Last Friday, Christopher
Lane, a 22-year-old Australian here on a baseball scholarship, was shot and
killed while jogging in Duncan, Okla., population 23,000. He died where he
fell.
Police have three suspects,
two black and one white. The former said they were bored and decided to shoot
Lane for “the fun of it.”
As Lane was white and the
shooter black, racism has surfaced as a motive. Thursday came reports that
killing a white man may have been an initiation rite for the black teens in
joining some offshoot of the Crips or Bloods.
What happened in Oklahoma and
the reaction, or lack of reaction to it, tells us much about America in 2013,
not much of it good. Teenagers who can shoot and
kill a man out of summertime boredom are moral barbarians, dead souls.
But who created these
monsters? Where did they come from?
Surely one explanation lies in the fact that the old conscience-forming and
character-forming institutions – home, church, school and a moral and healthy
culture fortifying basic truths – have collapsed. And the community hardest hit
is Black America.
If we go back to the end of
World War II, 90 percent of black families consisted of a mother and father and
children raised and disciplined by their parents. The churches to which these
families went on Sundays were stronger. Black schools may have been largely
segregated, but they were also the transmission belts of patriotism and
traditional values rooted in biblical truths and a Christian faith.....To Read More.....
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