Dear Editor:
I am not much of a touchy feely guy, most of my emotions result from thought, not from feelings, but I am really starting to wonder when the state, news media and community will start showing some support for the law enforcement attempting to hold things together in St. Louis and Ferguson?
This is not about racism which is the black and liberal's go-to card because that's easy. It's not going to be solved by Jesse and Sharpton, who are nothing but race baiters, call them for what they are. The solution lies in the black community. You (the black community) can not keep going on celebrating violence as a solution.
Boys and girls just look at the facts of the great society experiment and what it has done to the black families. Up until the beginning of the social experiment of welfare beginning, Negroes (blacks) had fewer out-of-wedlock children than any ethnicity and were climbing steadily up the economic ladder. Lyndon Johnson ended this progress with the stroke of a pen that made babies out of wedlock a money maker and destroyed family cohesion. It does not take a village to raise a child, it takes a home, a mom and a dad.
Martin Luther King was not the most moral person on the planet, but he had some great ideas and was a leader. He said that you should judge men by their character, instead of his color are words to live by, and he is right.
This nonsense and misbehavior in St. Louis is just wrong for the whole community and for the black community in particular. To protest/riot because a cop shot back is just, well, ignorant! We don't know what really happened when Brown was shot. So how about we hold off the protesting until we have something to protest?
There seems to be no common sense leaders in the area or in Jefferson City. The police chief of Ferguson apologized for what? "You" (you, meaning everybody, black and white) and all the others that are pointing fingers at the law enforcement officers need to walk in their shoes and show support. We have problems, but burning the American flag, neighborhood store and throwing rocks at a guy who just wants to go home to his wife and kids will not be the cure. The disease needs to be treated, not the symptoms.