(ThyBlackMan.com) I applaud Judge Greg Mathis for his transparency when he tells of his upbringing in a single female-headed household. Mathis’ testimony reveals him as a hell-raiser who gave his dear mother, Alice Lee Mathis, more than her fair share of problems.
Indicative of so many other black women raising wayward children, Ms. Mathis did everything in her power to correct the criminal lifestyle her child adopted. Mathis relates that it was not beneath this loving mother to call the authorities on her child if she suspected he was involved in wrongdoing. Lord knows that Chicago needs a few more parents like Alice Lee Mathis.
I am confident that you have heard that over the past weekend, gunmen in Chicago shot at least 72 people, 12 of those victims of gun violence succumbed to their injuries. There is little room to argue against the assertion that Chicago has earned the right to change its moniker from “the windy city” to “Chiraq.” When one considers the murder rate in this great American city, it is evident that the violence gripping the city is never-ending.
Predictably, the violence has led to finger-pointing between the black community and Chicago public officials. Embattled Mayor Rahm Emanuel offered the following statement.
There is a shortage of values about what is right, what is wrong. We as a city, in every corner, have an accountability and responsibility. If you know who did this, be a neighbor. Speak up.
Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson provided the following commentary regarding the untenable situation that predates his arrival to his present post. According to Johnson,
They hold me accountable, they hold the mayor accountable, they hold the City Council accountable. You know what I never hear? I never hear people saying these individuals out on the street need to stop pulling the trigger. I never hear that. They get a pass from everybody.
One has to wonder, who would give such individuals a pass?
Although difficult for on-lookers to understand, the identity of those who behave as if they are making a Satanic blood sacrifice by spilling the blood of blacks in one way or another (shootings, drug dealing, 
assaults, sexual assault, murder) is known by a wide-swath of those they victimize. Although an embarrassing admission, it is only within Black America that both present and future victims of violence refuse to identify a roguish element that has turned their residential areas into war zones resembling a third-world nation.
As mentioned above, there is much room for haranguing and finger-pointing. Indicative of such is the argument that the referenced crime spree is attributable to the economic violence that poor blacks routinely receive from city elites. Rest assured that I am neither unaware nor in denial of a strain of institutional racism that manifests itself via black and brown poverty. Unfortunately for those attempting to trace the alluded to criminality and immorality of those committing historic atrocities in Chiraq, their explanation flounders when one realizes that it is a minuscule portion of Black America that has embraced a thuggish culture that rests on a demonic ends-justify-the-means mentality.
The path to solving the startling issues afflicting Black Chicago begins with Black America’s realization that no one is coming to save them. Although the genesis of the previously discussed crime is not entirely homegrown, the undeniable reality is that the solution to this matter will have to come from black Americans as no one is coming to save them. Until this reality is understood, there is not even a grain of hope that Black America will rise from their historical position of socioeconomic marginality.
If Black America is serious about carving out a place where black children can play, black women are somewhat protected from predators, and black men are not murdered on a routine basis, the less savory portions of our community must be jettisoned from our midst ‘by any means necessary’; including with the assistance of law enforcement agencies.
It is time that the evil-doers in our midst learn that Black America will no longer serve as a shield for their deplorable actions and immoral activities. Until that message is sent seriously, there is no real hope that we will be able to build communities that will flourish as we know they can.
Staff Writer; Dr. James Thomas Jones III
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