I just knew my sorors and friends would have something to say about this! I caught the tail end of BET Tonight last night, and the boy's father called in to the show, saying that the prosecutor and those who support trying his son as an adult "don't know all the facts.." What other facts would mitigate the ones we already know? We know that his irresponsible, rage-filled son obtained a gun with the express purpose to do violence to his teacher. What else is there to know? That he didn't MEAN for it to go off? Why did he leave school and then return with the gun? I'm sick of people making excuses for their bad parenting and saying the system is railroading their children. If he was five, maybe, but 13? Come on! He's old enough (and supposedly intelligent enough) to understand what he did. Too bad his parents and others (who are looking to make a buck off this) don't understand what he did as well. If I hear one more person say "I know what he did was wrong, BUT..." I'm going to lose my mind!
If he had killed my mother, father, husband, sister, etc. I would want justice, and letting the killer out at 21 (only eight years from now) wouldn't feel like justice to me. Why is it in these situations, the killer and their family gets more attention than the victim and their family's pain?
Yes, blacks are victims of a corrupt system, but that fact shouldn't be used to explain away EVERY unconscionable act committed by one of our own. It teaches young people that no matter what they do, "the man" is gonna hold them down, so shoot, why not do whatever you want to do? WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE WE RAISING OUR YOUNG TO BE? IS THIS WHAT OUR ANCESTORS FOUGT AND DIED FOR? TO MAKE "EXCUSES"?
Yall, I'm sorry for the long post, but that child's father almost made me cuss last night with that mess! Let me sit down somewhere!
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