By Sandrea:- MY GRIPE
This constant teenage slaying is getting on my last nerves, don’t these kid realise that nobody wins when these kind of crimes occurs.
There is a mother out there who has lost her son, he cannot come back because he’s dead, and another mother has to watch her sixteen year old son get locked away for 14 years, that is all of his teenage years behind bars.
I find it really ridiculous that because somebody called you a ‘pussy’ that one feel so disrespected that the only way to address this so-called ‘dissing’, street talk for the young people, that here again another child dies and one is jailed.
I cannot believe that parents are not teaching their children how to effectively deal with conflicts and that killing each other is not the way that society expect you to resolve a dispute.
So-called, ‘street cred’ is one of the most dangerous things that we now have in the 21st century, whereby young people believe that if you disrespect or cause their ‘street credibility to be damage in anyway, shape or form, that you deserve to die. Street credibility is something that is derived from ‘gangs’ and the amount of people who has lost their life because of these two words are reaching epidemic proportion and this must be dealt with before it really get completely out of control.
According to my nephews, they have informed me that the most disgusting thing that can happen to you on the street is losing ‘credibility’ as you are seen as a weakling and a ‘pussy’, as they say. This is so pathetic, but my nephew are aware that my sister would slap them into the next generation if they would do anything so stupid,as getting into conflict over ‘street cred’.
Well, parents need to be up on these phrase and they need to drill into their children, whether it is a boy or a girl, that ‘street cred’ is stupid and infantile and there are much better way of resolving an argument without having to resort to violence.
When my children were teenagers, I made it my duty to find out about all the ‘buzz’ word that were been used at the time and the manner in which they could affect my children. Then I made dam sure that I teach them that ‘stick and stones, may break their bones’, but words are cheep and cannot affect them.
Parents, the onus is on you to know what is happening out in the streets, to monitor you children online chat, to ensure that your children do not fall prey to the streets, because if you don’t then there are going to be more parents burying their kids and more parent seeing their children put into prison for the majority of their lives.
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