26 June 2009
Chastity Turner.
Posted by nico under: Life as we know it .
Another young life was stolen from us last night. Chastity Turner might have been the first female President. She could have been anything she wanted, but now we’ll never know because of our apathy towards certain neighborhoods and cultures. Not everybody who lives on the southside is a gangbanger and no one deserves what happened to Chastity.
When are we going to say THAT’S ENOUGH and demand better for our neighborhoods and lives? When are we going to stop saying “Not my problem” and take an active role in bettering the lives of our children and their families? Chastity is our sister, our daughter, our niece, our friend. She deserved better. She deserved more than nine years on this planet.
I just read that a 17 year old has been arrested for her murder. This is a murder that could have been avoided. We gave up on that 17 year old years ago. We labeled him as a “gangbanger” or “hopeless”. I’m not making excuses for him. What he did was completely wrong and he needs to be punished, BUT it’s true that it was an avoidable crime. We have lost two young lives with this murder. Let’s not lose anymore. Let’s not continue to make the same mistakes.
Time to get up, get out, and do something.
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