Saving The African American Community From Violence

By Kenneth Moore

Kenneth N. Moore is a 60 yrs. old single father of five grown children and two grandkids. Kenneth spent his first 20 years as a young kid and adult growing up in Chicago in the Government Public Housing in Altgeld Gardens his first seven years of life with his single divorced mother and four siblin

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crown Books NYC
• Release date: Oct 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781958869307

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Saving the African American Community from Violence

Growing Up Tough in Chicago

(My life’s story and personal experiences growing up tough in Chicago)

Kenneth Nathan Moore

Copyright © 2022 Kenneth Nathan Moore.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author and publisher, except by reviewers, who may quote brief passages in a review.

ISBN: 978-1-958869-31-4 (Paperback Edition)

ISBN: 978-1-958869-32-1 (Hardcover Edition)

ISBN: 978-1-958869-30-7 (E-book Edition)

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Contents

Introduction

Part I: Where are we now, and where are we going?

Part II: Ancestry searches and discoveries & where did we derive from in the other land of Africa. And dealing with crime every day.

Chapter 1: Twenty-five-year plan Godly principles at home and school

Chapter 2: My life experiences

Chapter 3: We came from Africa as descendants of slaves and kings

Chapter 4: Young African American males behavioral patterns

Chapter 5: African American women, our heroes in the community

Chapter 6: Finances of the average African American How much do our children know about Dow, Amex, NYSE, 401(k)/bonds?

Chapter 7: Our community concerns, our social norms and insecurities

Chapter 8: Twenty-five-year plan I, II, III IV

Chapter 9: Education, education, education is the key to our success

Chapter 10: How I feel I can make a difference in America through some of my life experiences, incidents, and examples

Our African American music contribution to America ever since our arrival in this country has been very influential to the world.

African American statistics from the US Census Bureau

African American Statistic Percentages Of Health And Violence

African American stories in the news that does affect us all!

A self-appointed author, I am a man who grew up on the South Side of Chicago and who now lives in the suburbs and wants to help orchestrate change in some of my fellow African American males’ mind-sets that are sometimes limited, immature, and seems to possess a cycle of underachievement in America. This book is a new beginning for our African American people, starting with all our youth, because in our culture, our women have held the black families together as strong as the weave in a fabric. This book is dedicated to my mother and all our women who have for centuries have helped hold the bond for us all. This was when our men were either in bondage, killed, or suffered humiliation and ended up leaving their families, with the mother left to teach and raise the family.

This book is to help the African American culture, one that has a 12 percent population in America, but has a very high national annual violent death rate, a high percentage of high school dropouts, a very low college education graduation rate, and as well as a very high African American male incarceration rate. These are the direct results of our annihilation by some of our own people here in America. This book should be used as a tool to help all families no matter their race or creed to overcome all adversities be it economics, drugs, or violence.

I pray and thank God for his strengths he continually bestows upon our nation, the United States of America. Our African American culture here in the States is one of many ethnic cultures that arrived in here that makes America what it really is, and it will continue to become a big melting pot that welcomes and respects everyone’s differences. May God bless America.

Should you even read this book?

Saving the African American Community from Violence

I pray that this book is taken in and received in the right context by African Americans, to take from it what you can use and need, to make the necessary changes in your life so we all as a race of people can continue to succeed and become wealthy, not just in monetary sense, but also learn to possess a wealth of knowledge.

This book isn’t written to exclude any other race of people or create discord or provide a scholarly view, but to better understand ourselves as a people from a man who was born in a Cook County hospital and brought home by a single parent to a ghetto in a federal housing project called Altgeld Gardens and later in early childhood in the Englewood community, during the white flight. This is for my people so we can become better neighbors and create harmony and become more prosperous for our nation and the world.

Just because you’re not an African American doesn’t mean you can’t read my book, Saving the African American Community from Violence, but if any of these questions posed below ring any truths to you or any similar experiences, whether it be personal or someone you know—family or close friends, then I think this is a book you should not only read, but keep a copy in your home for your families’ future generations.

Have you or anyone close to you ever been a victim of theft or violence by another African American in your community or anywhere else?

Do you have anyone in your family that has been incarcerated or on parole? If so, please read my book.

Have you ever been in a situation where you were either intimidated by your fellow African American brother or sister or just simply embarrassed by their behavior?

How many wealthy African Americans do you personally know that aren’t in the entertainment business or illegal pharmaceutical business? If it’s less than two, you should definitely read this book.

If you’re thirty-five years old or older and still don’t own your home, please read this book.

If you don’t know what the acronym IRA or 401(k) means, you should definitely be reading this book.

