AMERICA'S IMPENDING DILEMMA OR CHAOS: Indiscipline School Shootings, Racism, Black Wall Street Massacre

by Ret. Det. Selbourne Reid

Overview

America is currently infused with a demoniac indiscipline. The Bible which was the main stanchion of America's success has been removed from the school. Its replacement is Godlessness, Systemic racism, Indiscipline, and prejudice. The factors which substantiated this argument are engrained in the historical records of the work of the social reformers of 1807-1859 and 1899-1959. These were people of different ethnic backgrounds, with an interdenominational religious flare. Their work was influential in the supreme court's decisions in Plessy VS Ferguson and Ferguson Vs Board of Education which helped to eliminate segregation in school and in certain public places.


Gummer Myrdal in 'American Dilemma' identified and produced evidence which proved that Afro American soldiers who fought alongside their white counter parts in the wars for America were treated disrespectfully at home. Ralph Bunche, the distinguished Afro American representative to the United Nations, successfully, negotiated peace in the Middle East. He was internationally acclaimed and the recipient of numerous accolades. Yet on his retirement he was subjected to systemic racism and was denied purchasing a home in a certain middle- income community in New York.


Historical incidents such as Black Wall Street Massacre, Martin L King's assassination. George Floyd's incident and the 'conduits from school to prison policies as exemplified by the "The Zero Tolerance policy in public schools, are facts which support systemic racism. The lack of respect for good discipline in the society. The effects of unpreparedness for pandemic disasters on the population. The uncertainty of the conduct of future political elections. Disregard for the Bible and the epidemic of rampant school shooting in America are additional supporting facts. Soon, when these factors all function simultaneously or in tandem, there will be chaos and disaster.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185827109
Publisher:	Xulon Press
Publication date:	01/31/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

The author of this book Selbourne Reid is a retired Detective Inspector of Police from the Jamaica Constabulary Force. Selbourne observed the need to address the plight of children who were getting themselves in trouble with the law. He observed that most of the young people who were getting themselves in trouble with the law were from Inner city communities and that they needed better parenting. He after studying ‘Child evangelism’ sought and obtained permission from his supervisors to do and did voluntary social work in some of these inner cities in Jamaica for many years.


Retiring from the Force he immigrated to the USA and was employed with the city of New York for about eight years. He was first employed as a Child Welfare and Foster Care Investigator and later as a Probation Officer. He relocated to Florida where he was first employed as a Child welfare and abuse investigator and later as a substitute (by choice) classroom schoolteacher.


With the avalanche of mass school shootings, Selbourne decided to investigate and ascertain some causes of these shootings. His investigations revealed -in his opinion- that Indiscipline, an Irrelevant ‘out of touch ‘Education policy, along with Historical and Systemic racism are the main causes of twenty years of mass school shootings in America, as well as other social ills in the American society. He also projected the view that the causes identified in the above paragraph have had such an effect on the nation, that they together have placed America in a state of an Impending Dilemma or Chaos.


Selbourne graduated from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, with a bachelor’s in Public Administration. He also attended the graduate teachers’ program (GTEP) at Nova South Eastern University Florida and Liberty University in the M.Th. program (‘I”)