WHAT IF?

Yesterday was a wonderful memorial day for my wife, me, and our family. We watched our granddaughter walk across the stage and receive her Bachelor's Degree. Not a dry eye in the whole family. It was hard work for her. She's married, has a 16-month old daughter, and works just about full time. Talk about dedication. and she's not finished yet. She starts graduate school this fall.

Later, the family went to a near by restaurant to enjoy more tears of joy, and toasts to the new graduate. I guess to all in our family it meant so much for many reasons, one of which there was no silver spoon involved here, just hard work and dedication. We all volunteered for baby sitting duty, and helping out wherever we could.  Truly an "All In The Family" effort.

Yes, of course I'm going to make this part of a political blog. Did anyone think I wouldn't?

Listening to the Dean talk about the accomplishment of the students was so great to hear. There were graduates from many ethnic backgrounds; Asian-americans, Hispanic-Americans, and African-Americans, among others.  It was so heart warming to witness all these families taking pictures, hugging, tears of joy after the graduating ceremonies.

Of course I couldn't climb under the covers last night without watching the late night news when we arrived home. One of the news segments airing on TV was the new Attorney General, Loretta Lynch promising that she was opening an investigation of the Baltimore police department, and the Ferguson, Missouri police department.

She announced this on the day that 20,000 officers were paying tribute to the NYPD officer that was slain by an evil Black criminal thug on the streets of New York. Ms. Lynch never mentioned officer Ryan, along with four other officers killed in the line of duty by Black evil criminal thugs. For that matter, there was very, very little of the slain White officers by any news media outlets. She was more concerned that "there could be serious problems within the community concerning police brutality against Black citizens".

Then the news channel aired displays of the riots, looting, and the burning down of businesses in Baltimore and Ferguson. The TV showed evil Black criminal thugs smashing police cars, setting fires to businesses, firing weapons, and destroying everything in their wake. 

I'm sure there were no college graduates in these groups of rioters and looters. I'm sure none of these evil thug looters had college majors in education, social work, nursing, computer technology that I witnessedet in last night college graduates.

Then I started my crazy mind swirling that WHAT IF these rioters and looters were raised in families that provided them with LSD; Love, Support, and Discipline, as were the families of last night's graduates that I witnessed? 

WHAT IF family core values were stressed more to our youths instead of the easy availability of free entitlements? Why doesn't our core family values stress hard work, education, and believing in yourself with love and respect for others? 

Why is it more satisfying for some youths to destroy police cruisers, burn buildings, and destroy businesses than working hard at a decent job and getting a proper education to make themselves and their familes enjoy a better way of life?

Parents must be responsible for their children. Their main responsibility is to presenting them with a loving and purposeful environment, not one with free government handouts. Starting with parents all children deserve a loving hand up from their parents. They don't need hand outs from the government. Why are so many of these youths raised in an environment of entitlements instead of education and hard work?

What is so tragically sad is that some parents actually teach their children that the very same society that is providing their entitled freebies is their enemy. They destroy, rob, and burn businesses that pay taxes that go toward their freebie benefits. Many destroyed businesses in Ferguson and Baltimore are already stating that will relocate their business to other locations.
Did the looters think about this before they looted, destroyed, and burned down their stores?

It is the responsibility of the families in our society to put our youth on the right path of life. And it is the responsibility of Attorney General Loretta Lynch to stop making police departments the scape goats for all the problems of our youths.

And that's Politics with Pete for today...God bless our country...and our troops
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