The big story floating through cyber world today is the arrest of a 19 year old for his participation in a gang rape of an 11 year old little girl. This young man along with six other gang members sexually assaulted the young girl in a park bathroom. This is the second sexual assault in a month in the California neighborhood park.
My question....what are we going to do? Yes, what are WE going to do. The state of our young people is really a reflection on what the generation prior has done. We can no longer place blame and say the streets, drugs, gangs, negativity, if you ask me, they are all crutches that we use to keep the blame from ourselves. To be quite honest for a second, it is our fault. Come off the high horse for a moment. Believe me, I am talking to myself as well. We can do more. I know that I could do more. Our children are seriously loosing while we watch on the sidelines shaking our head. Seriously, we should be the ones shaking our head at ourselves.
How many times have we been in the presence of youth who just didnt know any better and offered to mentor? How many times have we saw a young girl cursing like crazy to cover her low self-estteem and just turned our head in disgust? Really, just think about it. How many times have we past judgement on these children and have had no clue as to what they face in their personal lives everyday. Many of our young people are raising themselves or raising other siblings or a parent.
It is evidenced in the bullying, the disrespect, the murders, the rapes, and the pain that they are calling out for help. Here is a question that we should all ask ourselves....have we let our children down?
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