What is it exactly that the black lives matter people want anyway?
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The Scouts Law worth repeating and always timely in life.

A Scout is:
Trustworthy
Loyal
Helpful
Friendly
Courteous
Kind
Obedient
Cheerful
Thrifty
Brave
Clean
Reverent.

Go ahead, tell me what's wrong with that.

Still after 70 years I remember The Boy Scouts Motto:
On my honor I will do my best do my duty to God and my Country.

What not PC enough ?? pffft

Scouting develops personal responsibility in the youth and allows them to learn and grow in a nurturing environment.

Currently most inner city youth have their responsibilities set by their absent parents, TV and the web. In other words, they have no structure or direction and follow whatever charlatans get their attention.

I agree with the analogy regarding black kids in good families compared to white kids in bad families.

When you add peer pressure (from other kids making bad choices)to the basic problems most kids are faced with, you have the problem compounded.

When families lose track of what really is important they end up having to pick up the pieces after the damage has been done.

I have said for years if you give us 100 kids, 98 will come out better for it.I remember things to this day I learned as the longest tenured Tenderfoot in scouting.

The other great thing about scouting (and other positive organizations) is that these kids will get a better peer group in school and out of school. Plus they may be able to defeat the Zombie Apocalypse.

:uhuh:

You are in your 80s? Hahaha j/k

Exactly correct. This is an organization whose purpose for existance, is to make childhood a little more wholesome and fun, and to give kids the "blue print" they need to be caring, generous, productive, successful, happy adults. And how does the left treat the scouts? Does it thank the scouts for all they good they do? Hell, no! Again, as usual, the left ignores what the scouts actually stand for, and paint them as hate-mongering bigots. Because if more people embraced the values instilled by the scouts, fewer people would be miserable and dependent, and therefore, fewer people would vote Democrat. The left has its own blue priunt for dealing with such groups - paint them as hatemongers.

Sounds like our urban gangs are turning into Mexican Cartels.

Just #^&#^&#^&#^&ing disgusting.
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3 and 1/2 years away until 80, John, no joke, I was a Cub Scout at age 7.

So kind of you to remind me. :grins:

Looks like you may be slipping yourself, you forgot to post
that freeeking dementia time clock already. LOL :btu:

BTW John, another Boy Scout rule for you to think about
as YOU grow older, "Be Prepared". :hihi:

When I was a kid, I did cub scouts up until Weblos. For some reason, all my friends declined to continue in Boy Scouts.

When I was in elemantary school, we might have had 2 or 3 classrooms for each grade. And I bet each classroom, within each grade, had a den or pack or whatever the smaller unit was. But there were always a ton of kids at school in the uniform, because they'd go to one family's house right from school for the meeting.

In the town where I live now, which is a great town for kids to grow up in, it's FAR less popular. But fortunately it is still around. I hope all 3 of my boys love it.

As I get deeper and deeper into parenting, i am less and less interested in spending all my time getting them involved in traditional sports. If any of my kids wants to play travel baseball 6 days a week, i will support that, but I'm not bringing it up or suggesting it. I'd rather expose them to things that will provide lifelong benefits (scouting, karate), or at least expose them to sports (like tennis) that they can do forever.

John and TDF, I think you really nailed it by bringing up scouting. No one wants to hear that there is an almost sure-fired solution, but that solution involves discipline and work. Liberalism is based more on the philosophy of "if it feels good, do it, and don't expect me to face the consequences".

I wonder how many families that are heavily involved in scouting, are truly dysfunctional. Not nearly as much dysfunctionality as the average family, I am certain of that.

The other key thing about scouting is that it probably provides positive role models for these kids. Unfortunately the culture in a lot of these inner cities values athletes or rappers, that is the only way "out" to a lot of these kids and that's sad because its nearly impossible to make it in either one of those fields.
There is a lot of good work going on in these areas, but obviously not enough. For all the resources Obama wants to put into more free housing and more EBT cards and other handouts, why not invest in more programs (like scouting) or other boys and girls club types things that keeps these kids off the streets? why don't more of these black lives matter people put their energy towards things like that instead of showing their kids that police are to blame for all of their problems.

Because we as a society have failed. They have been told it is someone elses fault, there is no accountability anymore, especially by the BLM clowns. The" poor little kid was just turning his life around" Criminals are the victims, forced into that life. That is liberal logic right there.

What if I told you that black anger has been fueled by the music industry who's ceo's have heavily invested in privately owned prisons ?

More anger... More crime... More profits !

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HANDS UP!!!

Its all BS,the movement should be called Black Lies Matter.Their only agenda is to promote hatred among the black community towards whites and in particular white police officers.To the point that this group has called for killings of police and has success in this calling.

Domestic terrorist org as far as I'm concerned.

Have at it boys.

I fixed it for you.

A lot of it is about being good role models to kids - particularly the bigger kids to the younger kids, and showing the kids how a little training and doing can be great tools in life. This is particularly beneficial to the kids with single / divorced parents. I was one of those kids and that and (believe it or not) a good environment with other good kids helped me a lot.


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See - I thought you were just failing a little at math but rounding up (slightly) is acceptable :tooth:

Hip Hop and the music industry, bastions of right wingers.

Fishing has come to an end here and most have pulled their boats....small whale spotted just of the shore feeding causing traffic jam on the roadway....lot of whales reported on the northwest corner of the bank.....:)

See......you get it man.

Though you did spell marijuana wrong.:laughs::smokin:

Sheeeeeet man. No weed for me!
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