The fallout from the Connecticut school shooting and the ludicrous concept that reinstating the so-called assault weapons ban would stop future incidents has occupied this column for the past two weeks.
As I said last week, I hate writing about the same thing two weeks in a row; but this subject is multi-faceted and in areas you would not expect at first blush.
My thought is that the ultimate solution to any social problem is parenting; and to that end, I have a question of President Obama and his wife, who appear to be classic role models as a couple and as parents.
The latest information that the Federal Government has available is that in the black community—which voted 93 percent for Obama in 2012—72.1% of the births in 2008 were to unmarried mothers. That’s up from 37.5% in 1970.
72.1%. Put another way, that means that roughly 721 out of every 1,000 black kids is raised in a fatherless household.
And it’s not like the rest of the nation has all that much to be proud of. Hispanics clock in at 53.4% and whites at 35.9%, which are less eye-popping but are still an embarrassment. In all, it’s a lot of single-parent households raising kids, mostly mothers.
So my question for the President and the First Lady is: “Where are you on this issue?”
Try finding a statement, pre or post his 2008 election from him or her on the issue.
He had plenty to say about gay marriage during the last election campaign. He was all for that.
But you see the black-on-black crime statistics in places like, say, Chicago, and you have to wonder why America’s first black President has lost his voice.
One possible answer is that while Obama is undeniably black, he doesn’t have the street credibility of being black enough to lecture the black community the way a Bill Cosby did. And Cosby, when he let loose his rant in 2004, took a huge beating from the black establishment. (He was unimpressed and continued to speak out.)
While Cosby is best known as an entertainer, he happens to have a PhD from UMass in education. His credentials in the area are certainly the equal of the President’s.
He said at a dinner to honor the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision: “I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18, and how come you didn’t know that he had a pistol? And where is the father?”
There is no question that Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are not the kind of parents Cosby was referring to.
But their silence is deafening.
It is similar to the silence we heard from many American Muslims who, after 9-11, were asked their opinion on radical islamists and answered “It is not for me to judge.”
I don’t know how much impact it would have if President Obama were to come out and say about his own black community what Cosby said, but it could not hurt. In fact, it could only be helpful.
And I’m a believer that even if he reaches just a small part of that constituency, it will have a good long-term effect. Far more effective than his inevitable political loss from an attempt at a gun ban of some sort.
I saw him on TV last weekend, and he told NBC’s David Gregory that he had to do something.
What he didn’t say was that whatever he did would necessarily have any effect. The calculus seemed to be purely political.
And, of course, the chattering class on Meet the Press still doesn’t understand that one of the exact reasons the Second Amendment exists is to keep the government at arm’s length. They likely never will.
We can only hope Obama, with no more campaigns ahead of him and no more elections to win, would break out of his political box and suggest to his most loyal constituency that two-parent households work.
Because gun-grabbing doesn’t.
If we’re going to have a “national conversation”, how about we talk about restoring parental responsibility as a concept instead of how we go about taking away a law-abiding citizen’s constitutional rights.
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Everyone must go on to the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership website and order the book, “Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny” ($20). It fully details how U.S. Gun Control Acts, specifically the 1968 Gun Control Act was lifted, verbatim, directly from the 1938 Nazi Weapons Act for total gun ban. It explains that Thomas Dodd, former US Senator Christopher Dodd’s (D-CT.) father was able to obtain the written version of the Nazi gun control laws after the Nuremburg Trials which he participated in.
Why would anyone want to obtain original papers for Nazi gun control and bring it to the U.S.? Because there was NO template for gun control in the United States and any attempts would be unconstitutional. It is unconstitutional anyway that a U.S. law was co-opted from a Nazi law.
Any U.S. politician, whether Congress or state legislator, who has proposed or signed on to any gun control or gun ban laws is in direct violation of his Constitutional Oath of Office to uphold, support & defend the U.S. Constitution. This support of a Nazi gun control law that has been adopted verbatim by US gun control law is in a continuous state of Treason & Sedition and must be removed from office/impeached and tried for Treason & Sedition.
What is interesting is that many Democrat Congresspeople supporting Senator Diane Feinstein’s gun ban bill, including Chuck Schumer, Jerold Nadler, Frank Lautenberg, etc., and even NYC Mayor Bloomberg are Jews. I guess they never read their history lessons about Nazi Germany. Wouldn’t it be grand if these Jewish Congresscritters were charged, tried and convicted of Treason & Sedition for trying to impose an adopted Nazi gun control/gun ban law against We the People?????
