Who Cares?

                                            Living 2 Die:

I hear stories about gun violence almost weekly throughout the news media. It send chills all over me when I hear that a shooter has shot scores of innocent people for no reason at all. This is tragic. What's equally tragic, are the number of youths within my own city that have died and no one within the community seems to be hurting. At least not hurting enough to be proactive.

     As I sat my grandson down around the kitchen table, I walked through the importance of living life. Not only did I walk through the importance of living life, but I walked him through the importance of living to love others just as yourself. As I was doing this, it never dawned on me, just how many young people have died, until I opened up my laptop to show him the number of murders that have been committed in Augusta during 2019. He was shocked. I too was shocked. But I recognized a difference in these shootings. The same type shootings that have been going on throughout Atlanta, Baltimore, Arkansas, Chicago, Arizona, and other major cities have all involved predominantly black youths. I try not to jump to conclusion, because maybe I'm looking at this in a different way, but I can't help it. I noticed that black youths are at a higher rate of dying young than any other race of people on the planet. No, they're not dying at the hands of white men, Asian men, Hispanic men, or any other group of men, but they're dying at the hands of other black men.
     So.., as I sat down scrolling through those that have been killed, I realized something interesting. What's interesting is this: If blacks hadn't been involved in the murders of their own people in Augusta Ga., then Augusta would be the safest city to live in. Perhaps, at least one of the safest cities.

      Not only have black youths been killing each other at an alarming rate, but many cities throughout America have incurred a daunting social impact secondary to violence that many black youths impose on certain areas. How so? Because of Fear. The murders we read about are real. Why would anyone want to invest, build, or revitalize within an area that has decayed secondary to violence. Somehow, when murders occur often enough within certain areas, people become numb to it and simply accept it.
   There're times when I'm sitting in barber shops, only to hear men (black men) talk about certain shootings as if it's the topic of the day. This is the noose that black men, not white men, carry when they pull the trigger on each other. We talk about it, but too few care to be proactive about it. Black men not only kill other black men at a rapid pace, but they kill dreams and generations that could have possibly been great generations of men and women to come.

      So my question to my grandson was this: Who do you think cares? Not only who cares, but why aren't anyone doing anything? Where are the rising black churches? Where are the black men, fathers who care, brothers who are looking for social change or even Black lives matter? Where are they? As a mentor of black youths, I've never been concern about political jargon just to get attention for a political donation. The truth is: We are witnessing senseless deaths from the hands of out of control black youths and black people are turning their heads as if it's the norm.  It's much easier to say, "it's gang related," when senseless killings of our youths are just as normal as going in to work. How can a slogan like this be used to justify death? 

     Onward, just for one second; lets think out of the box. What if it was a white man that committed the double murder of Jabrie Dominiquez and Charles Lawson, this month in Augusta? What if it was a white man that murdered Malik Harvey & Jahlil Brick house in July 2019? What if an officer murdered Tacorey Brigham in November 2019? What if Tymbralyn Kelly, who was 17 years old, was murdered by someone of a different race? Just what if? By the way, when Tymbralyn was dying, some of his last words were; "I'm not ready to die yet...." Think about it. A 17 year old kid having to murmur those words is not only heart breaking, but no one heard his cry. In case you didn't know, I could tell you what would have happened if it was an officer or white men who would have committed such atrocities. It would have been mayhem. Those African American lawyers that have a platform in the media, the Sharptons and Jacksons of the world would have all stepped down onto the city of Augusta seeking to extract not justice, but dollar signs. So why wouldn't they come now in the event that young blacks are murdering each other? The truth is this: Not only are black men the ones carrying the noose within their own communities, but there is no money to extract when black men kill other black men. Plainly put.., no one cares? 

     The truth is: These 6 deaths named were not even half the number of people killed in the city of Augusta in 2019. Not even half. But who cares? 
     Finally, I ended my conversation this way with my grandson. As you walk through life, you have to be extremely careful in how you conduct yourself and the places you attend. Our society is a big circle. Within this circle, there's  a level of measurement to consider, just like a measuring cup. If you are thuggin, selling drugs, throwing up gang signs, rappin' negative lyrics, beefing, robbing, fighting, hustling (negatively) or hurting others, you are at the bottom of this circle. You are the one carrying the noose. Being at the bottom of this circle profits you nothing but either going to jail or an untimely death. 
 I went on to tell him this. It's impossible to put everything on the system because the system's not involved in the home training of our children. They are not involved in teaching morals, praying and the teaching of how to love others as your yourself. This is the choice that families must engage in, but all too many times, the system is blamed for.
     Finally, when people who commit crime refuse to change, then the only other change that's left to incur, is death. A death that is way too soon.

Christopher Ty:
The Noose of The Black community
https://www.amazon.com/Noose-Black-Community-Christopher-Sullivan/dp/1105562484

Perception of Many

             

 

                   What Do You Think?

