The Rage of Young Men—Part II
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post that would?be the Part I?to this one. After what happened in Texas on Tuesday our nation has succumbed to its 101st?mass shooting over the last several years. The next country on that list had 4 in the same span of years.
I ended that Part I blog with, “Become a father.”?
My first thought was that it’s an idiotic thing to say. But it was an attempt to be clever, albeit true, and I’m not sure the events of this week thrust home my point any better?
First let me tell you what it’s not about.?
Gun control.
Politics—Left vs. Right.
Religion.
Pro-life, Pro-choice.
Racism.?
And any other hot button issue that our media machine would have you believe that it is.
19 mothers lost their babies and blame will never restore that hurt. Not now, not ever.
So, let me get to the point and perspective from someone in the social justice trenches with 15 years experience.
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In America, we have lost the greatest asset the world has ever known in our children. We have convinced them that they deserve?things. That everyone wins, that everyone gets the trophy, that we, because we are Americans are entitled to the world at?our?beckon call.
The world. Really?
Gone, seemly is the authoritative parental guidance of, “Let me show you what I know, and you can work for what you hope for.”
In the neighborhood we have given our life to, the men in it are either somewhere else or in jail. The mothers of the forgotten are faced with multiple jobs to make ends meet, addiction, abuse from what man might be left around, and a catastrophic failure from faith-based groups and help house’s inane routines of handing out stuff that make them feel good instead of providing actual help.
Here’s a wakeup call—Money doesn’t work, love them and leave them philosophies create entitlement and more debt and are based on the wants of the volunteer base and not from the needs of the underserved. The War on Poverty is dead, broken, and frankly ludicrous.?
19 babies died and a precious grandmother shot in the head because she parentally threatened to take this kid’s cell phone away. * It was more important to this teen to keep his cell phone than the life of his grandmother and the lives of little children.
It was my intent to use,?Become a Father, as a paradigm for responsibility and action for those fathers out there that have failed the mothers of their children so significantly. However, I think I was wrong on that assumption.
Satan’s greatest victory has been his assault on the family, particularly fathers. But the ripple effect’s tragedy impacts and destroys the mothers and our children’s community leaving them hopeless and without solid ground to rebuild.
And we as men, have walked away.
*Because the information and investigation is still fluid as of this writing, our assumptions are based upon what is currently known and used only as an allusion to this specific post. We are in no way condemning the hard work of our social justice missionaries in this article but are using it as a rallying cry for modern outside the box thinking and action.