NoMoreMarxistsinDC, Chuck Schumer, Jerold Nadler, Frank Lautenberg, and NYC Mayor “blooming idiot” Blloomberg are self-hating Jews. They are the same slime-bags as George Soras who betrayed Jews in Germany while Hitler ruled and turned them over to Hitler for extermination. I consider them FALSE Jews just like I consider Pelosi, Kerry and Biden FALSE Catholics/Christians. About the black community still voting for Obama in 2012. Well, I see it this way. They are bringing on their own destruction. Their dependence on the government to support their one-parent families IS enslavement. I guess some people like being enslaved, or they are so brainwashed that their brains are beyond repair.
I completely agree. A lot of our troubles started when mothers went to work and no father in the household.
We need strong family ties, being taught right from wrong, getting a good education etc and the parents being on top of what their kids are doing at all times. I know this isn’t the complete answer, but it is a better answer than what they are doing.
HE DOESN’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO CALL OUT BLACK PARENTS, AS BILL COSBY DID…..AFTER ALL, BILL COSBY IS A TRUE AMERICAN……UNLIKE OBAMA……
Keep dreaming, Mr. Weinberg. I fear that Barack Obama has a pathologically serious spiritual problem that would keep him from ever making a genuine commitment to something as righteous as you have suggested. Proverbs 4:16 says, “For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.” The verse describes a kind of person whose conscience has been so turned upside down that they feel guilty and cannot sleep unless they have done something wrong or evil recently. The human heart at its essence is either aligned with Heaven or Hell and is therefore either motivated by Heavenly or Hellish influences. The destruction Obama leaves in his path shows where his heart is. Can you point to anything good that has come from the man? To think he might try to sincerely use his power for good flies in the face of reality. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Ephesians 6:12) There is spiritual wickedness in the high places of Washington, D.C.
You have written words of profound truth, ConservaDave. Hopefully, many will read your comment and take action. Prayer changes things, and I pray for our leaders will seek a renewed focus on the Great Truths of God’s Word. There is a recognizable tension in our country…….since 2009. Decency and values are barely visible in many places.
Discipline begins at home; however, there are so many parents who take no responsibility for the children they have. Sadly, there are kids having kids…….realizing they will get, what they think are, “freebies”. This
government has taken so much ‘goodness’ from us……. by lying, by encouraging immorality, by pushing aside the Constitution, and by aggressive intimidation; thus, dividing and causing violence. There are so many “takers” in society, and local government agencies need to focus on this. Too many irresponsible people are taking advantage of ‘the system’, and our president is taking advantage of taxpayers. We have elected officials who need to be reminded of their “Taking an Oath”. “We The People” justly deserve to hold them accountable. Pray for wickedness in high places to be removed from ruling in an unjust and truculent way. See Psalm 109:8……and remember: Prayer changes things!
keynan checkerboard bozo. destroying our country with hate !!!
The answer is simple NO!!!! BHO is not black enough enough to be called black!
What do you mean “black enough”, Fred old sport?
If by “black” you mean “Negro” (which means “black”, Obama is not black at all.
The namesake Obama claims as his birth father actually adopted him. Comparison of Obama’s Y-DNA with that of close male relatives of his show it’s biologically impossible for Obama to be the son of Barack Hussein Obama the alien black Luo tribesman who made a sham marriage with Stanley Ann Dunham to cover the birth out of wedlock of the son of Stanley Ann’s father.
Obama’s color comes from a predominantly Polynesian mother.
We all come from Africa, birthplace of the human race. Some 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, the African ancestors of Obama’s birth father came out of Africa and migrated Westerly. Through eons they became pale in an environmental adaptation. About the same time his birth mother’s forebears came out of Africa and migrated Easterly. They came together (maybe in a Petri dish) in Hawai’i to produce Obama. Each of them was genetically as far from Negro as it’s possible for a person to be.
Obama just pretends to be half Negro to dupe voters and as carapace against investigation of his true racial heritage, his true citizenship (Indonesian, not American) and his corrosive subversion of America.
Wake up, Fred. Demand official inquiry into Obama, at long last, starting with subpoenae of his DNA and his original Hawai’ian birth certificate. (The “long form birth certificate trotted out by Obama on 27 April 2011 was based on a picture of his amended birth certificate, required in adoptions, naming adoptive parents.)