May 1st
It’s a “Stop the Violence (part 1)” Day
LORD, GOD HELP, US TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO STOP THE VIOLENCE AND SAVE THE CHILDREN. AMEN.
I agree with the experts that there are many sources of violence: gangs, drug dealing, racism, family and personal stress, lack of opportunities, alcoholism and other drug abuse, easy access to weapons, and lack of support networks of family, friends, and neighbors.
Stopping violent crime can mean working on one or more of these problems, depending on the situation in your neighborhood or town. There is something each of us can and must do. Educating others about self-protection, forming community action groups, working to strengthen troubled families, guiding addicts and alcoholics to treatment and helping in a crisis, seeking to improve job and educational opportunities, preventing drug abuse — each of these chip away at violent crime.
Whatever we do must be designed to change the behavior of our youth, young adults, family members, and friends. We can build and develop all the recreational and entertainment facilities money can buy (and we must do this), but if we don’t change the behavior of our people, change the way they settle their differences, they will be shooting each other at various playgrounds, skating rinks, and movie theaters. The long-range goal should and must be social and behavioral changes and just incarceration. We must help our youth to go to Penn State rather than State Pen. Besides, it cost more to send them to jail than it does to send them to Yale. We can overcome the crisis that we find ourselves in because God can and will if we seek His Face and direction, deliver us. If we take one step, He will take two. As the late Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell would say: “Keep the faith baby.” Don’t give up. I ask you today, “What are you doing to stop the violence?” More on this subject tomorrow.
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