Be honest about your failure

This past week, another black child was murdered in the northern part of Saint Louis…….I think that brings us to 25.  TWENTY FIVE kids below the age of 18….murdered since March.  The police are describing this latest one as a targeted hit.  Think about that….fifteen years old…..a targeted hit.

Listen to me…..EVERY SINGLE ONE of these murderers are known….EVERY SINGLE ONE.  Somebody in “the hood”, and that is what most of northern Saint Louis is, doesn’t get gunned down with nobody knowing who did it.  Keep that in my mind.

So what do we do?  Candle light vigils for people of the dead that KNOW someone that knows who did it?  That’s cool….hasn’t stopped or improved anything, but if you need to burn a candle and release a balloon, a dove, or whatever the hell, get on it.

But here is what Saint Louis did.  The board of alderman (sort of like a Pelosi congress) put EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS into a community activist program to fix this violence.  The metro Saint Louis area is short 150 sworn officers….but we are not going to hire more, we are not going to get rid of the piece of shit city and county prosecutors who think cops are the problem, we are going to give eight million bucks to a program with ZERO track record of success.

This is nauseating.  This story of these murders should be on the front page of every legitimate newspaper.  And the reason it is not is because the people that caused this problem will not confront the problem.  This has nothing, and I mean NOTHING to do with guns.  It has EVERYTHING to do with society.  No law, no regulation, no policy is going to stop this.  What IS going to stop this is a return to, and I know that most don’t want to hear this; families with two parents, and hearts rooted in a church.

How many more Kumbaya, balloon releasing, candlelight vigils will we endure, (all if which produce absolutely nothing), before we get true leaders that will stop this shit?  You don’t need more money, you don’t need more programs…..you need more character, you need more values……and most of all……

…….you need more honesty.