Education Will Help Save Youth From Gun Violence
More than 1,000 people gathered to mourn the death of the young rising star. A person who had already begun to commit their life to change, and was making a difference in their community.
Their death has caught the president’s attention and is being labeled a symbol of escalating violence in Chicago. If you’re thinking it’s 2013, and I’m describing Hadiya Pendleton, you’d be wrong.
In 2009, Francisco “Frankie” Valencia, a DePaul University honor student and political science major who dreamt of being the next Barack Obama, had his life ripped away from him in a senseless act of gun violence in Chicago.
What has changed since then?
The same shock and sentiment used to describe Hadiya Pendleton’s death were the same one’s Frankie’s family and friends heard. And yet the only thing that has changed is the aggressive speed in which the death toll has continued to rise.
By the end of 2012, Chicago had tallied 506 homicides related to gun violence.
What needs to change?
It’s our educational system.
Residents living near homicides were much more likely to be black, earn less money and lack a college degree, according to a 12-year analysis of homicides and census data in Chicago by the New York Times.
That means it’s not enough to demand tough restrictions on guns or harsher punishments on criminals. Our society needs to hold itself accountable and accept that we haven’t just failed Hadiya or Frankie, we’ve failed their killers as well.
We want killers punished to the full extent of the law after committing a crime, instead of investing in preventive measures through education, after school programs and mentoring to curtail the violence on Chicago’s streets before it even begins.
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Education ain’t gonna save shyt!!! How do you expect these racist cracker teachers to ‘educate’ our children when they treat them like shyt in class?
They still tell them, like they did our ancestors, that we ain’t NOTHING! Therefore, educating our children ain’t gonna do a da.mn thang. WE MUST TEACH OUR OWN…PERIOD!
Education is nothing, but a code name for ‘training’. Our children and adults are being TRAINED to become slaves and servants for crackers. We need to teach our children KNOWLEDGE and WISOM, instead of educating them.
From kindergarten through college our children are only taught that we were slaves! DO Y’ALL CALL THIS ‘EDUCATION’? We once ruled the world and CONTRIBUTED and INVENTED everythang we touch, but the romans and greeks stole our inventions, then claimed to be the ‘founding fathers’, but they were nothing, but a bunch of LOST liars, theives, and USURPERS.
When you are ‘educated’ you only learn what your are taught, but when you learn KNOWLEDGE and WISDOM, you NEVER stop learning.
Peace!
By the way…cracker teachers teach their kids to become OWNERS of businesses, while they TRAIN our children to work for them!!!
Exactly!
Seem to me that education has been free to us since 1950 and we mostly didn’t believe in education then and we mostly don’t believe in it now!
Being of low intelligence and having a low information status hurts doesn’t it!
If we don’t kill ignorance — one day ignorance will kill us.
Education without real economic opportunities is a joke. Our greedy selfish black wealthy people have not created foundations for our communities, therefore, we will continue in an economic and social fall into the abyss for many more decades. Black folks submission to the slave masters versions of the Bible and our desire to be loved by whites Will keep us down for decades to come.