“35 million households have guns and one-third store them loaded or unlocked, we must remind parents that this is dangerous and deadly.”

These were the words of the first lady Hillary Clinton. The words were spoken 25 years ago during an appearance on CNN with Larry King.

Mrs. Clinton was also the host of a Mother’s Day ceremony at the White House to honor mothers and families to highlight the importance of keeping children safe from guns.

Mrs. Clinton issued a Mother’s Day pledge that she hoped all parents would follow.

The pledge read, “I will not give my child unsupervised access to a firearm. I will not allow my child to play in a home where guns are improperly stored. If I own a gun, I will unload it, lock it up, and store the ammunition separately and securely. I will urge others, including my community leaders and political leaders, to do everything in their power to protect our children from guns.”

Twenty-five years later, the First Lady’s pledge has gone unheeded. Three people are dead after a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School a Madison, Wisconsin, campus for grades through K-12.

A 15-year-old student shot and killed a teacher and two other children. A teacher and three others have non-life-threatening injuries. The only difference between this mass shooting and the others is that the shooter is female and she is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

A courageous second grader called 911 for help. My question again is, “When is enough enough?”

In Washington, DC one day later in SW DC on Galveston Street, a mother left a friend to watch her two children while she ran errands. The friend had a loaded gun and the 3-year-old brother accidentally shot his 5-year-old sister. She is fighting for her life.

The guns in the household have doubled with one in the car!

I have spent 6 decades working with youth gangs and at-risk children in DC, from Mt. Pleasant, U Street Corridor, Potomac Gardens, Barry Farms, and Simple City. In Alexandria, Va. schools, Charles Houston Rec Center, and Suitland, Maryland’s, Homer Avenue.

Many times, fingers are pointed at our children. The biggest problems are the non-leadership in their home, school, and peer pressure. Add unsupervised computer games, cell phones, and television news.

Our schools have become slippery slopes, “The teachers are scared of the principal, the principal is scared of the superintendent, the superintendent is scared of the parents, the parents are scared of the children, and the children ain’t scared of nobody.” It sounds like it might be possible but it is not quite true, teachers are underpaid and underappreciated and we are getting what we pay for. A high school graduate who can barely read above the third-grade level.

Teachers should be paid for their performance and not their longevity. A public school student costs $18.000, and a teacher’s salary is $63,000-$90,000. The children and the teacher are coming up short.

Jack Ciattarelli is the President of the NJ teachers’ union, his salary, is $752, 000 a year! Meanwhile, the average salary for a NJ public school teacher is $76,000. That same teacher pays $1400 in dues to help pay the union president’s salary. Where is the equality-who is zooming who?

New Jersey must be leading the country in test scores, reading, writing, and arithmetic. This sounds like a Mob Job!

We must never forget our children did not come out of their mother’s womb with an AK47, selling drugs, wearing a KKK Robe, and using the N and MF words. This is all learned behavior. They are watching us.

Black youth are not aware their ancestors were Kings and Queens and not hoodlums and thugs.

The question is, who sabotages teaching Black History–Ken Burns & PBS-Gov. Youngkin & DeSantis!

What makes it worse, CNN Commentator Van Jones says Trump is smarter than all of us. Does this mean money makes you smart or being elected President of the United States after 34 felony convictions!

Billionaire and owner of the Washington Post Jeff Bezos gave Jones and CEO of the World Kitchen Jose Andres, one-100 million dollars each for their favorite charities.

It looks like Van Jones thinks 100 million dollars gives him the right to sound stupid and get away with it.

I have broken bread and interviewed some of the greatest politicians of the 20th and 21st Centuries, but all of them were not smart, shrew maybe but definitely not smart.

The First Lady’s 1999 interview on CNN with Larry King was outstanding and, thought-provoking.

Is that the reason so much corruption is going on in politics “Money Honey!” I predicted in 2010 after The Supreme Court passed a no-cash limit for political run campaigns, the poor would remain poor for a long, long time in America.

“40 Acres and a Mule was dead, an Even Playing Field was never to be, Biden made a promise to the Black Farmers to help save their land was never kept, Colin Kaepernick came close in the NFL, but close only counts in horseshoes. For blacks in America, it is back to Square One.

NFL great Jim Brown ran across the aisle without a football and got 50 million dollars from Trump! Marvin Gaye and Teddy Pendergrass gave us “What’s Going On and Wake Up Everybody” and we still missed the boat thanks to a Crabs in the Barrel mentality.

Jose Andres looks like he is feeding people around the World, it is hard to tell whether Van Jones has reached out to any Black Farmers. You can bet one thing he will not be a Secret Santa in our community.

These are some of the politicians who helped me cross the aisle to make “Children First.” There was only one fraud among them.

Jeff Bezos and Van Jones, “I love you, my brother. Take this one-100 million and go help your people.”

I want to give Hillary Clinton the last word. She was the “FIRST” First Lady to address violence in our communities across America when she said, “Enough is Enough.”

She was talking about the murder wave sweeping Washington, DC, and the entire nation. If I had not known better, I would have sworn the First Lady had been listening to my radio talk shows, Inside Sports on WPFW or at W-U-S-T Radio.

Mrs. Clinton said, and I quote, “To think that here, at the seat of Government and just blocks from where we sit, children are shot in driveby shootings. People cannot venture out of their homes, and live behind 10 deadbolts on their doors. It’s an outrage.” As I have said on Inside Sports, she laid the blame at the door of the local Government, police departments, parents, and last but not least, the media.

The First Lady said, “The media has played a role in glorifying and giving too much credence, to the kind of overly impulsive and aggressive solving of our problems. And there is too much on television that our children watch for too many hours, which seems to suggest that violence is the answer.

Mrs. Clinton also said, “The inability of local governments to deal with crime has cut deeply into the rights of all Americans. We have undermined the basic freedom and right to liberty of literally millions of people by refusing or failing to deal with the violence that stalks our cities. I just cannot stand it anymore. I cannot bear to pick up another newspaper and read another baby shot.”

She was referring to four-year-old Launise Smith who was funeralized after being hit by a bullet fired into a crowd at a pickup neighborhood football game at Weatherless Elementary School in SE DC (25 years later gun violence raises its ugly head in SW DC a three-year-old shoots his 5-year-old sister in the chest).

After finishing work on President Clinton’s Health Care Plan, the First Lady is seriously considering turning her attention to an anti-crime initiative. I hope and pray that the President’s plan passes swiftly through Congress. I know that is wishful thinking on my part (it was).

She closed, “We cannot afford another year or even one more day of indecisiveness and a lack of leadership from local politicians.” (25 years later the beat goes on).

If there is a formula to save our children and our cities, the First Lady must find a way to expedite the President’s Health Care Plan successfully despite the obstacles ahead:

I applaud the First Lady’s strong words and stand on a problem that has paralyzed certain sections of our city. The inept, incompetent, and irresponsible actions of so-called leadership, enough is enough.

Washington, DC was recently voted “The Worst Run City in America.” It did not help, that the city had 4 different Police Chiefs during Mayor Muriel Bowser’s tour of duty.

It is so refreshing to see and hear someone stand up like a man, even if that someone happens to be–our First Lady.

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