There are several people that I have talked with that have told me what they fear the most. Their fears range from the fear of spiders to the fear of snakes to the fear of inner city kids. They fear these inner city kids because of the thoughts placed in their heads by society and their parents. They fear these kids because they associate them with gang violence and shootings. Are there inner city kids associated with gang violence and shootings? Yes but what they fail to realize is that so are the suburban kids that they don’t fear because society has told them they don’t have to.


How is it a kid from an upscale school that decides it’ll be cool to drink and drive any better than a gang fight or late night shooting connected to an inner city kid? Some people believe that they can go to a basketball game at Ridgeway (public school) and risk getting shot in the parking lot, but the truth is you can go to a basketball game at MUS (private school) and risk getting run over in the parking lot by a kid who had one too many. Kids from upscale schools(at least ones that I have meant) tend to think that they are invincible. They act as if the rules of life and death don’t apply to them because their parents have a lot of money in the bank. I hate to break it to them (not really), but mommy and daddy can’t buy them out of a manslaughter charge...
The lives that are put at stake on a daily basis from teenagers who want to earn some more cool points for playing with the odds against death pretty much amounts to an inner city kid getting into a fight at school over gang related activities. But how come others don’t see the connection? Statistics shows that drunk driving kills eight teens a day. That is eight kids that will never reach their full potential; eight kids that will never grow to fulfill their dreams; eight kids that now have to pay the ultimate price because someone decided it would be an adventure to get behind the wheel with alcohol in their system.
