Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
MAYHEM IN MICHIGAN
VALUES AND VALUES SYSTEMS
We must work as hard as ever to guard ourselves and dependents against unremitting, unacceptable, negative influences from media and from elsewhere. That means that we first must have in place certain values and the values system that will allow us to assess the intrinsic valuable worth to ourselves and our dependencies of various popular human behaviors for us and ours.
Without values and a value system that we internalize, exhibit, share, and require of dependents, we and our dependencies, can easily be caught up is social catastrophe!
I have in mind as I write this the young school girl in Warren, Michigan (near Detroit) who was stabbed to death by her class mate in school over some boy! To make matters worse, I read in the article that at least one of these two 17-year old black females who were caught up in this unseemly neo-domestic conflict, was an A-student, maybe they both were!
I attribute this conduct to lack of values, described above; but that's just me. What do you think?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/school-stabbing-danyna-gibson-tanaya-lewis-warren-suspect-murder-fitzgerald-high-school-a8539256.html%3famp