Let’s take off the boxing gloves! “Unhelpful People” working in Chicago and Illinois State Government jobs should resign!
By Rev. Harold E. Bailey
President, Probation Challenge & the PCC Broadcast Network
Over my many years of wrestling with our community youth, last Friday, Probation Challenge celebrated 34-years of existence! And in all these many years, I’ve wept with offenders and their families regarding the child’s stupid uneducated offenses! On more than a few occasions, I’ve cried with victims whose loss can never be recovered! I’ve also wept bitterly over Chicago City Hall’s approach to crime – not having one working solution! … And, I’ve all but dried-up crying regarding our Illinois governmental attitude toward seeking constructive means to curb crime committed by youth.
There are many who sit in high places of government that know – just as I know, that there are in fact ways to help youth come from under the heavy burden of obeying a gang-chief – and thusly, return to family and to a sane way of living. Well, if they know these things, why is it that they have signed on to helping those across town rather than those folk right here in the community where they live? Indeed, there are more questions than there are answers!
Are constructive measures hard? Of course not! The way of the transgressor is terribly difficult! Is it easy to do the right thing about everybody rather than some bodies of people? Well, it appears that some folk aspire to help themselves rather than the total masses of people. Some dwell on noting the fact that they are getting over on a certain body of folk – African-Americans and Hispanics. This is far from being equal and certainly not fair.
I encourage Blacks and Hispanics to investigate carefully those persons who are sleeping at the switch… and bring them home to awake from their slumber. What then should we do? Don’t vote for people who are about the dollars and not the lives and safety of the people in the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois. Search political records and make sure who, what and when, they have last helped to curb crime in your community or your neighborhood!
It’s time out for talking the talk and not walking the walk…as children are dying every day in Chicago… and not much of anything coming out of City Hall but budgets and proposals for spending more monies…and the taxpayers will have to bear the burden.
Time is out for foolish responses by city and state administrations after the community has suffered over and over because of weekend shootings at the hands of downright blatant killers and murders!
Many of the public seek to ask, if not beg, all non-helpful government workers, who are sitting on the seats of doing nothing regarding adequate solutions to crime and drugs. My advice to those non-helpful government workers:
1. Get up and earn your salary
2. Admit that you are non-helpful… and RESIGN! As an elected public servant, you were hired by the people to render help for the taxpayer… via solutions, and not to render solutions for your raise, along with other means of self advancement! We are tired! We are angry! And no one is getting over but the undertaker!
Rev. Harold E. Bailey is the President of Probation Challenge and the PCC Broadcast Network http://www.probationchallenge.org/
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