Black Kids In Asbury Park Shooting Each Other, Part Two: The 35 People Who Are At Fault

By Tommy DeSeno, also published in the April 26 edition of the triCityNews

In the last issue of Justified Right we printed Part One of this series, wherein the “Moynihan Report” of 1965 was revisited for its thesis that the reason poor black children in America struggle is due to the absence of a father in the household.

Statistics, as pointed out in that report, reveal that the nuclear Black family with both parents in the household see their children grow up on average with higher IQs, less crime and more financial success than their single mother counterparts.

The rate of fatherless households among poor black families has grown since 1965, and as predicted by the Moynihan Report, education and upward mobility has been stifled while crime among poor black youth still far outstrips that of their black and white nuclear family counterparts.

The uselessness of government trying to respond to societal problems couldn’t have more empirical proof than comparing the trillions of dollars in social programs from Roosevelt’s New Deal, through Johnson’s Great Society up to ObamaCare to the continued deterioration of the poor black family in America despite all that government futility.

Locally in Asbury Park, Mayor Ed Johnson grew tired of complaints at the City Council meeting about the lack of government response to the problems of black youth shooting each other, and newspapers reported the Mayor said: “How in the world do we expect our children to treat each other better when we treat each other badly…”  Nice job, Rodney King.  “Can’t we all just get along?”

I’m teasing the Mayor, because he is right.  Why ask for government repair of a problem the government is ill equipped to fix?  Government may be to blame for the continued deterioration of poor black families through the false security of welfare that keeps poor blacks on the Democrat plantation rather than encouraging them to take a chance and soar off of it. However, the government isn’t the one who has abandoned trying to help poor blacks (no matter how misguided the attempt, at least government tried).  I promised last week to reveal the identity of 35 people who are to blame right here in Asbury Park.

There are 35 churches in Asbury Park and I indict every one of them for abandoning their role as shepherds of people toward virtue to the growing secular idol of government as the way to goodliness.

Prior to 1753 the church was in charge of marriages and with it the sanctity of couples committing to one another for life.  In that year the British Parliament passed “The Marriage Act,” wrestling control of marriage away from the church and making it a government enterprise complete with licensing fees and eventually taxes.   Marriage itself has lost its holy grace and has become a document you buy at City Hall at the same window where they sell dog tags.  Divorce rates now compare to marriage rates.  That’s what happens when the church bows to Caesar – the churches’ congregation does as well.

It is not just on the issue of marriage, but the Church has gone on to ignoring more and more of the positions of the American left-wing as solutions to the problems of the impoverished.

Pope Leo XIII’s “Rerum Novarum” in 1891 said too much government involvement, “The socialists, therefore, in setting aside the parent and setting up a State supervision, act against natural justice, and destroy the structure of the home.” Indeed.  That was reaffirmed by Pope John Paul II a hundred years later in Centesimus Annus.

Both of those works affirmed the goodliness of private property, something lost on social welfare types. They never encourage the poor to gain their own.

Despite that sure blueprint, the flock of Christians in the United States and Catholics in particular have a growing unawareness of the perils of government intrusion into the family and property.  When a sheep gets lost – part of the blame belongs to the sheep, but also to the Shepherd.   The flock has been ceding power to big government despite their church’s opposition.

While American leftists make light of “value voters” they ignore the damage the lack of values causes in creating single parent homes.

The single pregnant woman was at one time held up to scorn, and perhaps that was hurtful.  In our efforts over the years to avoid insulting her, we have given the wrong impression that it is acceptable to be in a broken home.  Reject the “values” part of it if you wish – but don’t ignore the proofs evident since The Moynihan report of what single parenting has done to the poor black family.  They turn to the government promise that they can eat without working, instead of depending upon their own free will. When government fails them, as it will, hunger turns to anger.  They should be turning to core values for answers instead.

Poor black children have lost their way in Asbury Park to the point of shooting one another.  Church leaders do nothing more than appear at rallies and mock government.  Instead of the Church preaching “the way” out of that problem they ask government what to do.  What a failure of evangelicalism!

Jesus did not rally Caesar to action. He rallied the people to help themselves.  Our churches are not doing the same.

I suggest they start with this:

Thessalonians 3:10:  If a man shall not work, he shall not eat.

Posted: April 30th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Asbury Park, marriage | Tags: Asbury Park, Blacks kids shooting each other, Caesar, Great Society, Mayor Ed Johnson, New Deal, ObamaCare, Pope John Paul II, Pope Leo, Rodney King, The Marriage Act, The Moynihan Report | 7 Comments »

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