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Gunfire erupts in the South End
By adamg on Tue, 01/26/2016 - 10:46pm
Shortly before 10:30 p.m., residents and police officers both heard repeated gunshots in an area stretching from behind the Blackstone School on Washington Street to O'Day Playground on W. Newton Street.
One person on Washington Street reported he'd been fired at. Police recovered shell casings at Washington Street and Mystic Street.
Nearby residents reported hearing about 10 shots.
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Getting shot at
counts as a microagression, right?
Or does being in the path of the bullet count as a microagression against the shooter?
Or against the bullet? Can't go around marginalizing the most leaded members of society, can we now?
My trolling has a point: given a finite amount of political appetite for tearing down segments of society so that they may be built up better, I submit that there are more worthy targets than high school principles at the better schools in town.
We should be more concerned
We should be more concerned about a more aggressive approach to keeping the shooters off our streets, a more aggressive approach to communicating with law enforcement so that they can capture the murderers so that families can see justice for the wrongful death of their family member/friend/relative, and a more aggressive approach to help kids do better in school, stay in school, and not be ashamed to tell future job interviewers that they attended that school. Gangs are getting bolder. Communities need to get bolder, too. Neighborhood meetings and chatter obviously don't help
Too many times prosecutors
Too many times prosecutors are willing to make giveaway short sentence deals with dangerous felons rather than go to trial for the full possible sentence. This needs to stop. Too many prosecutors are more concerned with their schedule, padding their win column, and political aspirations than doing their job in the best interests of public safety.
Your trolling has no point
Please detail how, exactly, this gunfire in the South End would not have happened if only kids at a high school in the Longwood Medical Area hadn't protested things going on at that school.
Unrelated to that.. but maybe
Unrelated to that.. but maybe maybe MAYBE if the residents of the South End cared more about the rampant gunfire in their neighborhood than getting a Wine Riot (or whatever it was), that would be a good start.
YES!
Because it's obvious one cannot be concerned with more than one thing at a time. Great observation.
South End Residents do care
Did you already forget about this:
http://www.universalhub.com/2015/south-end-meeting-tonight-gun-violence
It'd be interesting to see
It'd be interesting to see which meeting had better attendance.
The gun violence meeting was jam-packed
Not sure how full the wine-riot meeting was.
In the long view
if children are taught challenging authority is noble, many will miss the key corollary that the challenger should be in the right.
The hubub over microaggressions, to me, admittedly from the outside, seems like it's a little one-sided in terms of teaching the balance between respect for society and authority (in the abstract) and suspicion of authority.
So no, there is no direct causal link. For a causal link, or part of one at least, you'd need to go back twenty years to see what it is that the shooter was taught in school and what balance was struck then.
And you'd need to go forward twenty years to see how the kids at BLS take the stuff there and incorporate it into their lives. I'm not accusing them of being wannabe gangsters by any means, but let me see if I can explain my thinking this way:
Let's say the school caves. Then the (best possible) lesson is: challenge injustice everywhere, no matter how small. If the school doesn't cave, then the lesson can be: roll with the punches, and don't sweat the small stuff. I don't have a crystal ball, but bringing my own experiences and prejudices to the table, I see the second lesson as more valuable and the first lesson as a recipe for creating yet more social justice warriors who have the regrettable tendency to make excuses for inner-city violence out of what I can only guess is some sense that The Man shouldn't preach down to poor black youth.
And by the way, that strawman I'm putting up is something that I've seen come out even on these forums, where more than once a conversation is shut down with the excuse that white males' opinions are less valuable because they're priveleged, or subconsciously racist, or whatever.
So that's my point: get hung up on the small stuff, and you teach kids that the small stuff is worth getting hung up on, and that's the low-handing fruit. But here we have an honest to goodness example of big stuff that keeps on happening, and like I said, if as a society we have enough emotional and political energy to do one thing, which should we do?