Sometimes as a Human being we get wrapped up in our own little bubble. We get so worried about our own City, Town or Village that we are not paying attention to what’s going on around us. I have personally been paying attention to what has been going on in Chicago. Ever since I heard of Chef Keef step brother getting killed!
Chef Keef step-brother was known as YPN Boomtown, and tho I still can’t understand why a 19 year old rapper gets shot in the back of the head while sitting in a car. When you have rap beef and you’re talking to real street thugs, these things can happen. ( Ask Rick Ross about that topic).
But Chicago is a teen death trap right now. In January alone there was 40 homicides. Of the 40 killings 32 was of kids 20 and under. I’m not one for any kids getting killed, but the gang members and the ones who want to be thugs. Have an understanding that this might happen any time, so i’m not too concerned with those killings. ( which is sad to say)
But these Honor roll students and kids who actually want to go to college are really bothering me as a parent. President Obama did a speech friday at a public school in Chicago. Hours after his speech An 18-year-old high school student with dreams of attending college was fatally shot in Humboldt Park. Frances Colon is Roberto Clemente Community Academy 3rd student who has got killed this year!
“I’m sick of it,” Clemente’s principal Marcey Sorensen told the Tribune. “How many more kids have to die before we do something?”
Colon’s death was the second in a violent weekend marked by one additional homicide and five non-fatal shootings — three of which occurred within a 90 minute period of Colon’s killing. All Young adults!
The Pictures above is of Janay Mcfarlane, who was killed just hours after her sister sat on stage for the President Gun Speech in Chicago. She is leaving behind a 3 month old son. Mcfarlane was shot once in the head around 11:30 p.m. Friday in North Chicago. She was in the Chicago suburb visiting friends and family.
“I really feel like somebody cut a part of my heart out,” Angela Blakely, Mcfarlane’s mother, said.
Blakely said the bullet that killed Mcfarlane was meant for a friend.
It saddens me to think about her 3 month old son not getting the chance to know his mother. It doesn’t matter to me who the bullet was for because like most kids are told “a bullet has no names on it”. But something needs to change in Chicago NOW! More police patrolling the parks or walking the beat at night or something. I want people to be aware of these killings in Chicago. Pay attention because the way Chicago handles this violence will be the blueprint for every major City.
How can this be stopped? Is it too late for Chicago? Who in Chicago is willing to stand up and be the face of this movement?
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