{"id":10196,"date":"2010-06-07T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=10196"},"modified":"2010-06-07T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T19:07:13","slug":"lack-of-pride-in-black-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/letters-to-the-editor\/lack-of-pride-in-black-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of pride in black youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2888a1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10197\" title=\"2888a\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2888a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>By Pastor Rawles Pacquette<\/p>\n<p>Is there any more\u00a0 ride\u00a0 in\u00a0 the black youths of today?<\/p>\n<p>Greetings in the name of my\u00a0 Master, Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. As a boy growing\u00a0 up in\u00a0 Dominica, my friends and I took\u00a0 great pride in everything we did. We respected those older than us, helped the elderly, went to school every day,to church every Sunday, then to the\u00a0 theatre\u00a0 in the evening. Now you can&#8217;t even have\u00a0 a\u00a0 house party\u00a0 without someone getting into a fight.<\/p>\n<p>We stayed up listening to the West Indies\u00a0 Vs\u00a0 India or Australia sitting by the street,and nobody\u00a0 troubled us. But the youths of today\u00a0 believe\u00a0 it\u00a0 is more important to\u00a0 commit\u00a0 crimes\u00a0 against society, and going to prison is like getting a degree.<\/p>\n<p>Summer holidays were\u00a0 the best, we had\u00a0 fun, doing things like going\u00a0 to the beach, camping, visiting families in other villages,etc.<\/p>\n<p>Back\u00a0 to the youths, young women\u00a0 walking half\u00a0 naked, showing\u00a0 booty and thinking it&#8217;s beauty. They use words they\u00a0 don&#8217;t know the meaning of ,words like\u00a0 N&#8230;., etc that great men like Dr. Martin Luther\u00a0 King, Malcolm\u00a0 X, and Gandhi\u00a0 died for. Their parents have no control over them, they talk about the world is enlighten, but there is more darkness in the world\u00a0 today.<\/p>\n<p>Long\u00a0 ago\u00a0 if your friend\u00a0 had a child\u00a0 at an early age, (let&#8217;s say\u00a0 fifteen years old) and your mother\u00a0 saw you talking to her, Lord\u00a0 have\u00a0 mercy on you. If a family member of yours went to prison for rape, etc,\u00a0 the whole village would keep their distance from your family\u00a0 for generations, and they would never stop talking about\u00a0 your family,that&#8217;s the kind of pride\u00a0 we are talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u00a0 there are pastors, teachers, politicians, citizens,\u00a0 etc that are\u00a0 committing crimes against\u00a0 little boys\u00a0 and girls, and they are welcome with open hands,where is the\u00a0 pride\u00a0 we had in the old days?<\/p>\n<p>There\u00a0 are parents that keep telling their children that prison was not build for animals, they are brainless idiots that know zero\u00a0 about discipline. Why do you want someone to tell you\u00a0 when to eat, drink, shower and go to bed? You only say\u00a0 these things to kids. But it&#8217;s\u00a0 more important to be call a gangster than a gentleman.<br \/>\nBlack is very beautiful, but not when we degrade ourself. 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