Stephanie younger
Period 2
4-17-08
The Response
I feel that nothing will change if we don’t change first ourselve. Some people just want all the drama to stop, but it won’t because there are some adults out there that make up gangs and tell these boys that it’s cool to hang with them and then get them to start selling his drugs. It’s like it’s a repeating cycle that will never end. If something starts in the home you bring it outside if something start outside you bring it to school, and if something start in school it never ends.
This boy Ezell getting arrested will never end Chicago has bad police that is to me ‘’only for show’’. They don’t help us that don’t care just as long as they get there pay check and go home to there nice houses there cool. Thinking they did the city some justice. The police are just another gang. Martin Calderon that goes to Roberto Clemente school watch his friend beat somebody up, did go get help didn’t stop it that is the problem there is no help.
I was fortunate I had a good mother who took me from the ‘’WOOD’’ because if she did not I would be like some of my friend who have passed because they thought there was no way out. People like Michael Mack is everywhere just look at Derrick Rose we grew up together. We surround ourselves with people who loved to play ball and stay focus with your work in school and we made it.
Yes it’s hard to survive and the police are on your back sometimes for no reason at all, but we have to keep our head up even though it’s rough out here. People always gone to try to bring you done but like Nathaniel Hayes we got to just walk away from that fight that just was caused just because you do your work. I was born in Cook County.
When I tuned 8 we moved and was traveling the states, I learned who to love myself and how to be diverse. When I came home Chicago’s Englewood had the highest crime rate and deaths in America period. Like I said before it starts in the house first. Some of the kids don’t want to be in gangs but if they don’t have a family who clothes them and feeds them, then they will do wrong because they have to eat. What does she or he has to do to eat get a job? They are too young. So the hustle that is the second problem.
They are trying to survive because they had to grow up a little faster because they had to eat. We all need help some just other then me I think, this article is everyday life for some people. In the beginning it was for me. I even had to walk a new route just like Michael did because I did not want any problems. It’s hard when you don’t feel safe going to school or being in school, thinking that I’m going to get jumped. I feel that there will be no change no matter how many people get shoot, jumped, beat, or killed it’s going to stay the same.