In my opinion, I think it starts at home, and being responsible for yourself, family and community.
Make the right choices, make your children go to school, make them study and do homework at home, set goals for them, enforce a strict curfew, get involved with their education... PUSH them to do the best they can. Right now it seems that most parents in the black communities don't want to put an effort to make their child succeed. These children run the streets till all hours, hang out with gangs, listen to their peers that its "Uncool", "Acting White" or "Being an Uncle Tom", if they try to better themselves at school, or not hang out with a gang, or participate in crime.
Those in the community also need to step up, and push the negativity out of their neighborhoods, out of their mentality, and out of their way of life. When someone is murdered or gunned down in a black neighborhood, 100 people could witness it, yet none will come forward and point out who the shooter was. When someone is dealing drugs out of their house, or on the corner, no one speaks up. When someone is assaulted, robbed, or raped, everyone turns the other way. YET they expect police to do 100% of everything for their community, and get upset when something goes wrong....
Take pride in where you live!! If those in the community would take pride in where they live, it would also greatly help. Report those who are doing graffiti, report those who are steering their youth in the wrong direction, report those who you know have illegal weapons, clean up and police the trash in your neighborhood. So many things can be done to make your own neighborhood a positive one. One where a child can walk the streets with their head high.
Break the chain of government dependence! Strive and push your children to break the cycle of depending on the government. This is done thru education, finding positive role-models, making the right choices, instilling a positive home life and setting goals. Also the parents can set an example, by going to a trade school, being active in their children's education and getting involved in school.
Protesting and rioting because someone died at the hands of a police officer is the cowardly way out and deflecting and blaming the problems of their community on something/someone else, that has nothing to do with the problem. If officers never killed another black man, they would still end up killing each other at an alarming rate, unwed teen mothers will still be having babies, children will still grow up in fatherless homes, etc....
They need to fix themselves, as they are hurting themselves, their children and their own communities. They (in my opinion) need to look in the mirror and decide that if they want something done, it starts with the person that's looking back at them. Constantly pointing the finger and blaming someone else, is wrong, they know its wrong, they know who is to blame... but its the easy way out.
This is just my opinion, but I think those in that community are deflecting the blame cause they don't want to realize the truth, and they have no drive to want to do better and are content to repeat the cycle cause its easy.
