Posted on 04/09/2006 8:43:49 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
IMETTE: I BLAME SOCIETY & NOT KILLERS
By HEATHER GILMORE
Imette St. Guillen wrote about murder 15 days before she died.
April 9, 2006 -- Just 15 days before she was brutally slain, Imette St. Guillen wrote of her compassion and understanding for juvenile killers - blaming poor education and rising unemployment for a troubling rise in homicide in Boston, her hometown.
"I strongly believe that the reason for the increase in juvenile homicide in Boston during the past 15 years stems not from criminal justice policies and programs but from a lack of job opportunities for young people, a poor public school system . . . and from an increase in living expenses without a comparable increase in wages," the 24-year-old grad student wrote. "The gap between the middle class and the lower class is increasing, and I believe this causes tension amongst and within communities," she wrote.
St. Guillen posted her assignment Feb. 10 on a John Jay College electronic class discussion board. On Feb. 25, the always-smiling stunner was raped and murdered, and her body was dumped in an empty lot along the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. "This says a lot about the type of person she was," said classmate and friend David Speal, who spoke at a memorial at the West Side college Friday night. Speal, 24, works to help inmates make the transition from prison to the outside world. "Imette was so kind and caring . . . She has made me so much more committed, she has taught me so much," he said. Darryl Littlejohn, 41, a bouncer at The Falls, a SoHo bar, was charged with her murder.
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i wonder if she was blaming society and not killers when the last breaths of life where being taken from her?
What goes around, comes around.
Pity, really.
Not to be snarky, but it's easy to think that no one REALLY has a problem when you're beautiful and privledged.
Bummer she had to find out the hard way what the rest of us already know: there are a lot of psychos out there that just straight up enjoy hurting other people, and no amount of class balancing will ever change their twisted minds.
what's that saying....."ignorance is bliss".....how sad.
>>>what's that saying....."ignorance is bliss".....how sad.<<<
Quoted for truth.
"I am not trying to negate other factors, such as police tactics and drugs contribute to the change in crime rates (of course they do) but I think it is time to take preventative steps by way of education."
what a waste. I am "Society." (Marxist buzzword, like "struggle.") I did not kill her. I refuse any culpability.
About a year ago, when the Emerson College grad was violently killed in NYC, didn't her friends say that she wouldn't want to blame the killers that it was society's fault or something to that effect?
You said it. There are people out there who will kill you as soon as look at you and no midnight basketball or other misguided lib programs will make that go away. Better to teach your young people what's really up in the world.
I wonder if should would have liked a "do over" on that one?
>>>Better to teach your young people what's really up in the world.<<<
And how to handle a firearm, in the case of my future daughters.
Difference between libs and conservatives: libs think people are inherently good. Conservatives understand the nature of free will and that includes the will to do evil.
I cannot conceive of how short of a Clockwork Orange scenario certain areas of society can be educated.
So sad and ironic; she felt her killer's pain in more ways than one.
I'm guessing she stopped being a bleeding-heart liberal somewhere in between being raped and being murdered.
...and a lack of MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL!
< sarc>
Sorry, keep the above first 2 sentences italicised as they are the original poster's comments. My comments are sentences 2-n.
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