Black men in #Chicago

An email this morning from The Black Star Project read, “89% of young Black men in Chicago 16- to 19-years old are not working. 43% of young Black men in Chicago 20- to 24-years old are not in school and not working.  Now we know why there is so much violence in Chicago.  Brothers gotta eat and feed they seed!  Please Click Here to ask President Donald Trump for assistance to put these young Black men to work and reduce violence in Chicago.”

 

Are you kidding me, are you seriously requesting folks to contact the current #potus for assistance to put our “young Black Men” to work?  With all the resources “we” have “we” can put a plan together to help those that look like us?  Are the Chicago Representatives unable to facilitate a program incorporating residents of Chicago?  I guess the element of desire would need to be a factor in facilitating relief for the remaining 43%.   That would mean that folks would have go onto the streets of neighborhoods they would rather see from the “flat screen” in a secure safe environment.

Duckworth, Tammy – (D – IL)
G12 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-2854
Contact: http://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator

 

Durbin, Richard J. – (D – IL)
711 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-2152
Contact: http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/

As I watched the DNC Chair Candidate Forum there were few statements I remember – Robert Vinson Brannum and Keith Ellison – “…it’s time to step up…”

 

It’s time those of us who have $2.00 more than we did 20 years ago to take our Blue and Black Perry Ellis suits jackets off and roll up our sleeves and go back to the neighborhoods from which we came and walk through the door of shame, guilt, and look and faces of our young black men and women who have no purposeful vision and each one literally take one by the hand and walk them on the #bus of opportunity.

 

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4656426/dnc-future-forum-baltimore