I don’t like to say this because I deal with young kids all the time and all I can say is a kid like Travyon was heading to an early grave. Whether it be at the hands of a violent offender, a friend behind the wheel, an overdose or a drug deal, or getting shanked in the joint, the kid had a target on his back. He had a criminal record.. not just painting a tag on a dumpster or boosting hubcaps but actual violent crime and drug usage. He came from a broken home and at least one parent that didn’t know where he was while he laid on a slab in a morgue for a few days and a system that bent over backwards to practically sanction his self destruction under the guise of political correctness and “cultural differences”. It’s okay he takes pictures with guns (he’s not legally allowed to own), illegal drugs and bragged of making a concoction using skittles, watermelon tea and codeine (which is illegal), and use racial slurs, just don’t call us racists.
Each and every time someone intervened, his behavior was excused away. Now he’s dead because he picked on the wrong guy and we’re supposed to feel guilty. Sorry. I feel bad for his family because they failed and i just hope and pray I don’t fail as badly as they did.
Just thinking that if this happened at the hands of a young black man, his death would not have even warranted a mention in a newspaper, just a check-box on a file in a computer somewhere. That is where we should feel bad and that is where we fail our children. Take God out of everyday life and you have a godless life, everyday.