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Good Evening Family,
Today I come to you with a heavy heart. Yesterday a good young man and friend was senselessly gunned down in front of his home. Ive known Ronald CoCroft Jr all sixteen years of his life and I can't imagine anyone wanting to harm this well mannered and respectable young man. I'm still in shock writing this. As I drove around the city of Newark, NJ tonight, I thought to myself, this isn't the same city I grew up in. The unnecessary violence has got to stop. Our youth are steadily killing themselves over nonsense. Gone are the days when we generally got along with everyone in our neighborhoods and even the adjacent neighborhoods. Rivalries were confined to the playgrounds or the high schools in the form of basketball and football games. If we did have beef with someone we shot a quick fair one with our hands and both the winner and loser went their separate ways with no plans of future retaliation. Today's youth are mere punks who hide their cowardliness behind the barrels of guns. No more one on one fist-a-cuffs in the school yard at the sound of the 3o'clock bell. No more if I have a problem with you, I'm man or woman enough to tell you to your face. Nowadays it's driveby's and cowardly gunfire from a distance.
Whitney Houston sang a song called the Greatest Love of All whose first line started as "I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way, show them all the beauty the possess inside..." Well newsflash, we aren't teaching them properly and they're dying at a rate in which they're not getting a chance to witness the future. The village is no longer effective, which is ironic in this era of reality TV. Everyone wants to see but no one wants to get involved. Everyone plays the background until they are directly affected by tragedy. Why does it have to come to that? Parents it's time to step up and do our parts. Each one teach one isn't the answer anymore. Each one should teach two or three or even four because the one that you don't teach will be the same one that harms the one that you do teach.
My condolences go out to the Cocroft Friends and Family and to all those who have been affected by senseless violence. We will definitely bounce back but we will never bounce the same....
What do you think???????????????????
I think it's really sad that our kids aren't allowed to grow up. They are dying younger and younger and for what? Nonesense. It's unbelievable, sad, and very frustrating that you can't go outside and just sit on your porch or walk to the corner store, or just be outdoors these days. I moved away, but there's not a day that goes by that I don't hear anything good that's happening in Newark. Only time I hear about Newark, is when somebody dies or put in the hospital over stupidity. WHY? People aren't the same anymore. Especially this new generation. They have no respect for anyone, anything, or for the most part, themselves. So they don't care about the next person. I am so glad that I don't have this generation as a part of my peers. I would be afraid. I'm too the point where I would rather not come visit Newark. If it wasn't for my family that lives in Newark, I wouldn't come into this city. I was born and raised in Newark and I'll be damned if I raise my daughters in the here and now, Newark.
ReplyDeleteThere is no such thing as shooting a fair one or letting it go when you get your ass whooped. That's not even in this generation vocabulary. Everybody's too concerned about what the next person got, or what they look like in front of their peers, instead of loving themselves and having their own minds.
I hope this cycle stops soon, because there's no hope for the future Newarkers to live a somewhat of a better life. Then when a person moves away, they're looked at as a sellout or thinking those people are too good from where you come from. We all have to make choices in life and I hope and pray that the majority make better decisions, especially these young kids who think they know every darn thing.
My condolences goes out to the CoCroft family, as well.
We have to pay more attention to what our kids are involved in today instead of letting them sit around playing games and listening to music that sparks their interest to do something wrong.
ReplyDeleteI have worked around kids in many different capacitnk ies.I ahve worked with murderers,rapist etc.I have worked in the school district with gangs.I promise that it is no longer cool to be a athlete or a class clown.You get no respect from your peers for that.They think cool is being able to give a order to someone and have it caried out,which shows power.I dont like to say its their parents faults because that is not always the truth,but there are a lot of parents who are at fault.They do and did what there kids are doing now.The other kids R being raised my elderly grandparents or aunts or even foster care.This is the loss generation and if we dont make a change their kids will be worse.I promise I get furious when I see drug dealers get life in prison for selling it,but these murderers get 3-5 yrs.WTF.Yo its bad out there yo I wanna move away so bad and leave them to each others mercy but my heart wont let me.
ReplyDeleteby the way take ur big face out the pic lol.
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