I sit and I listen to the many people out there that are supposed to have the knowledge and the skills to stop the problem and all I hear is a simple excuse that it either is a bullying problem in the schools, or it is a teacher stepping out of bounds with a student, or it is the undue force by our officers who are using it without just cause. None of these answers, which are being given by those who get paid good money to feed us these excuses, will get to first base with this old man. I have been in this world for three score and four years and I have seen and heard it all. It is time that we stop paying these so-called experts the good money and start using good common sense to deal with these problems.
There have been bullies since the days of Jesus, and we have found the answers to bring them down. Take the bully and put him away for awhile and he might slowly turn into someone who can be a friend. Give the teacher in the schools more authority to deal with the problems, by taking off the chains that hold him back, and then back him up, and things can only be for the better. Stop getting on the backs of the officers out there that are doing thier jobs of protecting you, by taking off the streets those people who are breaking the law. Start backing up your police and give them praise instead of trying to run them down. And start doing what we should of been doing since the late sixties. You ask what is he talking about? Well here it is in a nutshell, and remember that this is my opinion and not that of anyone else including any of those groups out there that are waiting to pounce on us as soon as we are down. I get really mad when I think how we have just sat back and allowed the violence to begin and escalate.
How many times have you turned on the television and the first thing you hear is profanity? How many times have you turned it on to suddenly be looking at a scene of nudity? How many times have you just set there and watched the show without turning to another channel ? How many times have you allowed your youngsters to stay in the room and be witness to what is being shown on the screen? You don't have to answer, because it has happened several times and we just turn our heads instead of doing something about it. How about all the violence on the screen that those youngsters see every day and it gets planted in their minds as just being a fact of life ? . Wrong ,my friends, because that seed has been planted, and one day the seed will sprout into what we are seeing in the schools today. Another thing to look at is the type of music that these youngsters are listening to, while they have those muffs on their ears. Have you ever just listen to some of those songs that keep repeating the same line over and over again? While we are hearing that one line , they, with thier ear muffs, are listening to a whole new line of hipnotic messages that are slowing seeping into the brains of these fine youngsters who one day will use what they heard, to do violence such as what we are seeing now, in the shootings at school. It doesn't take anyone with any common sense to realize that we need to do something now.
Anyone who knows me will attest to the fact that I am not a radical person. I try to disect a problem to see all the factors that it is made up of. So while we know that it has to stop, we let the problem alone with the idea that it will work itself out. Wrong again my friends, because we have a war out there that needs to be brought to an abrupt end. We need to find that one answer to this problem and we need to delete it from it's very existant. Do we allow it to continue until the courts do something about it, or do we start doing it on our own? Those kids out there are our survival, because soon they will be the leaders in our nation, and we need to send them a message that we need them and that we want them to clean up thier acts now before it is too late.
As you read this article, you probaby get the impression that Uncle Ray doesn't like the young people because he is getting old, and they are staying young. Wrong again my friends, because Uncle Ray loves everyone and especially the yougsters , and I want to see them excell in life instead of throwing it away. That is why I stress the fact that I grew up in a time when nothing came easy and respect, honesty, loyalty, and love of your fellow man, was just part of life as I knew it. If I, as a writer of this column , am able to turn one life around through my writings, then I have reached my goal. If I am able to also get the generations of life to remember how it was in thier lives, so that they can use it as a means to make this world a better one, then I am happy with that. If I have ever written or said anything that has caused someone to be hurt, then I am sorry about that. Someone once said that to be able to please everyone is probaly impossible, but you do what you can and you go along with life. To live life without trying to make it better would be a waste, but to live life in it's fullest would be the best.
Until the next time when you invite me into your home by opening up this paper, I bid you God Bless. and I hope that I have made your day.
Ray "Uncle Ray" Day