It’s a very rare occasion, indeed, when one hears
from within the black community voices that possess the necessary courage to
speak out againt government dependency and how it is that that dependency has
come to so thoroughly decimate the black community. It’s one of those voices that belongs to the Rev. Cecil Blye, senior pastor at More Grace Ministries in Louisville, Ky. And it was at a press conference earlier this
week, the purpose of which was to announce a new initiative to help youth in
the nation’s troubled inner cities, that Rev. Blye said federal policies
designed to fight poverty in the black community have instead “destroyed” black
families.
“The paradigm of government as parent has destroyed
the black family and made black fatherhood irrelevant,” Blye said at the Stay
True to America’s National Destiny (STAND) event at the National Press Club in
Washington, D.C. And he then went on to
say, “Our welfare policies have incentivized co-habitation, single motherhood,
and unemployment.” Blye, who is also the
national vice president of STAND, said the destruction dates back to 1964 when
President Lyndon Johnson ushered in what he called the “War on Poverty”
designed to build a “Great Society.” But
one could very easily argue that destroying the black family is exactly what
LBJ hoped to accomplish.
Rev. Blye said, “Fifty years ago President Johnson
gave us the notion of the Great Society.”
He went on to say, “Fifty years later we see there can be no great
society without great morality.” He
added, “Fifty years later we see there can be no Great Society when government
involvement incentivizes family disintegration, making it more profitable to
cohabit than to be married.” Rev. Blye
said, “We see fifty years later that there can be no Great Society when
government involvement incentivizes joblessness making it impossible to make a
judgment to take a low-skilled job when you’re making more money on the
government dole.”
“We need to have an awakening,” Rev. Blye said. “We
need an awakening that saves our cities by strengthening our families and
incentivizing personal responsibility and enterprise.” Blye said whether a child grows up to be
healthy by avoiding drugs and criminal activities is much more likely when the
father is the head of household, particularly for young black men who need
positive role models. And he’s right,
but his assessment does come with a, ‘but’.
That ‘but’ being of course, that blacks essentially refuse to take control
of their own destiny, choosing instead to relinquish that control to the
political party with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
Another one of those voices belongs to Rev. E.W. Jackson, who is founder and president of STAND, said the initiative, “Project
Awakening: A Recovery Plan for American’s Inner Cities, will provide
church-centered programs that address three issues affecting youth in American
inner cities – culture, economics and education.” Rev. Jackson calls the
initiative a “private-sector plan to rescue America’s inner cities” by teaching
youth Christian values such as the importance of marriage in child-rearing, as
well as educating and training young people for successful careers. Rev. Jackson said he hopes the initiative will
spread to include cities across the country.
These men prove that there are, in fact, voices of
reason within the black community. Sadly
though, they are, more often than not, the voices that go ignored, or are
simply drowned out, in favor of those more incendiary in nature and which are
also the ones that preach nothing more than hate and victimization and who also
work to further ingrain the sense of entitlement that has become so rampant
within our minority communities. Blacks
in this country really are their own worst enemy. Because when provided with a choice of
listening to men like Rev. Blye or Rev. Jackson, or to ‘Rev’ Al Sharpton, ‘Rev’
‘Jesse’ Jackson or ‘Minister’ Farrakhan, most blacks tend to choose the latter.
And yet why is it that most blacks would rather
listen to the men like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or ‘Calypso Louie’ Farrakhan
than to men like Rev. Blye or Rev. E.W. Jackson? It is at the end of the day that blacks must
come to realize that by making such a
choice they do themselves no favors.
Because they, and they alone, are the ones able to clean up their
communities and demand that their people stop their wasteful lives and work to
make something of themselves. Only they
can do it. And if those in the black
community truly do wish to create a better life for themselves and their
families, they will need to break what is the strange hold of government
dependency.
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