Posted on 12/27/2015 1:28:58 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
Jamarlon Edwards is too young to buy beer, but he's charged with murder, capital murder, theft and robbery in a string of carjackings in the Birmingham area.
Aaron Thomas, 17, is charged with capital murder. So are 18-year-old James Reynolds and 19-year-old Dominic Keeth. Ditto 16-year-old Anthony Murray, 18-year-old Harold Mason, 18-year-old Rufus Clyde Jr. and 18-year-old Cameron Green.
It's been that kind of year. An epidemic of children turned killers.
In the Birmingham area in 2015, at least 16 teens were charged with capital murder or murder, including a 15-year-old who is said to have killed three in cold blood and is suspected in a fourth slaying.
A band of teens wrought havoc in a series of home invasions in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. A 13-year-old is charged in Birmingham with shooting another child.
Drugs, unsupervised lives, too little love at home, the allure of power through violence. Prosecutors, investigators, and officials struggle to explain.
"It seems we see more and more of violent young men who take no thought of the feelings of others," said Bessemer Cutoff Chief Assistant District Attorney Bill Veitch. "These individuals seem to regard others as almost video-game characters that stand between themselves and what they want; be it property, sex, cash, or simply the 'high' of firing a gun and seeing someone go down."
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Great post.
It can all be boiled down to the question: when are blacks going to stop killing people?!
Many have already posted to lay blame on absence of fathers and I believe that is indeed part of the problem but actually only a symptom. It is the larger fact that there is an absence of FAMILY within that neighborhood and culture and worse an anti-family bias there. It is the incessant denigration of FAMILY by popular culture in music, education, government, cinema, TV and idols.
FAMILY is the nugget of culture and civilization. Children that are started within it make better choices and end up with far better outcomes than those without. The HORRIBLE denouement of Bill Cosby has forever tarnished a really great teaching lesson that was the Huxtable Family!
How we will return our country to a FAMILY-centric culture is a problem that I see no solution for because there are so many factions seeking their goals in a non-family society. It may take a revolution from the base to accomplish and that will be bloody!
The Second Coming - Yeats 1919
- - - - -
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
I don’t think they will.
Thank you for a thoughtful post!
It is estimated that blacks are perpetrators of 90% of all violent crime.
Sure. Black folks will stop killing others soon because the LeBron James, Danny Glover, Michael Jordan, and many, many of the black entertainers are all harping on black youngsters to work hard, get a strong education and supporting family values. Oh wait, they aren’t.
Hello! Dumbasses!
It was not due to gun violence.
It was because of black gangbanger violence.
Their solution: Reopen a community center to give the "teens" something to do.
The burning stench of stupidity could be smelled 100 miles away.
They like to shoot each other up during the holidays for some reason.
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