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A New Yr is upon us. It’s a time of reflection for many of us. I typically use this time to mirror on my deeds up to now yr. What did I try this served the individuals in the proper method? Have been my intentions, nevertheless good they might be, the proper ones? Or did they harm? What can I do to enhance myself and people round me? How can I proceed to strengthen my relationship with my Lord?
However this time of reflection at all times comes with a slap to the face should you’re a Chicagoan and work to serve the individuals like I do: the discharge of the homicide statistics for the previous yr. These tragic numbers make nationwide information to our disgrace and remind us of our shortcomings as people and neighbors. Each {one of the} murdered weren’t abstractions however particular person souls price saving and will have been saved. However we didn’t.
On this previous yr, till December 18, 564 Chicagoans misplaced their lives to homicide. That is 43 fewer victims when put next with 2023 and it’s considerably lower than in 2021 when 797 misplaced their lives. There are these like Mayor Brandon Johnson who would possibly attempt to promote this as progress, however how goes from 797 murders to 564 progress? Particularly when most of it was self-inflicted?
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After I first started my work in Chicago within the early 2000s, the homicide charge was monitoring within the 600s. After me and others started critical outreach efforts to youths and gang members, we bought the homicide charges to trace largely within the 400s for run of a number of years.
Then we had the rise of Black Lives Matter within the 2010s and the years after the loss of life of Michael Brown noticed an amazing rise within the homicide charge. It jumped from 425 murders in 2014 to 778 murders by 2016 — largely to the police pulling again as a result of anti-police sentiment of activists and politicians.
Then got here the death of George Floyd and the Defund the Police motion. In 2019, earlier than the world had even heard of Floyd’s identify there have been 498 murders. Then 772 in 2020, the yr he died, and 779 in 2021. We misplaced a whole lot of Black lives to the Defund the Police motion that was shaped within the identify of saving Black lives however, in actuality, solely put extra energy into the fingers of self-serving politicians. The tragedy right here is that not one politician or activist will face justice for his or her recklessness with Black lives.
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Earlier Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot supported this motion. Present Mayor Johnson supported this motion. Each declare to know the pursuits and lives of Blacks and so they declare to consider that Black lives matter. If that’s true, then why did not one of the Blacks, who misplaced their lives because the lawlessness elevated throughout the George Floyd aftermath, matter?
Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks throughout a science initiative occasion on the College of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 23, 2020. (REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski/File Photograph)
It issues to me and so many individuals in my group on the South Facet and in addition the West Facet, the place many of the 564 murders occurred. It issues as a result of so a lot of these murdered had been younger and within the prime of their lives. Ninety-one of the deceased had been between the ages of 0 and 19. 100 and seventy-seven had been between the ages of 20 and 29. 100 forty-five had been between ages 30 and 39. 4 hundred and twenty of them had been Black and 110 had been Latinos. 4 hundred ninety-four had been males. 5 hundred and 5 of them died by gunfire.
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The one benefit of George Floyd was that it uncovered the immorality of politicians and activists who exploit Black lives for affordable energy. Although we had been silly sufficient as Chicagoans to elect the worst mayor of my life, Johnson, into workplace, there are lots of of us from group leaders to involved residents that notice it’s all-hands-on-the-deck time now.
We all know that Black Lives Matter is a lie. We all know that our flesh pressers won’t repair our failing colleges — in any case, what do you count on from a Mayor who refuses to return a $150,000 donation given to him by a rapper dealing with homicide chargers? We all know that the hurt from Defund the Police motion nonetheless lingers. We all know that our youth develop up believing extra within the U.S. authorities than Jesus.
Other than that, we’re battling the disastrous results brought on by 60 years of liberalism. We’re combating the tradition of dependency that has been ingrained into so many households technology after technology. We’re combating a tradition of hopelessness.
We’re combating on so many fronts on this warfare, however we’re making progress. We’re saving lives. What we’re doing right here will not be magic. We use old school American rules: duty, accountability, advantage, and many others. We preach perception in Jesus and, if they’re of one other perception, we nonetheless encourage them. Most of all, we stress that one should have perception in themselves.
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These are the values that I at all times return to yearly after I hear the demoralizing final tally of murders for the previous yr. I say my prayer for all these victims’ households and I say a prayer for the energy that we are going to want for the approaching New Yr to proceed our work to reverse the political, cultural, and academic negatives in our tradition and convey that homicide charge all the way down to zero.
Name me a idiot if you’d like, and should you do, reply me this: who deserves to lose their lives to mindless violence that’s preventable?
