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Permalink Reply by Derrick Whitley on November 18, 2009 at 4:49pm

This is from a book I've been working on for 18 months:


May 5, 2009


Dear Friend,


My generation is lost and the one that follows will be worse-this past weekend a young man (who I will not name) was hit by a car, brutally beaten, shot to death and then burned on Chicago’s south side. What has happened to us within the last 30 years that such a horrific act of violence can be taken out against a 15 year old? So-called experts would argue that drugs destroyed our communities and many families along the way. Some would blame it on a lack of education or so many young men growing up without a father in the home, which leads them to embrace crime and other acts of violence.

It seems that the generation I’m apart of and the one footsteps behind don’t value human life. If one studied the modern Civil Rights era he would find that as recent as 50 years ago people fought and died just to attend school now it is the complete opposite-we are killing each other at the end of the school day. We seem to embrace acts of violence and ignorance instead of being ashamed of it. However, I think the three-headed monster that I mentioned (drugs, education and single parent homes) play a minor role in this equation.

Drugs and alcohol have always been in the poorest communities and it is evidence of that in documentaries in regards to drug use and the effects drugs have in those communities. Crack cocaine was an entirely different beast, probably the worst of them all but it seems in many of the brutal killings right here in Chicago drugs don’t seem to be the deciding factor in those cases.

People of color or of a non-European background have always fought for equality especially as it relates to the public school system. We have historically been denied the same rights and education as our white counterparts but how many murders involving Blacks and Hispanics can be linked to segregation or the desegregation of the public school system?

Slaves, my ancestors, were always separated from each other whether they were sold to different slave masters or brutally killed-some never made it off the slave ships. The jail and prison system can’t be responsible for unnecessary acts of violence, the prison system is slavery but how many slaves actually killed each other on those plantations because their parents weren’t around?

I think the culprit responsible for what happened and continues to happen to my generation is the mass media. The media that once brought a generation together (i.e. coverage of Emmett Till, white hostility toward integration and police brutality) is tearing mine apart. We hate each other because of the images we see in the newspapers and on TV. Everyday Americans are told to fear each other and if nothing else, beware of the Negro.

Michael Moore’s film “Fahrenheit 9/11,” seems to support my argument as the film examined the difference between the Canadian media vs. American media. Not only does American media brainwash each group (i.e. Blacks, Hispanics, white’s and etc.) it turns each group against each other. We have been conditioned to hate each other to the point where a simple disagreement can turn into someone’s funeral.


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The teenager who was killed over the weekend was no exception. He was a young Mexican American male possibly killed by other Mexicans and could’ve been anyone’s child; he was someone’s son, friend, relative and neighbor. He was a human being not a wild animal running the streets but why treat him as such? We can’t blame this kind of violence on video games, guns, music, lack of education nor drugs-other countries have more of the same.

We see countless stories on the evening news and in print that depicts Blacks and Hispanics as nothing more then the dregs of society. We are made to believe and thought of as being poor, uneducated, disease ridden and simply inferior. From ABC to ESPN, from radio and print to the talk shows we are told that we are worthless and unfortunately we carry that burden with us wherever we go.

We are bombarded with these images so much so that it is embedded in us to fear each other, which ultimately leads to our destruction or a life taken. The media shapes us, it tells us what to think, who to support and what to do. It is powerful and it is viscous at the same time because my generation suffers because of it. 50 years ago going to school was worth dying for now my generation would rather embrace a sub-culture that is destroying us everyday.

The media manufactures criminals as they are taught to commit crimes to subsequently be warehoused in detention centers and county jails. Their fate rest in the penitentiary after a speedy trial and judged by those who are rarely their pears. Generations are destroyed because many of the men entering county jails and prisons become homosexuals. When they become free they return home to pollute their wives and girlfriend’s bodies with disease.

They become package deals for the state and used as slaves to work for next to nothing so that businesses can thrive off of cheap labor. That is the purpose of the media to turn us all against each other so that some rural back woods town can provide jobs for police, correctional officers, lawyers and judges (many of whom are white). We are a business to them and we are still picking cotton.

It seems we are only accepted when we mimic the lifestyle of an entertainer or athlete-anything else is unacceptable. It’s not the music, it’s not the fashion, it’s the images we see-that’s why I try not to watch the news on TV.


Sincerely,


Amil.










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