Educating The Killer to be a lawyer...doctor....President if he decides!!

I find it hard to log into facebook anymore. Every news feed seems to contain a "R.I.P" message dedicated people who have died. When I see these statuses I feel the need to dig a little deeper into the cause of death. I normally gasp for air when I see that these people have been murdered. It's one thing to hear about a death but even tougher to know that someone willingly took the life of someone else.

Everyday closer to my degree in education is a breath of fresh air. I continuously play with the thought that I could be a super teacher and save future children from dying. I see the education of people as a whole as an opportunity to help the world or at least save a life. A lot of young people have died over the years due to crimes in the neighborhood. Many people may look at is as niggas killing niggas, thugs killing thugs and so on. But in my eyes its doctors killing lawyers, preachers killing teachers, the cure to cancer killing the cure to AIDS!

Truth be told our black children are expected to only make it from their front door to the corner. But this reality can be stopped with more positive role models, more mentors and best of all more black educators. The problem exists that black children are being given up on before they reach the age of ten. We see troubled children and leave them in their trouble instead of grasping a piece of their reality. In the present school system a child's teacher may not be able to relate to the problems in a black home. So at times the sign of child just needing someone who cares about their success is ignored because the child is considered the worst kid in the classroom.

Hearing news of killings in the neighborhood furthers my quest to educate. I'll reach this beginning of this journey soon. I just wish I could pause time to reach it and prevent the doctor from killing the lawyer.