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David W. Johnson, Jr.
I am a father, stepfather; grandfather, brother, uncle, great uncle, nephew, cousin and friend. I am an African American male living in America who has been blessed to see age fifty-eight but not because I grew up in a strong family environment. For ten years, I was fortunate enough to have a set of terrific, grandparents. God chose to call them home when I was ten-years old. From then on, I was more-or-less on my own. Handed off like a football from one family member to the next until I were in my early teens.
There is a humongous difference between living with a family and living with a loving family. After my grandparent’s death, my first understanding of a non-loving family came when I was forced to live with my mother, her boyfriend and four of my siblings. That lasted about three years. My mother’s boyfriend was an abuser. While my brother and three sisters were willing to look the other way, I was not, so I was handed off to my grandmother on my mother’s side.
The story and the madness continued for years to come, until I was old enough to join Job Corps and then the Army. For a longtime after that, life “cut me little or no slack” and the streets raised me. I was able to survive and reach the point I am today, thanks to the love and caring of mostly strangers, along the way. I sincerely believe if I were a teenager today I would not make it to twenty-eight and surely not fifty-eight.
This book is about lifting spirits, changing and saving lives of today and tomorrow’s young people.
When I was growing up neighbors, teachers, the community police officers and the judicial systems were not about just doing a job but they cared about children overall. It is not just a saying that, “It Takes A Community To Raise A Child.” It is the TRUTH and it is more IMPORTANT today than it has ever been. The obstacles standing in young people’s way today is almost insurmountable. We must stop caring about what side of town, skin color, race or nationality, country, county or city and start caring that it is all children that need our help.
Oftentimes even with parents, the road to survival and success is a difficult one for young people. Surviving without parents, or dedicated parents is next to impossible but I am here to tell you, it is not impossible. I would not want any young person to live my young life, if it is at all avoidable.
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Parents, teachers, neighbors, friends, police officers and communities, what I am saying is this, if you have children do what you must to standby them and keep them on the right track. Try to see that they have a better life growing up, than you had. No matter if, your childhood was terrific. Show them love, respect and give them lots of support.
There is nothing sadder or more discouraging for a child than having parents who are nothing more than “figure heads,” or “parents who only give birth.
I can attest to the fact that if parents are not good to and for you, you have the tendency not to be good for and to your children. It took me a while and many trials and tribulations before I came to understand and appreciate what it means to be a father and grandfather. Like any human being, I am still lacking in some areas but I am quickly improving.
What I know for sure, unless all men, but especially African American men do not step-up and give women a much needed hand raising our children we will be facing self-destruction akin to genocide, in the very near future.
Some may think my last statement is perhaps “overstated” but I assure you there is not a lot of “grey area” between “self-destruction” and “genocide.”
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by: David W. Johnson, Jr.
There was a time when our young people aspired to be like…
Like neighbors across the street or police officers on the beat
Young age, they had someone to teach him or her to fly a kite
Hair cut or plaited and their clothes were worn nice and neat
Teachers worried about children’s education, not their safety
Children were taught to help senior citizens, not rob or kill them
Of really good and supportive adults, children had a large variety
Adults were there to help children and not so quick to condemn
Children had a disagreement they took it to the gym or playground
Guns were not for children but police, hunters and soldiers at war
Adults tried to lift children up, not watch them being knocked down
Taught all children the game plan and what children were living for
Today adults care more about Keno than about raising their children
Only time they become concerned is when their children get in trouble
They cannot see that the road to success for their children is very thin
Adults better wake-up and start coming to children’s aid on the double
It is ludicrous when you have adults helping children beat up other adults
Children out of schools early, instead of going home are causing problems
When children have children, negative incidents are the unfortunate results
From our children having no adult role models are where these things stem
Should be clear to African-Americans that the legal system is not on their side
A father beaten by teenagers and an adult but the serious charges are dismissed
This incident happen in Baltimore, Maryland but such things happens Nationwide
Unless African-Americans start to turn, their lives around such things will persist
Obviously, the News Media relishes in the fact that we are destroying one another
Ratings are up when we kill one another and down when we start showing love
Come on my African-American family; let the world see we can love each other
Show our children we are leaders not just “Following In The Footsteps Of….”
This Is Not A Game..For Our Children..It Is Life Or Death
Greetings David, nice to meet you...wnder-full to hear and see some of us taking re-spons-ability of our children...they will indeed be-come the next Drs, Pilots, Teachers and the like....let us raise a nation to be proud of.. ElleView All Comments