I have to make an additional comment. An Afro American Catholic deacon shared in a local university magazine the plight of the Afro American woman.
I myself grew up in the inner city.
He was sharing that up to the 1960ās, the majority of these children grew up in homes with a mother and a father. Then with the rise of feminismā¦that is anti-man and says women donāt need men coupled with the promotion of guilt free sex, young Afro American girls decided in their early teens that they wanted to have a baby. So they did.
Polygamy in reverse. Women initiating childbirth without concern for the man.
And so the deacon notes the fatherless families, the boys having āhomiesā with their gangsā¦and the deplorable image they have of women, referring to them using profane names.
We could not afford middle and high school in the Catholic āvalleyā school. I worked in a low income health office on the other side of town. The parochial school was head by a sister whose congregation was in the valley and said we could take my son there and have affordable tuition. He decided in the end not to go to the affluent high school near us, but go to the new Catholic high school for inner city kids. They had to work in a set up cooperation, hospital, social center, utilities office one day a week to help support their tuition. They had to wear a tie to school, do not wear any clothing to attract gangs. If they could not hold a job, they could not go to school there.
My son balked in time, thinking he could not stay there. The two first years were rough because he didnāt think the school was preparing him for college. One day he was muggedā¦for dilly dallying around instead of going straight to school. He wanted to quit. He had a year to go for graduation. The black boys came up to him to console him.
I asked the boys if they chose to live up there. They said no, they were born there. I asked them if they were afraid to go to school. They said yes. I asked if they went to school even if they were afraid. They said yes. So I turned to my son and asked if he could try to do the same as graduation year would be next year. He went back and pulled the highest gpa. Then in senior year, we had a parents meeting as the gangs were closing in and the kids were afraid. It was so sad. In the end, the graduation ceremony was incredibly fantastic.
Up on the platform, the 55 kids, majority black, were all in smiles. The class ended up having such a loyal spirit to one another. All the kids were pointed out. Practically every single one was going to a 4 year college. But I saw the faces of the boys who had consoled my son. He said they ended up not doing as well, were involved in premarital sex, and one was having a baby. But another Afro American boy came up to get his diploma ā with his baby, and he was going on to college.
When people condone polygamy, it always appears to be something a person wants. There are families that are OKā¦but I think for most, polygamy is impoverishing, and Western countries at present are becoming more and more limited in supporting the consequences of such lifestyles. There is alot of abuse of the system.
Why would the mormons be non-violent when they had enemies trying to kill them? At that time, it was defend yourself or dieā¦such was the american frontier.
