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Youth Violence in Southeast Raleigh

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With another teen shot to death, leaders in Southeast Raleigh are calling for action bold enough to grab the attention of the White House.

  Early Monday morning, police found Rodriquez D’Shay Burrell shot muliple times at 500 Haywood St. Shortly afterward, activist Daniel Coleman called for citizens to march and pray through the neighborhood on Saturday in hopes of reclaiming the streets from violent youth crime. They will meet in front of the vacant lot at 500 E. Cabarrus St. at noon.

  "My friends," Coleman wrote in an e-mail to community leaders, "this madness has to stop."

   But just last week, Raleigh's black leadership called for a nationwide summit or panel that would address youth violence's cause from every angle. Hopes are that an event would be large and innovative enough to attract the attention of President Barack Obama. Perhaps each legislator across the state could forward a resolution to Washington calling for attention to the problem, said Bruce Lightner, who said his Raleigh funeral home buried four youths last year.

   "It needs to be put on his radar screen," Lightner said  in a meeting at The News & Observer. "We can start a groundwell."

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Hopes are that an event

Hopes are that an event would be large and innovative enough to attract the attention of President Barack Obama. Thanks 

Why so serious?

I guess, you could not come up with an intelligent arguement so you start witht he whole Bush thing. Yes, I am a republican but hardly a fan of W. I think you should do this for yourselves instead of asking me for help. I personally don't care if you all shoot each other. It would make my life more enjoyable because than we would not have to hear from you about all the problems you have created for yourselves.
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thank you very much

wow. this is really, really

wow. this is really, really sad. sometimes it is best to say nothing. as many of u should.we are talking about the life of a child and maybe other children.such hatred and anger. i pray for our society and each of u. so many seem to know what the problem is but never offer a helping hand. if u know that these children are unloved, molested and treat as a check. Do someting about it. guide a young person early in their lives. people, make a difference not more hate.in the name of Jesus. Amen

jaysumara - I think you're off base here

You posted, in part, the following:
"Your comment is so very typical of all of the Bush fans who had no problem when the former President Bush was misappropriating funds from every pants pocket that he had, to include the boming of the Twin Towers, a senseless war with thousands killed and the most recent fall of Wall Street, leaving President Obama to try his level best to clean up a very dire situation that some of our current leaders would call "generational theft", which is what it has been since the beginning of the Bush, Jr., Administration. Now we're supposed to believe that this "thing" that has come out of nowhere is actually a flu from swine that is deadly and spreading faster than than one can say "amen"? "
I see you believe that one president bombed the Twin Towers and you infer that the swine flu was of his making as well? Do I read that correctly?
And yet the rest of your post was telling someone else they are confused or wrongheaded?
Classic irony.

If they'd just round up all

Such hate as communicated in "If they'd just round up all the chimps" is despicable beyond words. We shall pray for you and those of your ilk.

Mercy

I agree with you. The people

I agree with you. The people should have been more understanding to each other. Let's work for the world's peace together. free advertising |part time jobs |latex mattress

I Agree

It is despicable to think it would be good for them to ll jump around like chimps. It would be better if they would all lie around like a bunch of dead chimps instead

If they'd just round up all

If they'd just round up all the chimps in the area between 12 and 60 and cut their balls off NOW, crime would go down 90% in two weeks time. They ALWAYS calm down after they're cut. And not only do they calm down and behave, they can't breed and reproduce more of the same. Cut ALL of 'em NOW, throw a little turpentine on it, and FORGET ABOUT IT.

castration is not the answer

Wow, could you be any more of a nazi?!  Castration ended years ago when it was proven to not be effective and might I add is a violation of our 8th Amendment as well!  There are other ways of handling violence among youths without inflicting harm unto them.  You need to take a look around you and acknowledge not only the genetic effects but also the societal/environmental effects that can contribute to the risk of a youth engaging in violent crime.  As far as I can tell, you're part of the problem if you believe and say racist comments such as that.  Why don't you do a little research before you start running your mouth!

Mr. Crosby's Comments-How Typical of the "Bush Fans"

Mr. Crosby,

 Your comment is so very typical of all of the Bush fans who had no problem when the former President Bush was misappropriating funds from every pants pocket that he had, to include the boming of the Twin Towers, a senseless war with thousands killed and the most recent fall of Wall Street, leaving President Obama to try his level best to clean up a very dire situation that some of our current leaders would call "generational theft", which is what it has been since the beginning of the Bush, Jr., Administration.  Now we're supposed to believe that this "thing" that has come out of nowhere is actually a flu from swine that is deadly and spreading faster than than one can say "amen"?  The current affairs of this country and the world did not start nor may not be resolved by President Obama, as he repeatedly stated to the country and the world prior to his election, which I might add, was executed by a fair and impartial people who were sick and tired of the same and truly welcomed change, no matter what this man's race.  George Bush, Jr., should have been impeached at best, but I digress because I am here to address your very inappropriate comment.

