Lazarus-like Leadership

In too many urban areas across this country, un-informed leadership have taken to patterning themselves after a certain beggar named Lazarus who laid at the gate of the rich man desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table.

These leaders amplify the role of corporations and politicians to reduce crime rates and gun deaths in our communities while diminishing the role of the actual community.

They scapegoat by creating a ‘bogeyman mythology’ laying fault at the politically or economically elite and deflect accountability from where it should fall first and that is in our homes.  Parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, coaches, counselors, mentors and preachers should be scrutinized first, even ahead of law enforcement.

It is putting ourselves in a subordinate role to suggest that companies and politicians are responsible ahead of families in creating safe communities.  This is a childish, immature and embarrassing assertion and shows a lack of accountability and true leadership.

While it may be easy to hold our hands out towards the golden palace, the real and sustainable changes requires families in the community to be accountable and intentional.  Change is made when ‘we’ decide we want it.

We have to divest from this Lazarus-type behavior and get up and get it for ourselves!  Stop thinking we are so unworthy and incapable that we seek to beg instead of build.

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