Granny’s response is stereotypical. He was a good boy who just fell in with the wrong crowd, trying to turn his life around, blah blah blah. Any one of us could have written her script.
Yes, granny, every good boy walks into a bar armed and masked during an attempted hold up.
She claims she’s not trying to make excuses, the entire time making excuses. And in the meanwhile has no doubt met with a lawyer to see if the shooter or bar owner has any financial culpability.
This story line is old and trite. I may despise the “Great Society,” but in the nearly half century since it was brought into being, there have been not only horrific consequences in the ‘hood, but also thousands of young black men who walked the straight line, did the right thing, and worked their way out of it despite the odds. It does become a matter of personal choice.
She forgot to add that he needed just one more score to pay off his pusher and get him out of his life.
ok, maybe you all are completely without mercy here. And maybe the kid was completely BAD through and through. And definitely he shouldn’t have been robbing anybody.
BUT there are no jobs, each criminal can be presumed to have relatives whose hearts are breaking because of the things he did and what ended up happening with him This grandma can remember buying the kid a Happy Meal and him being little and cute.
My heart breaks for the stuff my kids go through, I would rather it be me than them. So yeah, I am PO’d about the bad breaks my kids got. She is probably PO’d about the bad breaks this kid got.
The robbee had the right to shoot him. And this is a rotten world. Doesn’t change the fact that her heart is broken for the kid.