Policing Revamped: Dads On Duty

I believe the children are our future. But in order to have a future we must protect our future. When issues arise, we have to address them firmly & fairly. This is the unbearable reality of hired school security. When it comes down to black students, they tend serve extra sides of firmness & go very light on the fairness. Authority personnel have always had less patience with our future leaders than they have with other groups of students. Kids will be kids & when a situation occurs, children in our community become adults, the white gloves come off & all training goes right of the window. Take a quick search on your favorite search engine & you will see example after example of discrimination & misconduct towards our community.

Resource Officer Ben Fields is a great example of what I’m referring to. He assaulted a female student back in 2015 because she refused to put her cellphone away. Now where on God’s green Earth is it ok to lay hands on a student? What could she have possibly said to a grown ass, highly trained adult to make him feel the need to flip her out of her seat? Incidents like these are not isolated events. This is why we need to police ourselves. To police something, you must adhere to the policies in place.

Policing means having the duty of maintaining law and order. This is not a conflicting definition. The conflicting comes into place when hired officials engage into bias activities & choose to patrol & control over serving & protecting. We must weed out individuals who could care less about correcting our kids & seem to get a kick out of abusing & terrorizing them. Imagine correcting youth without having to raise your voice or placing a hand on them. This is where the magic of Dads on Duty comes into play.

Ever heard of Black Girl Magic? Black kings have that same level of enchantment. If you viewed the video, you witnessed how dads showing they care changed the culture of 1 campus. None of them were highly trained officers equipped with weapons & pounds of protective gear. Neither of them have 100 hours of classroom knowledge & a piece of paper in attempt to validate that they now are experienced. Most life lessons that we hold near & dear to our hearts were learned in the trenches & not in a controlled environment. Real life experiences are the best coaches. Sometimes showing a child our scrapes & bruises we earned via real life scenarios hold more weight than showing a child a degree.

I would love to see more of these programs & groups being implemented into our youth’s curriculum to safely teach them discipline & respect. Theres no need to beat someone to submission in attempts to force them to do right when you can love them into submission & have them follow you to the path of positive growth & healthy life lesson. Our kids are our future & its up to us to shield them from dangers, especially if those dangers are initiated by folks who are paid protection.

🤎🖤Black Love ✊🏿 Black Power ☮️ Black Peace to my 🌡 Community.