America's Fixation on Political Insults While Millions...

How tragic and how immoral that Americans are fixated on political insults
and past behavior
of Trump and Hillary--hour after hour, day after day, month after month....

YET MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER
the terrible earthquake in Nepal which destroyed 800, 000 homes,
600,000 people still live in temporary housing.
Few Americans even know about this real tragedy
and need!

And in Syria over 400,000 precious humans have been slaughtered, millions wounded,

(Photo credit: ABU AMAR AL-TAFTANAZ/AFP/Getty Images)

millions turned into refugees...

YET Americans continue to support sending billions of dollars
for that and other wars:-(

Then there is Haiti and Iraq and Nigeria and Yemen and Somalia and Afghanistan...

And our own crises here...

BUT DID YOU SEE AND HEAR what so-n-so said

on CNN or FOX

about you know who?

Really obscenely unjust::-(

Part #2: Finding Answers and Solutions to BLM

#1: Latent racism still exists and needs to be strongly opposed. And we need to remember that many of the problems in Black communities can be blamed on us as a nation, on our White ancestors in the past. President George Washington owned 317 slaves before, during, and after being president.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Philosopher George Santayana

However, the past is a double-edged sword.

Enslavement wasn't only done by Whites. Incredibly, fairly rich Blacks also owned slaves in the United States including Ana Kingsley in Florida.

In Charleston, South Carolina, 125 free Black men owned their own slaves!

The Black planter John Carruthers Stanly of North Carolina had 3 plantations and enslaved 163 Blacks.

Nicolas Augustin Metoyer a Louisiana Black owned 13 slaves in 1830. He and his 12 family members collectively owned 215 slaves.

Even worse, Blacks in Africa sold millions of Blacks captives to Whites, millions of men and women treated as things by their own race over several centuries.

Furthermore, Muslim slavery also accounts for a huge number of Blacks enslaved for centuries.

But that gigantic holocaust of suffering, abuse, enslavement, and killing was an important factor in the start,
twisting, and continuing misdirection of Black cultural dysfunctions which still cause injustice and suffering today in the United States.

So why hasn't more progress been attained by Blacks since the Civil Rights movement
led by Rustin, King and others over 50 years ago!?

In fact, in some areas, Black behavior and actions have worsened!


#2: Thinkers and activists need to figure out why severe dysfunctional patterns of Blacks are worsening.

For instance, why are so many Black children growing up without a father?

Born to young unwed mothers.

Currently it is more than 72%!

But back in 1965, Black illegitimacy was 24%.

Why has this severely dysfunctional way of living jumped to 72%?

"Children of unmarried mothers of any race are more likely to perform poorly in school, go to prison, use drugs, be poor as adults, and have their own children out of wedlock."

Rates are lower for other groups:
Asians: 17%,
Whites: 29%
Hispanics: 53%
Native Americans: 66%

The historically low rate of suicide among Black youth increased 114% in the 1980's and 90's.

WHY?!

Black young men account for most of the slaughter, so many murders, occurring in Black neighborhoods.

WHY?!

In one week, 99 people were shot in Chicago, 24 of them died. It was the worst day in 13 years.
"Among the wounded that day was a 10-year-old boy shot in the back as he played on his front porch in Lawndale."
Chicago Tribune

Last year at this time, 1, 725 people had been shot, none of them by police.
This year it's 2,514.

Why do so many Black young men choose a life of crime and gun-violence?

WHY?

#3 The Black Lives Matter Movement need to stop the propaganda.

They need to strongly condemn and prohibit violence, and commit to reconciliation.

Lastly, they need to stop blaming all of their problems on police and Whites, and others.

Look, again, at some of the delusionary claims made:
“#BlackLivesMatter is working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically and intentionally targeted for demise

No one, certainly not law enforcement officers, are "systematically and intentionally" targeting Blacks for demise.

According to MBL, Black youths are "often pushed off of an academic track onto a track to prison."

This is simply not true.

In the various school districts I taught in for many years, often with at-risk students, this didn't happen.
On the contrary, we teachers worked extra diligently to help students who were disadvantaged.

We offered lunch-time and after-school-tutoring, sought to make our lessons user-friendly, even for the weakest students.

According to Georgia Sand, police regularly shoot, "unarmed people in the back, tasering children in the head, killing children, or beating pregnant women, among others."

This is also plainly propaganda, not factual information.
That doesn't mean that an unarmed person was never shot, or that a pregnant woman was never mistreated by a police officer.

But police in general do seek to serve and protect. They don't kill kids or abuse pregnant women.


#4: Police officers ought to reconsider the increased tendency to take out their guns in crime scenes, even though over 50 police officers have been gunned down recently.

In some other countries, police seldom use guns.

What can be done to stop violent criminals, without police immediately resorting to gun use?
(My best friend was a police officer for years in a dangerous city, yet he only had to pull his gun out of the holster several times in 20 years!
He and his fellow officers used alternative methods.)

#5 Blacks ought to quit making heroes of Black criminals.

Contrary to their claims, Federal investigators and Grand Jury conclusions are that the police officer who shot Michael Brown didn’t do so with racist intent.

Michael Brown wasn’t an innocent victim of prejudice and police brutality.

On the contrary, Brown was a criminal who attacked the officer, shortly after robbing a store!

The political chant "Hands up, don't shoot" is a distortion, or outright lie.

Brown earlier was caught on security camera roughing up a clerk at a store. And he
had committed other violations of the law.

