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Hillarysmygirl16


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22http://lifeinthehood.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/my-hood-lost-another-home-boy-two-weeks-ago-today/ 07 2009

Two weeks ago today a 17 year old home boy was shot to death and killed.  He was shot and left to die in a parking lot.

I mourn with his mother and I had to hold my baby girl in my arms while she mourned for her friend. I am sick of the dying and I want to know why the media has ignored this for so long.

I am sick of women losing  their children to violence in the streets. Young men are killing each other everyday. The result of that is always one in the ground and one in Prison for the rest of their life. Two lives ended with one bad decision.

The media says nothing while millions of young men are murdered every year.  When will America wake up.

His name was Jamal and he was shot to death and left to die in a parking lot. More then a dozen people saw him killed.  He was 17 years old and he was one of my daughter and neice's best friend.
He was killed because of where he lived.
He was planning on going to the military.



-- Edited by Hillarysmygirl16 on Friday 24th of July 2009 07:47:29 PM

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"He was killed because of where he lived."

And there have been (and, sadly, will be) so many others. One of my friends used to live in a neighborhood on Detroit's west side where a 7-year-old girl got shot and killed, supposedly over a $40 radio. But really, she was killed because of where she lived, just like Jamal.

The same goes for all the kids who die in fires. Most of those homes would have been torn down long ago if they were located in the suburbs, even the poorest suburbs. But because they're in Detroit, these dilapidated firetraps remain standing and children are living (and dying) in them.



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So sad. The media just enables this violence when they don't report on anything like this. Do you think anyone could've stopped this? I can't believe so many were just watching this happen... but then again look at the world we live not enough people want to help eachother.

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mslas4hillary wrote:

So sad. The media just enables this violence when they don't report on anything like this. Do you think anyone could've stopped this? I can't believe so many were just watching this happen... but then again look at the world we live not enough people want to help eachother.


Some were involved in the homicide and we know that he was set up by a female but we know nothing else.

 



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This saddens me so. It makes me feel like giving up on justice because it seems like there is none. I think the media looks at this like old news--nothing new to report; same death different day.

It's cold and irresponsible. Law enforcement doesn't want us to take the law into our own hands--well, whose hands should they be in? I'm no vigilanty and I hate violence but I can swing my cane and put my wheelchair in fast mode. Gun laws won't work because the bad guys acquire guns at the drop of a hat.

No one is protecting our children. There has to be a strong leadership in neighborhoods.

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