Why Am I Not Surprised? Sickened, But Not Surprised.

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Why Is Anyone Surprised? A horrible thing happened recently in Chicago when four young blacks kidnapped a special needs boy, held him prisoner for two days, and tortured him Live on Facebook. Their behavior was sick and depraved. It was unconscionable and inexcusable. But it does not surprise me. I was not surprised at all to learn that these young people from Chicago - the most violent city in America - had committed this horrific act. They are simply behaving the way their parents and community have taught them to behave. Young people growing up socio-economically disadvantaged, too often born to single mothers who themselves were raised in poverty as dependents of the welfare system, have grown up with no self-respect and no respect for others. They believe everything should be solved using violence to assert their ability to intimidate us into giving them whatever it is we have that they want. They are mired in ignorance, despise education, and cannot think of any other way to deal with life other than to harm and kill those who they perceive to be weaker than themselves, for monetary gain or, as in the case of the Chicago Four, for sport. They bring this attitude into the schools, and into their everyday interactions with most of the people they meet. At home, there may be an adult who gave birth to them, but there is no parent, no one who knows what is right from what is wrong. These children are basically growing up feral, living on the streets and surviving by their animal instincts – remorseless and cruel. Until we, as a society, face the truth that the Great Society and Welfare State established in the 1960s had led to the disintegration of the family in our nation’s low income inner city neighborhoods by recusing parents of their responsibility for their own children, we will never begin to address this problem. How would you fix a system that allows "parents" to abdicate responsibility for their children because they know the government will take care of the children for them when the result is teens and twenty-somethings who think there is nothing wrong with kidnapping and torturing a special needs child, and are astounded that anyone is upset they did it?