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Aug 28, 2010, Washington DC
Affirmative Action That We Need
By. Rev. Dr. Tommy Davis
I am often the target of verbal opposition from some in the community regarding the content of my published works. Just recently, an older black woman called me by phone and stated that she would choke me if I were in her presence. She opposed my disagreement with the contemporary use of affirmative action in which I understand as reverse racism in the allocation of employment and educational opportunities. Just because I am a black American, she concluded that I should think inside the status quo of the African-American community.
After locating her whereabouts, I then advised that such anger should be aimed towards certain members walking our city streets who are currently peddling narcotics and discharging illegal firearms who take no interest in responsible employment nor education. I also gently communicated that her fury should be an encouragement to join forces with the law abiding citizenry to reduce crime by removing violent criminals from the community in order that the younger generation will be less influenced by misdeeds. This zero tolerance approach helps the disadvantaged notice real opportunities.Obviously, my caller had certain expectations of the “good reverend” (that I would not retaliate) before she made her call. The only consequence of this tender intimidation on my part was renewed motivation. The affirmative action that I would support is the aggressive enforcement of law and order in our neighborhoods.
I have personally responded to at least 30 homicides this year in the city on behalf of the Rochester New York Police Department, and almost all of them began with threats as a result of dissention. Gruesome crime scenes and the comforting of grieving families as a result of senseless executions is a call for law enforcement and the civilian populace to continue an uncompromising struggle to make our streets safer. An assertive approach within the U.S. Constitutional guiding principles will send a clear message to the felonious that they will be separated from the public for the amount of time in proportion to their crime. Afterward, it is my ministerial commitment and delight to send religious representatives in an attempt to assist the criminal into becoming law abiding citizens. Sins must be confessed and then repented.
The quandary is not failed efforts or lack of strategies within our police departments. The embarrassment surfaces when the criminal cries “fowl” and scuttle to certain community figures for shelter after the commission of crimes. If the general public pursue and threaten to choke those who are concerned about the safety and the real progress of individuals in our local economy, it creates a larger faction that decelerates the process of advancement that eventually affects the entire nation.
Lastly, responsible adults in any community must engage disagreements through the use of intellectual capital which demonstrates to our youth that physical violence is a weakness and that cerebral activity with regard to human life is a superior option.
All POW-MIA
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1 phantomlord // Dec 8, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Based on my own experiences with my cousins in Rochester, the words of people like Bill Cosby and Clarence Thomas, etc. I think the biggest problems comes down to responsibility (both personal and familial) and self-respect.
I don’t think race matters, rather is it a community mentality held by many that someone else is always to blame for their plight. Rather than look at the number of broken households dependent on the government for their daily needs, they blame everyone else for holding them down. They see a Paris Hilton or Bill Gates and assume everyone outside the hood has it just as easy, so they should too. They see someone work 16 hours a day to build a modest business and figure why do all the hard work when they can make more money selling drugs.
What they never seem to want to do is look around them. The drugs they selling are destroying their own communities. The fathers are getting locked up for doing stupid stuff (like selling drugs or shooting a store clerk) or simply bailing on their progeny. They don’t instill the values of education and hard work.
Because they’re always busy blaming everyone else for their problems, they never learn self-respect and with it, the value of earning something and providing for themselves and their family. My parents came from nothing, skipped out on high school and yet decided to make something better for themselves and their kids. Everything in my daily life, my house, my vehicle, my food, my computer, etc is something that I earned through my own hard work. That means I value those things and I value myself.
I would love to see more people try to educate the people from the inner city that it is they who failed themselves and that only they can save themselves. Nobody can overcome adversity if they do not first make the decision to do just that first regardless of how much outside aid is offered. Alas, it is much easier to keep blaming someone else and I don’t know what it would take to get them to see otherwise. For as much as my grandpa, father and I tried reasoning with my aunts and cousins, none of them cared.
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3 rochester_veteran // Dec 9, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Apologies for not responding sooner. I took my son up to the north country for a visit to SLU.
Taking responsiblility for one’s self is the key to taking charge on one’s life. Doing the right thing has alot of pressures attached to it and often, one doesn’t profit monetarily from doing the right thing, however; a person will develop character and also benefit psychologically and spiritually from doing the right thing.
Leftists embrace moral relativism and it’s my opinion that many of the woes that society is facing today have their roots in moral relativism. There is good and evil, right and wrong and the gray area is not as vast as moral relativists make it out to be. God did not give us the Book of Excuses to base our way of living on. In His great wisdom, He gave us the Ten Commandments, absolute rules for living that guide us on how to lead good and moral lives. To put it simply, who would you rather have as your neighbors; people who tried to follow the Ten Commandments, or those who scoffed at that sort of moral absolutism?
The case of Latasha Shaw is a prime example of society gone bad. Latasha Shaw was brutally slain by a mob made up mostly of women and teenage girls. The 36 year old mother was seeking justice for her injured daughter on Driving Park Blvd in Rochester, and was beaten and stabbed to death in front of three generations of her own family as a crowd looked on. No arrests have been made in this case because witnesses are not willing to come forward to the police because of the warped belief that they’d be “ratting out” to “the man”. Many murders in the City of Rochester remain unsolved because of this warped code of the streets. The violence will forever perpetuate itself as long as people are unwilling to follow the Ten Commandments and submit to the rule of the mob, and that rule is fear. It takes courage to stand up to the evils of the thuggery that’s tearing our City apart.
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