‘Dear Young Black Males, Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself, even if nobody else does. Strive to be self motivated’ - Stephanie Lahart
More than once a day I see that another black male has died in London and I can’t come to terms with the fact that this is so normalised.
When you grow up in an area where all you know is violence from a young age, where people dying and killing around you isn’t a thing, you start to not care. Someone dies? you brush it and move on because it’s nothing new and I’m very much guilty of this. This mind set is wrong, we should never be comfortable or content with someone’s life being taken just because it ‘happens all the time’.
It’s crazy to me how we’re only in the fourth month of the year and the number of people dying are increasing drastically. We’re in a country where we have a gun ban but the rates of people dying have over taken New York . If that is not evident enough to show everyone that this is getting ridiculous then I don’t know what will. We are murdering our brothers and sisters, what was the point of being set free from slavery just to use our freedom to kill one another it’s pathetic tbh. We should be pushing each other to do our best constantly , the amount of talent and potential we have in the Black community is amazing but we have nothing to show for it.
It’s sad how most of the people that beef used to be right hands and now they're killing them over post codes and petty beef, who actually gave you the right to take another persons life. Its honestly heart breaking seeing so many young people’s life being wasted, not to mention the innocent ones who get caught up in all the mess.
There’s not much being done for youth in society, when we were younger there were so many youth clubs and events that united the youth together.
We’re in a society where people are being dragged on social media for stating that stop and searches should be brought back? What’s the problem of wanting better for ourselves just because that requires some of you to be 'pestered' by police. If that’s what it takes to reduce the amount of knives on the street what is the actual issue?
Despite the fact crime has always been a problem, I do believe certain type of drill music contributes and influences the rise in crime. The amount of males that have described how drill music makes them feel suggests to me that young boys that don’t know much and are not strong minded will definitely hear this and want to participate in that behaviour.
Many people are saying that the media are amplifying the crime that is going on because of our new mayor being an ethnic minority, this is most probably true however that doesn’t take away the fact that these statistics are real. It doesn’t take away the fact that we are murdering each other every single day. Instead of complaining about those in power trying to make us look bad , focus on ourselves and transform , people tend to look at other things to explain or downplay the problem. We don’t all have the same advantages as others but we all have a choice, a choice to either stay in our position or change it, we need to stop feeling sorry for ourselves and using status frustration and being marginalised as an excuse to join gangs and commit crimes, all the odds are against us already and we’re not making it any better for us, do greater for yourself and don’t become a statistic.
You’re Amazing, You’re Beautiful, You’re Black. Get focused, utilise your facilities and make money. - KW x
More than once a day I see that another black male has died in London and I can’t come to terms with the fact that this is so normalised.
When you grow up in an area where all you know is violence from a young age, where people dying and killing around you isn’t a thing, you start to not care. Someone dies? you brush it and move on because it’s nothing new and I’m very much guilty of this. This mind set is wrong, we should never be comfortable or content with someone’s life being taken just because it ‘happens all the time’.
It’s crazy to me how we’re only in the fourth month of the year and the number of people dying are increasing drastically. We’re in a country where we have a gun ban but the rates of people dying have over taken New York . If that is not evident enough to show everyone that this is getting ridiculous then I don’t know what will. We are murdering our brothers and sisters, what was the point of being set free from slavery just to use our freedom to kill one another it’s pathetic tbh. We should be pushing each other to do our best constantly , the amount of talent and potential we have in the Black community is amazing but we have nothing to show for it.
It’s sad how most of the people that beef used to be right hands and now they're killing them over post codes and petty beef, who actually gave you the right to take another persons life. Its honestly heart breaking seeing so many young people’s life being wasted, not to mention the innocent ones who get caught up in all the mess.
There’s not much being done for youth in society, when we were younger there were so many youth clubs and events that united the youth together.
We’re in a society where people are being dragged on social media for stating that stop and searches should be brought back? What’s the problem of wanting better for ourselves just because that requires some of you to be 'pestered' by police. If that’s what it takes to reduce the amount of knives on the street what is the actual issue?
Despite the fact crime has always been a problem, I do believe certain type of drill music contributes and influences the rise in crime. The amount of males that have described how drill music makes them feel suggests to me that young boys that don’t know much and are not strong minded will definitely hear this and want to participate in that behaviour.
Many people are saying that the media are amplifying the crime that is going on because of our new mayor being an ethnic minority, this is most probably true however that doesn’t take away the fact that these statistics are real. It doesn’t take away the fact that we are murdering each other every single day. Instead of complaining about those in power trying to make us look bad , focus on ourselves and transform , people tend to look at other things to explain or downplay the problem. We don’t all have the same advantages as others but we all have a choice, a choice to either stay in our position or change it, we need to stop feeling sorry for ourselves and using status frustration and being marginalised as an excuse to join gangs and commit crimes, all the odds are against us already and we’re not making it any better for us, do greater for yourself and don’t become a statistic.
You’re Amazing, You’re Beautiful, You’re Black. Get focused, utilise your facilities and make money. - KW x
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