I was a on Myrtle Ave Yesterday. Eating some good ole halal chicken over rice and enjoying the new benches that now surround the trees that grow in that part of Brooklyn. A local black business owner and I notice an unidentified young lady rushing and struggling to manage the momentum of a shopping cart carrying two very large bags of what appeared to be laundry. Now just ahead of her was an unidentified elderly gentleman... apparently enjoying a stroll in the sweet summer air of his recently gentrified nighborhood. Old men strolling is rarely if ever conducive to rapid pedestrian traffic on Myrtle Avenue...or any place else for that matter.... but what occurred was utterly appaling to both my and my fellow spectator the local business owner. You see... the young woman quite rudely and intentionally shoved her shopping cart past the Miracles Barbershop and up to mere inches behind the gentlemans heels... carefully not to actually hit him she never the less hearded him out of her way as one might do a sheep or some other pet of some kind, and proceeded to struggle and rush along with her load of laundry dry.....away from the laundry at on the opposite corner. The gentle nonplussed simply apologized to her and moved and continued his stroll undaunted In The least. HOWEVER I WAS ABSOLUTELY gobsmacked. Where in the world is such disrespect acceptable and appropriate behavior? My new friend chimed in and replied... apparently right here in Brooklyn nowadays. Says I: every single one of my peers were and still are too afraid of our parents to even allow ourselves to think to do such a thing. And quite naturally we engaged on the familiar debate of parents not raising their kids with any moral accountability any longer.... And yes we referenced the typical examples of ass whooping and old ladies hanging out the windows hollering at us by name in order to check bad behavior and such... But then the discussion took a turn towards the sociological dynamics and mechanics that helped engender such deplorable moral deficiencies bankruptcies and the consequential personal and social curruption and decay underlying the behavior we had just witnessed. I blamed post integration era educational institutions. I believe that despite Thurgood Marshall and Brown v. THE Board of Education. And the peric victory it presented to the equal rights movement... de-segregation was not the goal of the NAACP or the Black Communities they ostensibly repsresented. Desegradation was the concession offered in response to the victory over the so called seperate but equal.precedents upheld in both the Plessey and Dread Scott Cases....In terms of civil rights. The flames assumption was that white American schools where superior at the time and black inclusion into those higher educational institutions would serve to level the playing field..... THEY HAVE NOT. There has not been another mind like Thurgood Marshall since Thurgood Marshal. With the exception of Barak...perbaps....that was produced in a predominantly black community educational system ....and certainly not here Brooklyn. The integration of blacks into white schools has resulted in the disintegration of the moral fiber of our communities. The reality of child abuse and the potential for it in circumstances of violent conflict resolution is of course considerable. However when the agency of enforceability of cultural and moral standards is removed from the communities and households as well as the teachers in the schools and left up to the blatantly racist classist and generally corrupted judicial/legal system.... which may to some degree work well in European ethnic communities....This only serves to undermine the cohesion of non European and in particular Black and Hispanic communities here In brooklyn. OUR PARENTS ARE THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY UNDER GOD IN OUR LIVERS. Country and flag government and the law are at best secondary to these two higher authorities.And any elder from umong us will tell you that teachers where at one time respected and obeyed implicitly by both ourselves and our parents....because they were of course members of our communities and families But once the black and hispanic communities educational systems were ...diss...integrated... and spoken of as having been desegregated... These moral authorities were replaced I such such a way that it has proven to have crippled the moral faculties of our youth. We have access to the internet....examine if you will the drop out rates between 1960 and now.... as compared.against prior to Brown vs Board of Ed. The crime rates.... the unemployment rates.... the enrolment in higher education and the military. ... The public. School System has failed miserably ever since the diss-integration era. The elimination of both prayer ....and in several.schools even the pledge of allegience... to say nothing of the black solidarity national anthem....Lift every voice and sing. .. the emphasis on abstracted curriculum that focus sites more on teacher performance than actually enlightening the minds of our young people. The defending of music. The arts and extra curricular activities..... and so on and so on.... And of course as usual.... our discussion came to the familiar exasperating close of surrender and acceptance of the conditions for all they are....poor kid had someplace important to be...and yes it was more important than that old mans Saturday stroll.... and ironically enough she had every right to ignore him.... After all havent we all ignored her for the past 50-60 years too.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:45:37 +0000
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