“In Defense of Mayor Rahm Emanuel on the Issue of Crime in the Black Community”
Monday, June 6, 2016
Similar to other politicians in his “shoes,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel is a coward! His biggest opponent on the issue of crime in the black community is truth, which he is fearful of facing.
“Mr. Mayor,” being polite, one irate Black homeowner whose home had recently been burglarized posed the question, “what are you doing about crime in our community?” If Mayor Emanuel had any semblance of “backbone,” and was not afraid of the truth, he would answer “Nothing!” and I for one would applaud his response.
Nothing? Yes, nothing! I didn’t bite my tongue, and neither should the mayor. He should tell the Black community the truth. No edict issued from City Hall is going to stop, deter, or reduce the rate of crime in the Black community simply because crime is not a “political problem” that can be effectively harnessed by politicians, which the mayor is. Crime is a spiritual problem, that which the Black community must understand and face head-on. It too, Like Mayor Emanuel, must face the truth.
Because crime is a spiritual problem and not a political one, the solution, if there is to be one, must come from the Synagogue, Church, Mosque, Temple, or any place wherein the true worship of G-d is practiced. Crime, like cancer, will continue to exist epidemically until the cause is acknowledged (not found) and pushed against, hard! What then is the cause of crime?
Crime is sin, the cause of which is an unmindfulness of, and disobedience to G_d and the main reason why crime can not and will not be brought under control politically. Long before there was the “political” State of Illinois, the city of Chicago and the Black community therein, and long before there were man-made laws that gave (and perhaps should not have) civic names to man’s transgressions, there was what G-d called sin: “Thou shalt not..,,” and He listed those things marked man’s transgressions if violated. Thus, it behooves the Black community to call crime by the name given to it by G-d, namely, sin. It should be attacked as such, not with incessant demands on City Hall and a beleaguered mayor, but on its Synagogue, Church, Mosque, Temple, and like the Jews to whom Jesus spoke, who claimed to have been “Children of Abraham.” The Black community claims now to be the “children of G-d,” and give “lip service” to His glory in congregation on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but whose hearts are far from Him!
This essay is not intended to remove the “hook” entirely from Mayor Emanuel’s mouth, freeing him from all responsibility to make the streets in the Black community more safe, for his treatment of the Black community, much too often, has betrayed the trust that the votes for him were meant to secure–the scandalous cover ups of police shootings caught on video, which are glaring examples of the mayor’s inexcusable culpability and inept administrating. Yet, the cause of crime that pot marks the Black community and the failure to devise a solution thereto are not responsibilities that can rightly be thrust upon Mayor Emanuel. The blame and responsibility are more fittingly on the backs of those spiritual leaders of the Black community who themselves, being victims of secular thinking, refer to sin not as sin but as its secular name: crime. How then can they possibly direct and guide their flock back to the spiritual path of G-d consciousness, the best answer to the Black community’s cry for a solution to “crime?” For, it was not Solomon who instructed humankind after having experienced and observed all that the secular world has to offer? What did he say? “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter; Fear G-d, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” (Eccl.,12:13) Bring the Black community back to the realization of Solomon’s words, and crime in the Black community will become a ‘thing of the past.”
Thus, it is that I say unto all who claim to be servants of the Most High, the One, True G-d, work and strive with might and main to bring back the Black community’s lost sense of G-d consciousness. Let it be heard and lived again, “G-d don’t like ugly.” In particular, instill in the young a fear of G-d, or perhaps more palatable to youngsters who question why does one have to “fear” G-d, a mindfulness of G-d, for within the reinstitution of this fear or mindfulness of G-d lies the solution to crime in the Black community, not in City Hall.
You can thank me later, Mr Mayor!
Joseph R. Hurst #C-15434
P O Box- 1200
Dixon, IL 61021
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