Juvenile shoots at two juvenile girls in Cary (Charlotte, Star: low income, apartment complex)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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The crazy thing is this happened on Monday and somehow it’s just making news. Why is stuff like this not a big deal? Why’d it take the mother speaking out to make the news?
The WRAL link you posted was originally from Thursday morning, but it was light on details, just two juveniles involved in a shots fired, no injuries. It's been updated several times since then.
Feel like I saw coverage elsewhere, but don't immediately see it.
The WRAL link you posted was originally from Thursday morning, but it was light on details, just two juveniles involved in a shots fired, no injuries. It's been updated several times since then.
Feel like I saw coverage elsewhere, but don't immediately see it.
Kids shooting 9 rounds at other kids should be big news, not a three days later type of story.
Kids shooting 9 rounds at other kids should be big news, not a three days later type of story.
That information wasn't initially available. More people have since come forward to discuss what happened and video has surfaced. Now it's big news.
But yes, local news has suffered greatly. I'm currently looking at the N&O front page with a fairly prominent "Is Publix Open on Labor Day This Year?" story right next to a week-old "Riverdale’s Madelaine Petsch and More Stars Host Blowout B-Days for Pets" story.
That information wasn't initially available. More people have since come forward to discuss what happened and video has surfaced. Now it's big news.
You’re telling me no neighbors in an apartment complex in Cary told police there were several rounds fired? The police didn’t know they were all juveniles?
The crazy thing is this happened on Monday and somehow it’s just making news. Why is stuff like this not a big deal? Why’d it take the mother speaking out to make the news?
We cannot normalize these kind of things.
The news reporting really isn't the issue. The issue is that obtaining a gun is easy for anyone to do. And for the record, there are neighborhoods in our state with multiple gunshots everyday and most of these incidents don't ever make it onto the news.
When I hear about incidents such as this one; it makes me cringe a little because there are SEVERAL risk factors at play....
✓ Low household income
✓ Mother is the head of household (father absent)
✓ Sexually active teens (I'm talking under 15 years old)
✓ Teen drug usage
✓ Teen alcohol consumption
✓ Academic struggles
There's a lot more, but I'm trying my best to keep my thoughts politically correct here.
What I will say is that I'm a 43 year old black male who grew up in a predominantly black low income public housing complex in Charlotte. Against all odds, I'm now the owner of a small 4 truck fleet of 18 wheelers. There are peers of mine (who still live in my former "hood" of South Side Homes) who are scared to death that the gentrification monster (aka South End's rapid growth) is about to price them out with $800,000 townhomes.
When we (my peers and I) were teens, I was taking school seriously; they were skipping and getting high. When I vowed to marry the person that I began to have sex with; they were making babies with multiple girls. Today, my wife and I can afford two of those $800,000 townhouses that my peers are so nervous about. It's a good thing that cell phones weren't a thing back in my day, because I have peers who would have fired shots over a girl and a stupid phone.
What we're up against when it comes to youth violence is cultural. By cultural, I don't mean that one race of humans are doing these types of crimes. I just know that low income predominantly black neighborhoods (like the one that I grew up in) has indeed "normalized" dealing with their problems by any means necessary (including deadly force). By the age of 13, I already knew that getting into a simple youth fight could result in my mother's apartment being shot up; so I learned to walk away or run away with my mouth shut. People who have little (and I mean generationally have little) have a tendency not to value their lives or the lives of others. This is true of any ethnicity of human being.
So with all of that context out of the way, seeing this news story and the black mother (with no mentioning of the father/husband) on camera made me want to cry. Before there ever was a shooting towards her daughter, where was the father figure who was supposed to be teaching "his little princess" how to choose the right type of young man? Assuming that the father is indeed absent, why is that the case? Is he dead, is he a deadbeat, or is he a good father who is doing well and his bitter EX is withholding his daughter from him (while also brainwashing her against him)? And are the courts going to give him custody of that girl now that she has been shot at in the mother's care?
These are the type of news stories that makes me angry on so many levels. As tragic as the shooting was, there were probably a long list of dominos that toppled long before the gunshots were fired. I'll leave it here because I've already said more than I had originally intended.
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