If you’re forty years old and don’t have a retirement pension, annuities with at least $40,000 bearing interest, you need to get on board and read this book.

If 70 percent of your family members who have attended school since the year 1985 haven’t enrolled into college and graduated, you definitely need to read this book.

If you think it is OK in this day and age to have children without being educated and married first, you definitely need to read this book.

If you haven’t prayed to your god in the last thirty-six hours, this book is definitely for you.

Introduction

My twenty-five-year plan is to help change the way our youth think to better prepare for their future. I expect us not only to live Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, but also to change and build upon President Barack Obama’s vision for change and have a better America and stronger people to help lift America’s standards. I hope this will take less than a generation because we will want to begin with the young and also help those already in straits to move forward and receive the knowledge to become educated to gain financial assets and prosper.

This book will identify issues with some of our African American communities across America, especially our African American youth and adult males, who are shooting and killing one another every day. I will write about how government policies, cultural folklore, taboos, stereotypes of everyday blue-collar workers, and even middle class, who sometimes suffer in their lifestyles from some of the same plights of violence and drugs. I will write about how African Americans have made great contribution in America and great strides in our communities. I will show how some of our own government covert policies through the turn of the century from the late 1800s through 1990s on through our new millennium that we’re in, has had an adverse effect on African American growth and lack thereof, with the evolution of our youth’s social culture, with slave labor in our history versus culture differences now with the lack of education pursuit of our black youth that deal with the violence in Chicago, Illinois, and America as a whole.

I will write about my twenty-five-year plan, breaking the cycle of negativity in a generation of our people. I will bring forward my thoughts of that which were printed in a city newspaper from June 2009 through July 2010 to show example after example of the misery our people sometimes face, and I will deliver chapter after chapter full scenarios, examples, or just minor situations that have occurred as personal life experiences or from someone I personally know or have interviewed and talked to regarding the views of the parallels of our society.

We all know that a big part of the ills and violence that affects our city’s society as a whole are committed by gangs, but not exclusively, and it all must be stopped. Our African American innocent children’s lives are at stake.

My plans are to go one step further by creating a nonprofitable organization to help see some of my ambitions by helping our race become more relevant in our approach and endeavors. I plan on helping to inspire the African American children to become more focused in receiving their education and to become land and property owners, starting in their own neighborhoods. Our African American people need to amass wealth and not just to become hood rich at best.

It seems to me that some of our people can do just as well as other ethnic groups, but it seems that we fall short in achieving some of the same success. It just seems to me our group of people goes through the struggles and economic downturns much more than most.

We should be righting our wrongs and misfortunes we never really achieved. I’m not only hoping to inspire, but to start a movement of positive productivity in our communities all over America.

As I’ve mentioned in this book before, my interest and concerns are that of my African American people for whom I’m writing this book, to help make a difference on how the way our people, especially on how our children behave, to turn the tides of the way of how we go about doing things and to have accomplishments to yield results to benefit our families in education, and to stop the violence we commit against one another.

I’ve also noticed that more often than not, there are other people that are of non-African American descent that own and operate business not only in our communities but other communities as well. The problem that I’m experiencing with this observation is this: where are our share of restaurants, stores, businesses, and corporations? How many skyscrapers do we own, major league baseball teams, National Football League teams, national basketball teams, hotel chains, vehicle manufacturing corporations, airline corporations, railroad corporation, shipbuilding corporations? Why is that?

It is because we haven’t amassed wealth or property from years past, and because in many cases, these companies were established in the nineteenth century and that our people were only asked to help build these conglomerates as they were slave laborers.

African Americans didn’t receive any of the landgrab during the nineteenth century or the forty acres and a mule that were promised to some slaves right after the Civil War by General William T. Sherman. He removed many of the slave owners from their lands that stayed behind. These slave owners who owned 20 more slaves were allowed a reprieve of not having to fight in the Civil War, yet they all supported there rebels cause. Many slave owners who fled their land and the slaves who remained behind and who became freed after the war and who had worked on these plantations along with their ancestors for centuries. They were told they would have the right to vote and become landowners of forty acres and maybe given a mule.

We have had many African American men become legislators in Washington, DC, and during the Reconstruction period, Frederick Douglass continued to fight for the ex-slaves and their freedoms. He continued this struggle for the betterment of African people’s lives, to answer our ancestors’ plights, our ancestors who became American citizens through naturalization—being born in the states that were held in bondage as well as the slave generation before them.

Frederick Douglass is one confidant who advised Abraham Lincoln to have the black man enlist in the Union Army as well as entice the Southern black men to flee and join the Union Army to fight for their freedoms until his death at the age of seventy-seven in the late nineteenth century. During the Reconstruction period, after Abe Lincoln’s death, we all know the rest of that story of how a nation of freed slaves were at the mercy of America and its Southern slave owners who lost the Civil War.

