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Originally posted by The Cushite
Black leaders' plan for future needs to address violence
By DeWAYNE WICKHAM
Gannett News Service
Of the 15,365 blacks murdered between 2000 and 2004 whose killers are known to law enforcement officials, 14,025 of them were killed by other blacks, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report...they are a small group of self-loathing blacks. These people are a malignant cancer eating away at the hopes and aspirations of the blacks whose lives they affect. And that impact is widespread...How do you build better schools and energize economic development in cities plagued by such murder rates?...How can you talk about a plan to uplift the black community and not have as one of its major components a frontal attack on the causes of the disproportionately high black murder rate?...But behind all of these causes are people - those who have little regard for the lives of others. What do we do about them?
Copyright 2006, USA TODAY International. Dist. by Tribune Media Services International
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The root causes of cancer in the biomedical field are mainly due to damaged DNA and the cell is unable to repair itself. Growth becomes unchecked and the cells become tumors blocking the energy and life from the rest of the organ, then the organism.
The traditional way to deal with cancer--tumors, if small enough, is to treat with cytotoxins--or chemotherapeutics--or poisons. If that does not work, then you treat with radiology--or nuclear attack--or radioactive compounds that annihilate the cell's ability to grow. Another method is to use the stem cell approach, taking the bone marrow, expose the white blood cells to a foreign object and allow the cells to do the clean up work. Yet, still another method is to kill off the bone marrow by radiation, and try to replenish it with new marrow which might kill any rapidly growing cell. The last ditch effort is surgery--or excising the tumor depending on the size and feasibility.
I say this to say that human relationships cannot be compared to tumorigenesis or carcinogenesis.
And the article fails to indicate the number of caucasians that have died at the hands of their own, too.
The only thing I agree with is at the beginning, this issue has to do with anger and resentment, which eventually turns into hate.
And the only way to deal with hate is to treat with love and that is where the church can have its uses.
But if one attends a church that dictates what is love, rather than what is scripture, then how can it ever deal with hatred?