 Not everyone's child signifies a "government check" as you have so crassly put your views and perhaps if some of the people you reference had had as equal an opportunity as far back as the ending of slavery, not having been passed down their 40 acres and mule (and perhaps in your ancestors' cases, horses), then they may not currently have to ask for welfare checks, food stamps, medicaid, child care subsidy, WIC, etc., as I'm sure your ancestors and you have been fed through a hefty silver spoon with an endless purse.

 You are correct on one point.  The people you reference DON'T ask for anything because they know that they WON'T receive what you yourself would no less demand and take.  If you don't see this for what it is, a SENSELESS KILLING, then you yourself need to have your head examined and are in dire need of a heart transplant as well.  It is people like YOU who are free to go about their day undected that scares people like ME.

 Or perhaps you are some lonely man whom life has failed and you cannot get over the fact that perhaps you are amongst the very people you feel are only validated by government checks?

Those people that you speak of are working, functioning, educated people who simply ask for the "break in life" that I'm sure, again people like yourself would demand and ultimately take.  But then again, you're probably against affirmative action as well.

 When you take away a people's means to make money, pay rent, mortgage or the like, take away their means to provide for their children, build liquor stores and corner stores full of libations, build weapon stores in and about their communities, what do you expect?  A Wakefield Plantation, Phoenix type of set up to come out the ashes?

Regentrification is imminent, but it takes time, man power and monetary resources to complete this process.  It will not happen overnight; however, some of the people you reference having been doing the very best that they can before you were born, made your ludicrous comment, and as I'm sure they'll be doing until the world as we know it is no more.

 Are you sure you don't know a little something about getting a government check, Mr. Crosby?  You sound a little too "versed" at it to be a complete stranger to it. 

 It is public displays of ignorance such as yours that continues to set everyone back as a people, "One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for All" (bet you forgot about that one, the Pledge of Allegiance to our country's flag, probably not written by "one of them" either).

Clean up your own backyard of your prejudicial and bigoted undertones, Mr. Crosby, before you go peeping into someone else's.

 You should be ashamed of your comment, yourself and sympathetic to the plight of these senseless teenage killings.

 

Yes, jaysumara, everything

Yes, jaysumara, everything is given to me. I have no code of conduct, reason for pride, etc. I hold out my hand and someone puts money into it. My family handed down all the family land that has been in my family for hunreds of years. We need not work for anything. Now that the funny part is over. Let me tell you that mt family came to the US in 1902 as recent freed serfs of the Czar of Russia, which meant they were slaves. Since then, my father graduated from Engineering school, I have attended college and worked for everything that I have. Nobody has given me or mine anything, and we have not begged for anything either. My family has codes of conduct and respect for ourselves. What is your people's problem that they feel I owe them something, or anybody else owes them something. Clean up your neighborhood by yourself, I see no reason to help or assist in any way shape or form. You created the problem thru your top notch parenting skills and care for your community. Remember it is not what you can do for yoyr country, it is what your country can do for you, right?? Get over it, nobody cares, especially me.

I guess, you could not come

I guess, you could not come up with an intelligent arguement so you start witht he whole Bush thing. Yes, I am a republican but hardly a fan of W. I think you should do this for yourselves instead of asking me for help. I personally don't care if you all shoot each other. It would make my life more enjoyable because than we would not have to hear from you about all the problems you have created for yourselves.

That's funny - I have alot

That's funny - I have alot of teenagers around where I live, and I do not see the violence as is occurring in SE Raleigh (although I do not live in SE Raleigh). I believe the problem is with the culture of many of the people who live there. A culture who feels it is acceptable for babies to be having babies, and a culture where men are not raising their children, and a culture where education is not considered important, and a culture where people expect they do not have to work but they do expect other people to be paying their way through life, and a culture where violence is the way to solve a problem - is the problem. If all of these teenagers were put into a stable homes and good culture when they were born then most of them would probably turn into productive adults. The problem can be resolved - but most people due not have the stomach nor the nerves to do what needs to be done to fix the problem.

all aspects

Finally, some kind of action. I hope they will address the ROOT causes of this violence: childhood pedophilia victims, teen pregnancy, teen suffering, poor, or no, parenting, hazing, slapping, beating, and molestation of young children--THAT'S where the violence gets its inception!

parenting

I agree, it is all a product of the poor parenting skills of the people who live there on my tax dollars. Remeber, it is not a child, it is a federal check. Treat it that way and everyone will be much better off. Hear that kids, your "parents", if you know who they are, look at you as nothing more than a check

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Josh Shaffer feels drawn to life's smaller stories – the tiny triumphs of ordinary people, the curiosities you see out the window of your car. He plays the trombone. He can juggle a little. His hero is this guy from Baltimore who lost his paycheck when it blew off his dashboard, and who responded by stopping his car to do a little dance on the shoulder and say, "Oh, well. I'll get another one next week."
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