Reader response: Compassion for Life
Committee member Doc Scott would like to share these thoughts:
How can you say you love god and have no compassion for life. Ron Littlepage says it’s the best in his article on April 18, 2006, Times Union;
It's a reputation that's not going unnoticed.
A recent Associated Press news story said Jacksonville "has been Florida's murder capital 12 of the past 17 years and has a higher murder rate than such former crime capitals as New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Atlanta."
"Its rate of 9.4 murders per 100,000 residents in 2004," the AP said, "places in the top 10 among U.S. cities with a population of 500,000 or larger, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics."
Some are claiming this year's high murder rate is an aberration. I don't think so.
Where is the outcry from the ministers?
Where is the outcry from our elected officials?
Where is the outcry from the city's business leaders?
Where is the outcry from the community as a whole?
There is something terribly wrong.
Let me tell you what wrong from the frontline. Its simple math something you learn on the 8 grade level in school “causes and effect”. A combination of elements coming together to produce a negative result = crime. These elements consist of four points that must be address today before we can decrease violence citywide.
Discrimination
1. Taxation
2. Government
3. Employment
True African American Leadership
1. Family
2. Community
3. Politic – City and State
Education
1. True African American History
2. 6th grade on the elementary level
3. Revamp the School Board into a School System with the FCCJ and UNF President on the Executive Committee with veto power.
4. Eliminates the magnet program – all school should be a C grade or better.
Community
1. A call for double times no bond for murder, robbery with a gun and assault with a deadly weapon.
2. A call for economic justice in the lower income area of Jacksonville.
3. A call for education equality for all citizens.
4. A call for substance abuse and mental health treatment facilities.
5. A call for jobs and housing for ex-offender.
6. Donation to all community based support groups for dropouts and ex-offenders with proven success.
7. Parental support groups for married couples and singles.
Crime is a Jacksonville problem not just a black problem. If the Jacksonville community feels that this is a black problem. Then the first thing we need to address is racism in Jacksonville. I say racism is part of it but only represent a third of the problem. The problem is not education, jobs, housing or poverty all are negative effects of a bigger problem for blacks. As a messenger who is black on the frontline in the black community. I understand the real reason why the murder rate is so high. There is no true black leadership in the community. The black boule’s ministers self centered mentality motivated by sex, power and money is the real crime in the black community. The black church is and will always be the rock of direction for blacks in a foreign country call America. Also, another element that contributes to the black high crime rate is a class division among blacks. The number one element that has the biggest impact on the crime rate in the black community is; the war between mature male and female relationship within the black family. Too many mature blacks are consumer with a self preservation and materialistic possession than building a strong family together. To many divorce parent has a love-hate relationship with their ex-spouse causing a negative effect on the child or children in the home. Crime, poverty, a lack of a quality education for lower income earner, better jobs and housing is the negative effect of a high divorce rate among blacks. Until the divorce rate decrease among blacks family to less than 50 percent; the crime rate will continue to increase in the black community. United proactive black leadership from the spiritual, business, educational and political level can help restore the black family stability within 5 years.
Crime is still a Jacksonville problem because we all are citizens regardless of race.
Stanley Scott
doc3507@msn.com
How can you say you love god and have no compassion for life. Ron Littlepage says it’s the best in his article on April 18, 2006, Times Union;
It's a reputation that's not going unnoticed.
A recent Associated Press news story said Jacksonville "has been Florida's murder capital 12 of the past 17 years and has a higher murder rate than such former crime capitals as New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Atlanta."
"Its rate of 9.4 murders per 100,000 residents in 2004," the AP said, "places in the top 10 among U.S. cities with a population of 500,000 or larger, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics."
Some are claiming this year's high murder rate is an aberration. I don't think so.
Where is the outcry from the ministers?
Where is the outcry from our elected officials?
Where is the outcry from the city's business leaders?
Where is the outcry from the community as a whole?
There is something terribly wrong.
Let me tell you what wrong from the frontline. Its simple math something you learn on the 8 grade level in school “causes and effect”. A combination of elements coming together to produce a negative result = crime. These elements consist of four points that must be address today before we can decrease violence citywide.
Discrimination
1. Taxation
2. Government
3. Employment
True African American Leadership
1. Family
2. Community
3. Politic – City and State
Education
1. True African American History
2. 6th grade on the elementary level
3. Revamp the School Board into a School System with the FCCJ and UNF President on the Executive Committee with veto power.
4. Eliminates the magnet program – all school should be a C grade or better.
Community
1. A call for double times no bond for murder, robbery with a gun and assault with a deadly weapon.
2. A call for economic justice in the lower income area of Jacksonville.
3. A call for education equality for all citizens.
4. A call for substance abuse and mental health treatment facilities.
5. A call for jobs and housing for ex-offender.
6. Donation to all community based support groups for dropouts and ex-offenders with proven success.
7. Parental support groups for married couples and singles.
Crime is a Jacksonville problem not just a black problem. If the Jacksonville community feels that this is a black problem. Then the first thing we need to address is racism in Jacksonville. I say racism is part of it but only represent a third of the problem. The problem is not education, jobs, housing or poverty all are negative effects of a bigger problem for blacks. As a messenger who is black on the frontline in the black community. I understand the real reason why the murder rate is so high. There is no true black leadership in the community. The black boule’s ministers self centered mentality motivated by sex, power and money is the real crime in the black community. The black church is and will always be the rock of direction for blacks in a foreign country call America. Also, another element that contributes to the black high crime rate is a class division among blacks. The number one element that has the biggest impact on the crime rate in the black community is; the war between mature male and female relationship within the black family. Too many mature blacks are consumer with a self preservation and materialistic possession than building a strong family together. To many divorce parent has a love-hate relationship with their ex-spouse causing a negative effect on the child or children in the home. Crime, poverty, a lack of a quality education for lower income earner, better jobs and housing is the negative effect of a high divorce rate among blacks. Until the divorce rate decrease among blacks family to less than 50 percent; the crime rate will continue to increase in the black community. United proactive black leadership from the spiritual, business, educational and political level can help restore the black family stability within 5 years.
Crime is still a Jacksonville problem because we all are citizens regardless of race.
Stanley Scott
doc3507@msn.com
posted by JCCI | 1:52 PM
1 Comments:
Mr Scott provides a wonderful perspective, but shouldn't the answers the community needs to reduce violence be narrow in focus to allow better implementation? There are many factors that influence violence, yes, but there a couple of factors that people can focus on that affect others, instead of just one. Another agenda should be related to Mr Scott's comments on "cause and effect." I think it would be beneficial for this study to give recommendations for city agencies to implement, which would accompany a preliminary breakdown of resources, previous work, and comments on each recommendation by each agency or personnel responsible. Reading post study comments in the newspaper informs people of "in the meantime," but actual comments and resources in the final study report would have a certain long term permenance at identifying the spheres of influence on reducing violence. It would also be interesting to have a wall or page of comments by those related to or affected by the victim's death. These tell tale signs would be a visible reminder and catalyst for community involvement. Documenting the past, present, and possible future of reducing violence are important at making what people say not become unspoken, rather excusable.
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