Yes, you are of course correct, the kid likely had either a deadbeat dad or a worthless dad. This is a cause for compassion, not hatred. The kid had many strikes against him, lived in the ghetto, had no part-time job, no dad, no one who loved him. What would you have done? How would you have turned out? Instead of being cynical and hopeless, start wrestling with how do we turn this devastation around? How do we teach men to think about something other than their own gratification and start to behave in the way a father really should, protecting and providing? This kid would likely have had a better chance if he had a father to protect and provide instead of being flung out to seek his fortune on the mean drug infested streets of some cold city.
You don’t teach men to do anything, really.
You teach the women to not have sex with deadbeats.
We should take money from people who are working and give it to these poor city kids. That’s the solution.
“the kid likely had either a deadbeat dad or a worthless dad.”
Thats my point, without TWO caring parents (or atleast one) this kid didnt have much of a chance. THE PARENT(S) failed this kid which in my opinion is why he is dead, not because the cops “slaughtered” him as the mother says. As far as hating, the only thing I hate is hearing the same story over and over with the people that are the root cause of the whole thing blaming the cops EVERY time. As for myself, I stayed in school, only a high school grad but I had two loving parents to keep me straight and that IMHO is the difference. Make no mistake, this problem begins in the home.