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Wednesday, October 4, 2017
When Will Hood Lives Matter to John and Jane Q Public
During the mass shooting in Las Vegas, a young man in an accusing tone basically asked me of I had ever been in a mass shooting. I live in the hood of course I've experienced a lot of gun violence. In 2012, during an afternoon street shootout a bullet wizzed by my head. I was walking to the store school busses were unloading and two young men began firing at each other from cars. I was lucky I didn't get shot that day. I have lost friends and children I watched grow up. I have held in my arms mothers who lost their sons or daughters.
It is due to this that mass shootings affect me. I have no tolerance for politics about anything when this happens. I always end up feeling some kind of way that anytime this happens the gun control issue comes up. If every Liberal in the United States would be as impassioned about violence in the hood we may be able to solve this issue. If Liberals and Conservatives would march with us during peace March's we would know that you care. Most people in the hood say this about those outside the Hood. It comes from Boyz in Da Hood. "Either they don't know they don't show, or they don't care about what goes on in the hood". Ice Cube said this in 1991 and 27 years later it still is relevant. I have been online for nine years preaching about this and unlesse they are from the hood or they are Conservative, people read but they either are afraid of being labeled racist or they do not know what to say. People are silent. Conservatives are called racist so they are more free to speak out. This is a warning to Liberals if you do not stop ignoring us we will not vote for you. We are getting tired and trust and believe Republicans will come to our hoods and they will care and you will lose us. Do not take us for granted anymore.
Every year in the US we lose thousands every year to gun violence in the hood and thousands more are injured. That is 100 times more than all the mass shootings put together. When are people gonna care about our lives?
Hood lives matter and we are dying. Please care about us.
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