#6 Work needs to be done on how to help Black young men to reject criminal gangs, drugs, and killings. How does everyone involved in their lives help them instead find meaningful employment.

Almost 40 percent of black males in Milwaukee between ages 24 and 54 are unemployed!

How do we help them get the skills, the diligence and will power, and the job openings to change that disheartening statistic?


#6 Stop blaming the past. Start working to change the present.

Charles E. Cobb, Black civil rights leader, former field secretary of the famous SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee):

“Black people are not faced with anything like the violence that confronted those seeking voting rights five decades ago.

Let’s end the excuses."


To be continued--


In the Light,

Daniel Wilcox

Answering the Untrue Propaganda Against Hillary by Christian Leader, Jim Garlow

This year's election is such a propagandistic, political mud-slinging mess, I've tried to stay out of the pit,
but the anit-Hillary FB article by Jim Garlow,
the famous Christian minister of Skyline Church in San Diego,
is too filled with errors to let it pass:
https://www.facebook.com/jimgarlow/posts/10209897534852304

JIM GARLOW
>>1. The Democratic and Republican party platforms are as >>different as
>>night and day, evil vs. good.

MY RESPONSE to the Christian leader, Jim Garlow
(See picture on the right of he and his wife)

#1 Your statement against the Democratic Party is incorrect.
Let me emphasize that I am NOT a Democrat, have opposed almost every Democratic candidate
for over 30 years, mainly because of their pro-abortion views.

BUT

The Democratic Party Platform isn't "evil."

On the contrary, many of its planks are extremely good--opposing torture, opposing human trafficking,
supporting racial equality, human rights, reforming the criminal justice system, promoting arts and culture, supporting small
businesses, ending poverty, working for the environment, etc.

JIM GARLOW
>>The 51 page Democratic platform is absolutely
the worst ever! An anti-biblical, radical left wing pagan socialist (a
>>socialist is a communist without a gun) would be thrilled with it.

Daniel Wilcox
#2 Jim Garlow needs to remember to "speak the truth in love." (Ephesians 4:15)

The Democratic Platform isn't "anti-biblical," except on abortion.

"Radical leftwing" isn't wrong.

Some of the greatest leaders of history were "radical leftwing," including U.S. Law-violating members of the Wesleyan Church!

Your founders helped run the illegal Underground Railroad, were for prison reform, were the first to ordain women in 1853,
cared for the impoverished, etc.

Sounds very Democratic!

Where is there any "pagan" in the Democratic Platform?

JIM GARLOW
>>Both candidates are flawed. We all know that. >>But
>>permit me an analogy: As a pastor I would rather deal with a >>church
>>attender who is blatant and brash in his sinning than one who is >>devious,
>>hidden, lying, cunning, surreptitious and deceptive.

Daniel Wilcox
#3 Your statement is not only slanderous, it's untrue.

Actually, I'm against voting for Hilary.
I oppose many of her views including her pro-abortion stance,
her support for U.S. first-strike wars in Iraq, Libya, etc.

BUT your personal attack claims against Hillary are incorrect, in fact are slanderous.

Please read her autobiography or a scholarly biography. I've followed her political views and ethical positions through the years.

She is a dedicated religious individual who I disagree with.

But she is sincere, is brilliant, hard-working, and dedicated to helping others.

Don't take my word for it; read her own words:

Hillary Clinton:
"I am a person of faith. I am a Christian. I am a Methodist. My study of the Bible...
has led me to believe the most important
commandment is to love the Lord with all your might and to love your neighbor as yourself, and that is what I think we are commanded by Christ to do."

"And there is so much more in the Bible about taking care of the poor, visiting the prisoners, taking in the stranger,
creating opportunities for others to be lifted up..."
"I think there are many different ways of exercising your faith.”

“I do believe that in many areas judgment should be left to God, that being more open, tolerant and respectful is part of what makes me humble about my faith. I am in awe of people who truly turn the other cheek all the time, who can go that extra mile that we are called to go, who keep finding ways to forgive and move on.”

“For me, the Social Principles of the Methodist Church have been as much a description of our history, as a prod for my future actions."

“We can find direction, if we look to the church’s call to strengthen families and renew our schools and encourage policies
that enable each child to have a chance to fulfill his or her God-given potential.”

She prays regularly, reads her Bible, has been part of women's prayer groups, etc.

JIM GARLOW
>>...we have NEVER seen any one major party candidate
>>so constantly
>>scandalous, so evil-consumed as Hillary.

>>She exceeds ALL >>previous
>>boundaries for wrong doing.



Daniel E. Wilcox
#4 WHAT?!

Exactly, how is Hillary "so evil-consumed"?

Your statement is not true, is historically inaccurate, and downright unworthy of any leader to claim of another leader.

JIM GARLOW
>> In the meantime, we prayerfully, carefully
>>navigate this challenging election season, with great concern >>that above
>>all, we honor our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in every arena of >>our lives,
>>including the voting booth. That is my hope. It is yours as well.

Daniel Wilcox
#5 Conclusion:
Then you need to remember to speak the truth, not make false statements about others. And even where you disagree
strongly, you need to remember not to attack the person, calling her very negative terms.

Instead, explain carefully why you disagree.

And point out areas in which you both agree.

Please read a little history on your own denomination and it's radical founders who supported social justice.

from
https://www.facebook.com/jimgarlow/posts/10209897534852304


Please leave politics and religion and, instead, seek the Truth.

In the Light,

Daniel Wilcox