Maybe it's the safe neighborhoods............
Unless you’ve got it like Russell Simmons and can pay for a bodyguard, every black parent who is raising a teenager in a predominantly black environment has to be worried.It is just not possible to keep your eyes on a teenager 24/7.
And there are black single mothers all over America who are doing the best they can to raise their sons to manhood, and those sons are being cut down because getting them to that promised land is getting a lot harder.
When my sons wanted to go out with friends on a Saturday night, I would give them their marching orders and a curfew. Now a mother has to practically sprinkle holy water on a son before she lets him walk out the door.
Last weekend it was Ryan Royall, a 17-year-old aspiring college basketball player. Royall had just finished his junior year at Hillcrest High School when he was gunned down after leaving a party.
The young black man’s death is the result of a “senseless shooting” at the kind of milestone event that we all remember. Royall and his friends went to a birthday party at the Ho-Chunk Sports and Expo Center in Lynwood. The facility was rented out for a 16-year-old’s birthday party.
Or maybe's it's the muggings on buses.........
In two separate incidents, as many as 15 teens have stormed Chicago Transit Authority buses, attacked their victims and darted off with cell phones and other electronic devices, authorities said Tuesday.
Both incidents were near the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, prompting city and campus authorities to issue community alerts.
In the first attack, near West Roosevelt Road and South Loomis Street at about 11:40 p.m. Saturday, a victim was struck multiple times before the thieves ran off with his cell phone.
About 25 minutes later, near South Racine Avenue and West 13th Street, a student said he was sitting on a No. 12 bus when as many as 15 black boys and young men boarded the bus without paying. The student was hit in the back of his head with a glass bottle and was robbed of his iPod, said UIC police.
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