Century-old problems shouldn’t be lain at Mayor Williams’ feet

Century-old problems shouldn’t be lain at Mayor Williams’ feet

In Bertram de Souza’s Aug. 14 column, Mayor Jay Williams was chastised for not ending the “cycle of violence” by chatting up the black community, as if so simple a cure was even remotely possible in the few years Williams was mayor.

Crime and violence in the black community are only a symptom of the real problem, which is beginning to affect all races in America. The absolute sure-fire way to condemn children to a life of poverty and most likely crime and violence is to bring them into this world without a father and/or the financial ability to care for that child.

For decades, we have had a federal government, with the consent of most states, that actually promoted this reprehensible scheme, under the guise of fairness, by giving compensation and benefits to people based on the amount of children they can give life to. This without any of the consequences that illegitimacy should bring to bear.

And don’t for a second think that this abomination was a mistate or an accident. For over a century the federal government’s main objective has been growth of government at any cost to the American people and society. Government has a vested interest in chaos, and what better way to bring millions of desperate clients into the system, whose only hope for the future is rescue by government program or prison, than to produce them?

Almost since the end of the Civil War, the very people in the federal government who claim to have black America’s best interests at heart have been enslaving blacks, not with chains, but with poverty and violence.

Frank Santolla, Lima