Article response

It is heart breaking to see that our young students that aspire to do well in school and make something of themselves are dealing with violence and tragedy every time they walk out of the front door. It’s even worse to see them killed for just even being on the wrong side of the street or the wrong place at the wrong time. Like Olajuwon, an honor roll student, who was murdered. He was on his way to great things but was cut short by a bullet in his chest. Thomas, his friend, seeing his picture on that table, must have felt like there was no hope for anyone.

The statistics of how many African American students graduated or even made it out of high school is so low it’s crazy. It certainly does not give others who really want to do well much of a hope. If anything it makes them feel that their chances of success are slim to none. It’s hard to surround yourself with positive influences when all you see when you look around is negativity. Also why does it cost so much for Us to be successful. In the article it states that it would cost two million dollars per year to help our people in school with healthy programs and organizations to help us achieve. I bet if a group of white student needed it would be close to free. It just isn’t right. It is quite ridiculous.

We never hear about our people doing well in the media or in general. They always focus on the negative things that are happening in our community. They focus on the violence and crime and poverty that we face day to day as if we don’t already know it’s happening. Although choice has a big part in how our “future” plays out, sometimes it doesn’t even matter what you choose to surround yourself with, sometimes bad things just happen. I feel that from this article we can just be thankful for what we have when we have it and not let the statistics rule us but rather changing the statistics into something more positive.