little light on the statement made by Michael Brown’s family after the grand jury announced their decision. In their statement, it reads “We need to work together to fix the system that allowed this to happen.”

Well said Brown Family! I couldn’t agree more! I applaud you for standing up and being a leader in your community!

Oh, wait, they were talking about the system where despicable white “pigs” have an open season all year round to kill black teenagers in broad daylight with no consequences, weren’t they?

That’s unfortunate. I thought that someone was going to finally stand up and call for a reform of the real system at fault here. The system that starts at home. The system where children are raised to respect authority. The system where education is important. The system where hip-hop and gang culture isn’t celebrated. The system where there is a stable family structure.

What happened to that system? What happened to accountability? How is it that a kid can commit strong armed robbery, then attack a police officer, get shot, and end up a martyr? How does that happen? How does this type of person end up making national news as someone who starts this mythological revolution?

Why is it that we find ourselves in the middle of some criminal case each year that involves some kind of white on black crime? This year, it was Michael Brown. Last year, it was Trayvon Martin. Well, Trayvon was killed by a Hispanic man, but that doesn’t make for good news. The media and everyone else who thrives on racism had to make him a White-Hispanic, so they can force feed the American people their agenda once again.

Racism is alive and well in America, but it is not because your average ordinary person wants it to be. It is because there is too much money involved for people like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, and they have to throw out that race card anywhere they can.

I mean anywhere. A man dies from Ebola, and Jessie Jackson screams racism! Because only in America, you don’t die from Ebola. You die from racism. But I digress…

When are we going to stop looking at the color of a man and start looking at his actions? Why can’t we look at Michael Brown through the lens of his actions? He was a kid who just violently robbed a convenient store then got into an altercation where he rushed a cop. I mean I don’t know how else this story is supposed to end. The thing is that no matter what race Michael Brown was, the story ends the same.

That is the problem though. Instead of looking at what actually happened, people just look at the race of the two in the incident. White on White – fine. Black on Black – fine. Black on White – fine. White on Black – RACISM!

It doesn’t matter what actually happened. It doesn’t matter who is truly at fault. Nothing matters to the race baiters and the sensationalist media other than race and opportunity. So this is where we find ourselves. At the center of yet again another controversy that was handpicked by the scum who are stoking the fire of racism in our country. The fire that wants to die so bad that we can’t even stand it, but the same fire that is being kept alive by those who live to exploit it.

So Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, MSNBC, CNN, the Huffington Post, and countless others preach from their platforms and chant that things have to change. They say that the system is broken while they exploit the families for all they are worth to get their spot in the lime light. They stoke the fire and create hate and resentment all across the nation that shouldn’t even be there in the first place. They blame the government. They blame the cops. They blame the judicial system. The blame everyone and everything they can point at, but they never point at what the real problem is.

They never point to the parents. They never point to the culture in which they grow up.

Turn on the news, and you can get a little glimpse of the culture Michael was surrounded by based on the rioting, looting, arson, and crime being committed in Ferguson right now. I can promise you that this reaction doesn’t happen in most cities when people aren’t happy.

That is the system that is broken. That is the system that needs to be fixed. You want things to change? Start looking at what is influencing these kids. Start looking at who their role models are. Start looking at the lyrics that are being fed to them through their headphones every day.

Let’s look at Ice-T’s song “Cop Killer”:

Die, die, die pig, die!
F*** the police! . . .
F*** the police yeah!

Just a leader in the Hip-Hop community teaching his listeners how to respect authority.

What about Jay-Z’s song “Is That Yo B****?”

I don’t love ’em, I f*** ’em.
I don’t chase ’em, I duck ’em.
I replace ’em with another one. . . .
She be all on my d***

Here is another example of a Hip-Hop icon teaching his listeners how to respect women.

Then there is this freestyle:

My favorite part of killing people is when they hit the ground. …

I roll fat blunts they look just like my thumb.

This one really teaches listeners how to respect human life and how bad drugs are for you.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you who wrote that song. That was composed by your gentle giant, Michael Brown.

This Hip-Hop culture knows no race either. Eminem is a famous white rapper. Let’s see what he has to say about being a good and moral person.

In his song “Still Don’t Give a F***”, you will hear:

I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you…

I wanna crush your skull til your brains leak out of your veins.

Sounds healthy, right? Sounds like something a young, impressionable kid should be listening to, right?

Why isn’t Al Sharpton or President Obama calling out Jay-Z or Eminem though? Why aren’t any leaders in the black community calling for this vile and derogatory music to stop? Why aren’t any leaders teaching kids that the hip-hop scene does not lead to a prosperous life in almost every case?

Instead, they blame America for being racist. They blame the cops for being racist. They blame the employers for being racist.

The blame game is so easy because it doesn’t make anyone take responsibility for their actions. It doesn’t hold anyone accountable for what is really going on.

Maybe they should be preaching a better message. Maybe they shouldn’t play the victim. Maybe they should be trying to fix the system that leads to a ridiculously high incarceration rate among black men. Maybe they should be preaching the importance of education. Instead, they preach a racism and nothing but.

They don’t ever point to a successful African American man who has excelled in his career, and say “Do what he has done. Follow his lead. Stop looking up to the gang members and the rappers, and look up to him!” When you do hear that message from someone like Stephen A. Smith or a Ben Carson, they are called an Uncle Tom.

This whole culture is devoid of leadership, and the people who have a platform and a voice only exasperate the issue like Jackson and Sharpton have done their whole life.

These kids need to be taught the importance of having both a mom and a dad. They need to be taught how important an education is. They need to be taught how to respect women. They need to be taught how to dress appropriately to command respect. They need to be taught that the hip-hop life leads straight to the penitentiary. They need to be taught how to respect authority. This doesn’t change regardless of your color. The same rules apply to us all.

Where is this message?

Shame on the Jessie Jackson’s and Al Sharpton’s of the world! What have you done for anyone in the black community? What have you done for the black families other than use their children’s death for your own personal gain? There are still black on black deaths happening everyday in Chicago, but I guess you don’t see the opportunity in that. But when you do see opportunity, you swoop in to milk the tragedy for all it is worth, and then you go back to your mansion while the streets of Ferguson are burned down. You don’t have their interest in mind. If you did, you would be teaching them how to work their way out of poverty or how to stay out of jail.

There is a system that is failing America right now, and I can promise you that it is not the judicial system. The system that is failing right now is the one that produces criminals and glorifies hip-hop and gang culture.

So I agree with you. We need to work together to fix the system that allowed this to happen. We just need to be real with ourselves about what is truly causing this to happen first.

***Inspired by my brother, Tanor. Tanor talks a lot too. He just doesn’t have a blog.***