Asia Thompson…
“I feel like youth violence isn’t really under control because our younger generation seems to be killing each other more and more.”
Phelan Jones…
“I do not think communities are doing enough to help curb youth violence. Because you hear about it in the news, the government, they are always talking about it, but never hear anyone doing anything about it, like in the schools, in the arts, areas in the community. I haven’t heard anything like what is my old high school doing, colleges, not even my sisters elementary school is addressing it. So I know I’ve never heard about my community doing things to deter youth violence.”
Rukio…
“We are doing the best we can with the limited resources available to us. The challenge for us is how do we do more with the little resources available to us? We believe as long as we continue to be committed to our communities youth, we can prevent youth violence with whatever resources that are at our disposal.”
Mansa Musa…
“No, we need to create our own enterprise zones for our youth, training them in small business, international trade and basic home economics. There should be a safe interesting fun place for our youth to spend their time in every community.”
Onyx wheeler…
“My answer is would be no. Young people are dying every day and there is nothing done about it. You don’t even hear about in the news, so again, my answer is no the community has not done enough to help deter youth violence.”
Richard Bruce…
“I think that the community is not doing enough. They do not reach out to certain communities who may need help more than others. Some communities are not finding ways to reach out to youth so they have nothing to do but to take or seek other avenues or alternative ways to occupy their time.”
Aaron Bossett…
No! And it’s going to get worse. The elders are so disconnected from these youths reality, they can’t possibly deter the violence by doing nothing to help build strong young people. Until we pull our children out of the public school system we will see more violence. The violence is a symptom of no education. A true Community wouldn’t allow our children in Seattle to be educated 3grades below their white counter parts, or allow our young black men to be %98 of all suspensions and explosions in SPS, or allow this same system to label %60 of all our black students with IEP’s – follow the money, the young black student is a commodity to the current system, those IEP’s add an extra $7500 per student to the schools budget. If our kids ain’t learning coding, programming, 3D printing, LAW, entrepreneurship, conflict resolution, emotional literacy, they are not being educated – they are being used and traded like a commodity.
Photos/Aaron Allen
