Frustrations...

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Yesterday, I witnessed something very disturbing. One of the two jobs that I have is teaching math to African American males and females to prepare them for the Minnesota Basic Standards Test. There are two sites that I have to visit, and both are in bad neighborhoods. Yesterday, after the program, I got in the car and started driving back home. We were at a stop light, and all of a sudden I noticed the car behind me swoop to my left. That was really wierd to me bacause there wasn't another lane to the left of me. So as I continued to observe, I noticed these African American young males, throw up gang signs. I was frightened immediately because I thought maybe somebody was about to start shooting. The light was red, so I couldn't move, and there was a car in front of me. So then the car sped up and tried to get back in the lane I was in, and ended up hitting the car in front of me. Of course, they didn't stop because they had just hit this car, and the police would have to get involved. So of course, I dipped out quickly and crossed the river to my neck of the woods. But yesterday frightened me because I was caught up in the middle. What if there was shooting? I could be dead right now. I'm so baffled as to why there's so much senseless violence. Lately, Minnesota has had so many gang related deaths. And there have been quite a few innocent people that have died as a result of this. What's going on?

And then, I think about the other things that African American people are being faced with: Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease, Illiteracy, AIDS, etc. What's going on with the African American race?