     What is it to perception? Perception is one of the greatest experiences that one can create against another. In the eyes of the beholder, this word called perception is enlarged based upon what is seen by the natural eye and above all, those actions that are displayed before the masses.    

     Furthermore, without perception, which is something we all create within our mental faculty, we sometimes hold a veil against the inlets of our mind. Sometimes our belief, is that others will accept how we present ourselves. No matter how we look.

     To add to this, one other great value we experience in life is the freedom to express. It’s our freedom that liberates us to be whoever and whatever we desire for that moment, but our morals mustn’t be forgotten. This is a problem I see time after time and with this problem comes character degradation. 

   However, one must also understand that there is a cost for the freedom in which we walk in during this walk of life. In other words, one of our quest in life should be the discovery of self. “Discovery of what?” you may ask. Well, discovery of the following.

·         Character

·         Morals

·         Respect of Self

·         Respect of Others

·         Ambitions.

     With all due respect, as I’ve worked with youths in the past, I’ve addressed and moved the minds of young men from a dilapidated state, to a higher level of thinking. Many never knew how great of an asset they were over the liability that existed within an uninformed mind. With that being said, the reason so many young men overlook character, morals, respect of self, others and their own ambitions, is all secondary to the ability to create a foundation they’ve never knew existed. Self-Belief.

     So, why do I say this? Well, as I mentioned earlier, perception in and of itself is an experience that is completely automatic. In other words, what you decide to dress like, automatically transmit a signal that carries a weight of influence upon other minds. So, by knowing this, at some point, one must then ask: Why is that I walk around with such a dilapidated character, wanting others to trust, give, and believe in something (me) that goes against the very thought of what they witness before their own eyes..

     When we don’t believe in ourselves and carry ourselves in a misaligned way, then others, want believe in us, and perception is drawn based upon a sensory experience and not a verbal argument.

 

Christopher Ty is the author of The Noose on the Black Community & For

The Love of Her.  

 

https://www.christopher-ty.com

http://www.amazon.com/For-Love-Her-Christopher-TY-ebook/dp/B00KQSX2OC

 

  

 

Anchors In Life

Anchor Weights In Life:

 

    When you hear the word weight, most if not all, know and understand just what a weight entails. There’re many types of weights in life. Some people use weights to ensure they are gaining the right amount of use out of them. When weights are used in this manner, it has a tendency to build muscles within the body. Others may allow weights to settle upon them and it may take years to remove it. When weights are used in this manner, it has a tendency to anchor you, right in the place you're at in life.

   

       First, what happens when we allow people or things to become weights in our life? The answer is: our movement becomes slowed or we cease to move along our desire pathway in life. When we are anchored, no matter how we think of moving forward, it will never happen because of the weights that are attached to us.

   

     On a different note, I would like to point out that weights can come in many different sizes. The bigger they are (problems) the more force you’ll have to used in order to destroy such a (weighty) relationship. The whole point in being able to pinpoint those that are weighing you down in life is to, liberate yourself from that point of restraint. When this is done, freedom is realized:

What are Weights?

·        Dream killers

·        Negative people

·        People that abuse you

·        People that speak down to you

     When you have a desire to move forward in life, then, you must understand that, this desire is yours and yours to protect solely.  There are people in this world, sometimes that are close to us, that will take your desires and annihilate them simply because they may not agree with it. Never allow dream killers to manifest nor keep attachments to you during your life. Dream killers are big anchors.

       

     Next, there are those that are simply negative. It’s hard enough to stay  consistent with what you desire to do and where you desire to go in life, but when you have someone in your life that badgers you constantly, …they can be considered a weight problem. You must understand this. The only reason that people are willing to speak (curse) in a negative way towards others, is because they are themselves negative. When you are a negative individual, one of your sole purposes in life is to condemn others. Negative people condemn others, because they themselves feel condemn. This is a major weight and negative people utilized this well.

       Onward, never settle for abuse. Abuse itself, is a massive weight. It ‘s massive because it has the ability to refract into so many different directions. Some of the ways that abuse can anchor you in life may deal with the physical, mental, emotional and even spiritual. Also, when this type of weight exist within your life for a long period of time, it can create self destruction in many different ways. Be careful.

       Finally, people that speak down on you is a weight that can easily be removed, but you have to be willing to lift it. I’ve seen this first hand. The tricky part about this weight is that, those that are anchoring you down,  may live in close proximity. This makes the anchor that much more difficult to remove. Why? Because many  have established relationships with people that may anchor them. This can easily cause you to see, only what you chose to see within the relationship. When this happens, you can easily overlook the very thing that is anchoring you down. 

So, always be cautious, move constantly (towards your goal) and stay free of the weights of this world. They are only in place to put strain on your life.....

Christopher Ty

http://www.christopher-ty.com/