This Saturday my granddaughter's father lost another cousin to homicide. Big Tone was 31 years old. He and his little brother Trillis used to hang out at my house, several years ago.
Last year Trillis lost his life; he was also shot. Last weekend another young man, Purderty, age 25, was killed in a bar on the South Side of Pittsburgh. He grew up in Hawkins Village and knew my kids.
These three men are by no means the only people I know who have been murdered. I have been dealing with losing people to homicide for 31 years. It never gets easier. It just gets passed down to the next generation.
My adult children in their 20s and 30s have all lost several friends. My granddaughter who is seven has now lost three cousins.
We are tired of it but nothing ever changes because of the no-snitching rules. Little kids are taught that snitches get stitches. People who snitch have been killed. So every spring the Hood USA loses people. Thousands of young men are murdered every year.
People in the Hood often ask themselves: Does the rest of America know what is going on in the Hood? Do they even care?
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