In order for the black community to find healing from the many divisions it has suffered lately, some within it have to take a good long hard look in the mirror. The father of the man killed in Milwaukee has done that and made this statement:

“I had to blame myself for a lot of things too because your hero is your dad and I played a very big part in my family’s role model for them. Being on the street, doing things of the street life: entertaining, drug dealing, and pimping, and they’re looking at their dad like ‘he’s doing all of these things,’” Patrick, the father of Syville Smith, said per Breitbart.com.

The elder Smith further delineated how he feels he has failed as a father, and unlike the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of the world, he took ownership for the problems he caused within his own family, the same kind reflected in some of the problems the African-American community faces:

“I got out of jail two months ago, but I’ve been going back and forth in jail, and they see those things, so I’d like to apologize to my kids because this is the role model they look up to. When they see the wrong role model, this is what they get.”

He called on the black community to change from within.

“I don’t know when we’re gonna start moving. I’ve gotta start with my kids, and we gotta change our ways to be better role models. And we gotta change ourselves. We’ve gotta talk to them, put some sense into them.”

Patrick Smith is right, even though those on the extreme left might disagree. A father’s involvement plays an important role in how his children grow up and view the world.

This nasty vicious cycle is going to have to stop, but it is going to have to start with people being better mothers and fathers and standing up and taking responsibility for their children.

Rioting and looting is only going to lead to more problems within the cycle as well. More officers going up through the academy will be mentored by older officers to have a distrust of the black person simply because of these actions.

In a nutshell, training young men to be better fathers and set better examples would be a better start and a far better solution to this problem.

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