The freed slaves had nothing in many cases and became sharecroppers and continued to farm the land or pick cotton. Our African American ancestors were cheated out of wages earned.

I hope this can be done by most of the African Americans in this country and other ethnic people who are sensitive to our plight of violence that our people commit every year in our communities. I feel that if we get our young African males working and have them start building their own enterprises, we can reinstitute the hard work ethics of our people from the past and accomplish much more than just finances but also self-respect and dignity and stop this unnecessary violence in our communities, like Englewood and other trouble neighborhoods across America.

I will be taking a consensus to find out if African Americans think of this subject of creating funds for the nonprofit to be redistributed to each other for everyone to give their own help, forty acres and a mule, if they will. I think it is our inability to think in the mind-set of wanting to own a business in the first place, and when we do have the ones that can and do, we oftentimes run into problems of not having enough capital, money, and credit to secure monies to run a business. And when we do have the people with the enthusiasm to actually want to run a business, they don’t know how to run a business successfully, and they sometimes run into other dilemmas like lack of marketing success that also ultimately results into failure of running a business.

It’s not only happening in the city of Chicago but other major cities throughout the United States, but other countries as well. I’ve been fortunate to visit places like London, England, and Paris, France, recently. And when I was there, I didn’t see any African Americans running any stores there either. There are some African brothers and sisters from the native land of Africa running some operations but not very many, at least when I was there a few years back, at least the places I visited when I was there last.

I’m not going to make apologies for what my intentions are, and that is to try and reverse the negative trends and behaviors of many of my fellow African men young and old. I know if we provide work and business for people to conduct on a routine basis, many of the unnecessary bullshit will get eliminated. It will be extremely hard for people to continue to try and find energy and motivation to go out and hustle and commit crimes on the side if you get up and go to work at 5:00 a.m. every day, then get home in the evening. I believe this would make anyone tired enough that they would be ready to do more constructive things with their lives and not get involved with gangs and side hustles like selling drugs. I believe a lot of the violence would cease.

I know that if enough funds are generated, we can create lines of people, like the ones we see on television where people try to receive Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) help. If we can help people get in lines to register to become self-employed, they wouldn’t have to depend upon someone else to employ them.

These ideas would be done through vouchers/prepaid credit cards for assistance to get people to start up their prospective businesses. This will be done with the help of a team of three people: a lawyer, accountant, and a day-to-day person to successfully help the individual run his or her new company.

I’m also looking into new proposed legislation to allow tax breaks for first-time entrepreneurs, especially in the urban metropolitan areas throughout the United States to help revitalize economically depressed areas. I would target businesses and properties that are closed and boarded up that could be reopened by remodeling and create more revenue for Chicago and other major towns and cities in America that could definitely benefit with the same kind of dilapidated properties being restored, with construction and drywall workers bidding on jobs of restoration, helping to create more jobs.

I know that our economy is picking up, and the slow recovery from the recession will be a brand-new start for us African Americans if we apply ourselves and resume where we left off in pursuing the American dream and retrieve what inheritably belongs to us and not allow any other rising group or race of people from other countries to buy up all the land and property in our nation we had helped to build.

Our Hispanic brothers & sisters are a prime example of how to work together and provided unity. There are many issues as well that their race has to deal with too like with illegal immigrating, drugs,gangs in their communities. They have fast approached and have grown in population numbers past the African Americans in the metropolitan areas reporting to the U.S Census Bureau.

We must discontinue this self-defeatist attitude that some our children and young men portray against one another, if we’re going to change our position.

This plan would only be successful if I can get to open up closed businesses that are boarded up at economic discount rates from the cities that these properties exist. I also believe if we could get millions of African Americans to donate enough money, we could all give ourselves the equivalent of forty acres through finances to make good and create our own jobs through created jobs for our African Americans, especially young men.

I feel that to be able to generate more commerce in the violence-plagued communities, we can actually create more businesses through Facebook and word-of-mouth accountability and participation along with Internet communications. We can have an export business by traveling to other countries in Europe and Africa as well as in China to drum up more businesses in addition to what is here in the United States, across cities to various states. This is my dream and my plan. I hope to see it created and see that it develops into something positive and help stop the violence committed by African Americans across America in our communities.

In accomplishing many of these ideals, I will also be helping to eliminate the crab-in-the-barrel syndrome that a lot of our people possess. This will be achieved because in order for a person to be given finances through bank prepaid credit cards and vouchers to start their business, one condition is that they must help their fellow African brother or sister gain employment by personally giving them a job to help them make it as well