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CONNECTING THE DOTS
Frosty Wooldridge
More About: Politics: General ActivismWe killed him for “the fun of it”
This past Tuesday night, I sat in my chair watching NBC’s
Lester Holt report on two black kids, 15 and 16, along with a bi-racial kid
shoot and kill a 22 year old Australian college kid on a training run past
their house in Duncan, Oklahoma.
When asked why they did it.
They responded, “For the fun of it.”
The news
reported, “Twenty-two-year-old Chris Lane of Melbourne, Australia, was killed
for no reason while out running in the town of Duncan, Oklahoma. Police arrested Chancey Luna, 16, James Edwards, 15 and Michael Jones,
17, on first degree murder charges.”
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Duncan Police Chief Dan Ford said the boys gave the simplest
of motives, “Overcoming a boring end to their summer vacation.”
The 16 year-old Luna said they were bored and killed Lane for
"the fun of it."
They
shot him in the back after he ran past their house. I sat in my chair dumb-struck at the utter
horror, stupidity and sickening savagery of the entire report. Lester Holt remained emotionless while
speaking his words to millions of Americans. It turned my guts. It made me sick to my stomach. The killing left a gaping “why” in my brain.
Will
millions of African-Americans protest in the streets because two black boys and
a bi-racial boy killed an Australian white kid running past their house “for
the fun of it”? Will they call for
justice like they did in the Trayvon Martin case? Will white Americans protest the killings by
taking to the streets and demanding justice?
Sadly,
blacks and whites won’t even whimper a sound at the killing of the white
Australian college man named Chris Lane.
But I want to delve into this type of insanity a little deeper.
I
think our society suffers from a deep down sickness for too many of its
citizens. Every 15 seconds, some
American man, whether husband or father, beats the hell out of a woman.
"Violence
against women is pervasive throughout the United States. One in four women will
experience domestic violence at some point in their lives. On average, three
women are killed every day at the hands of a current or former intimate
partner."~ National Network to End Domestic Violence.
Estimates
range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse or
girlfriend to three million women who are physically abused by their husband or
boyfriend annually.
Those
factoids sicken me. What causes such
incredible violence to the weaker sex?
Why don’t we address it? The
causes? The solutions?
Surely
we could encourage community, jobs, education and fellowship to vanquish such
violence within our country. Instead, we
fund 10 year wars that kill even more people by guns, bombs and poisons.
Black on Black killings in America: 7,000
murders annually
According to a study
conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011 there were
279,384 black murder victims, which means that 262,621 were murdered by other
blacks, resulting in the 94 percent figure.
While blacks make-up only 13 percent of the nation’s population, they
account for more than 50 percent of homicide victims.
So what’s the source of the problem? As Publius notes, “The problem is not among the black population
as a whole; rather, it is due to a “small sub-culture that glorifies violence
and lives and dies by the gun.” It is the gang culture, characterized by
widespread criminality, tribalistic warfare, through-the-roof unemployment,
extremely high rates of out-of-wedlock births (72.1
percent among blacks in 2010), widespread welfare dependency, and nihilistic
art typified by “gangster rap.”
Black on White killings in America
· In 2011, of the 12,664 murder victims in America, 50% were Black
and 46% were white.
· In 2011, 52% of the offenders in these murders were Black and 45%
were white.
· One other stat: 90% of perpetrators were men.
White on Black killings in America
Intra-racial
violence holds for whites. Eight-three
percent of white murders in 2011 were within-race killings. This data tells us that murder, for the most
part, in America does not come from racial hatred. Most killers kill within their race.
Suicide
Among the Young in America
· Among
persons aged 15 to 24, suicide ranks as the third leading cause of death in
America. About 18 teens kill themselves
daily or one Columbine High School rampage 24/7.
· In
2000, over three million youth seriously considered suicide in the USA and over
one million attempted suicides. That
equates to over 2,700 attempts daily or two attempts every 60 seconds.
As a nation, as
a civilization, as a culture and as a multicultural society—we desperately need
leadership that focuses on funding for thorough and successful education for
whites, blacks, browns and all other children.
We need to create jobs for our teens to give them worth, financial
energy and moral direction. We need to
stop the 71 percent of out-of-wedlock birth rates for African-Americans and
white Americans if we hope to bring any kind of reasonable male-female balance
to the rearing of our children.
As it stands,
those children face being brought up as savages rather than human beings. Right now, two black kids and a bi-racial kid
face the rest of their lives behind bars.
Right now, an entire community in Australia faces life without their
outstanding son who trusted America enough to come and play baseball.
As a culture,
and a country, America needs to stop wasting money, military and brute power in
hundreds of countries around the world.
We need to elect representatives who focus on making our country a place
where teens grow up with ethics, morals, direction, homes, jobs and purpose—to
live a fruitful and positive life. As it
stands today with those three kids and hundreds of thousands like them, the
violence toward women, the suicides and the crime rates—we fail miserably.
I think I am
going to have a sickening gut ache for a very long time.
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