A Change of View

 

          Every day in Erban America another dream is shatter by a drug, a gunman, an accident, a disease or even things as simple as  the lack of encouragement or opportunity. After recent incidents involving children being hurt there have been calls to arms of sorts. New cries have emerged asking what to do to protect the futures of the innocent? How could something like this happen in light of what has happened in Columbine?  VA. Tech? and even more recently Aurora? This will not revisit massacres but wait, these aren’t really considered urban areas. So now we must ask what is the catalyst for this malice this disregard for human life. What was once looked at as something you would expect to happen in an inner city school has now reach suburbia?

 

             

Opportunity knocks! I think the difference between middle class and millionaire can be something as simple as opportunity. Could the difference between success and failure be that simple?  Howard Stern once said something to that effect in an interview with rapper Jay-Z, while Howard Stern is a famous radio personality, when speaking of Bill Gates says …(and I’m paraphrasing) basically Bill Gates had almost unlimited access to the computer lab at a time when lab time had to be brought …could this have contributed to Bill Gates becoming who he is today?  That question was rhetorical! With that said who’s to say we are not hindering that the next great innovator with the Erban closures of Boy’s and Girl’s clubs, Recreation centers and programs promoting the Arts.  

 

Be Encouraged! In today’s age of Facebook parenting could the public embarrassment and humiliation of our children contribute to the explosion of copy cat Columbine’s?  I wonder everything is so instantly connected that beating you used to get when you brought home bad grades is now one stop short of reality tv. Parents are now posting punishments and making the children retract false statements live and in color in almost real time. Has this form of parenting been effective or is it disrespectful  to the young who’s respect has been proclaimed yet? I was told as at youth “when grown folks are speaking you should be quite…”    which leads me to think maybe this mixing of generations via social media is not a good idea?  I wonder if there is a whole group of children walking around with bubbling anger inside because they felt as if they where disrespected and they have no way of letting that pressure release?  

 

Maybe we as human beings need to change our view … I live on the bottom floor of my complex so I never knew what it looked like from the second floor of my building  till I went upstairs and looked out of the window. Wow that’s crazy how 13 stairs could change the whole view of my block …..