I decided to write this after watching a documentary on the television. It was about these 3 kids and their bids to survive the hell that is modern day New Orleans. We're talking about a reality in which kids live with the uncertainty of whether they're gonna make it through to see themselves graduate high school. The reasons discounting the possibility vary from the more obvious ones of being uninspired to the more extreme ones of death and pregnancies.
Imagine being made to go through a metal detector topped with a thorough frisking just to get into your own school. Constant surveillance is a mandate here. Most of the kids attending schools have some sort of gang affiliation. Its a world where a minor scuffle can get you killed. "Guns are easier to find than books"...a direct quote from the Doc.
What do you do faced with such a monstrosity?
Death, it seems is all too familiar. Memorial services held in celebration of the ones slain are all too frequent. Kids killing other kids. What kind of a world are we offering them? The United States we believe has to look internally and address this issue; if they are to set any kind of legitimate example to the rest of the world.New Orleans lies in a state of bedlam. The world watches...
