Posted on Tuesday, 11/03/2009 - 5:04 a.m. PST — by BarbaraY
Though the intentions are good by the spiritual leaders and concerned residents, what occurred has to become more than a "teachable moment." It needs to surface daily beyond tragic events; and it is not just a Richmond necessity.
If spiritual leaders are flocking from churches simply to voice reaction to such incidents, but otherwise are doing nothing to better control the uncontrollable, the "teachable moments" become pretty superficial and involve short-termed memory.
When parents don't care enough about their kids to chaperone a homecoming, maybe the continued presence of a spiritual leader or two, or other concerned residents, at similar events, will be enough to inspire the participants to act accordingly.
Otherwise, there is no message to get across.
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"Richmond, unfairly, is being characterized as a violent, urban wasteland." A glance at crime statistics and a drive down San Pablo some evening show this is a fair characterization. You see fistfights, drunk drivers, prostitutes, and fat teen mothers walking around with 2 - 3 kids. "Upstanding residents find themselves tarred with the same brush as those who committed the vicious attacks." As they should be. They created the moral and social environment in which these "kids" were raised. "Hardworking students at Richmond High feel they've been demonized in the national media because of the twisted acts of a few — some of whom didn't even attend their school." These assailants and onlookers constituted such a large group, put together more or less at random, that one can only conclude that they were fully representative of the school. Check out the comments of one Hispanic female on the comment boards "vega" who called the victim a B and a Ho, Ho, Ho.
CCTimes should pull back the camera lens to view how typical Richmond is of all California cities with large Mexican populations.
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