this letter - Youth Today

are and do! Let them know that you no longer want to Destroy your Community, but
instead help Build it into a much more amicable environment, to Create that sense of
safety and security for our little Brothers and Sisters who are yet to young to even
understand what it is that's going on around them... To Build and Fix their Playgrounds
and Parks, so that they may enjoy the life many of us never had OUR YOUTH!
It is only then that Crime, Violence, Drugs, Guns, and Gangs would drop to its lowest
levels!
We have been Destroying our Communities, Our Youth, and Our Families for too long
now... We have been Destroying our Parks and Playgrounds, our Schools and Youth
Centers, Homes and Neighborhoods, Streets and even our Cars and more... it's time to
make a change... it's time to show and prove to them that we are not the LOWLNES
that they perceive us to be... that we can change for the better, and for the better WE
WILL!!! It's time for us all to become the people they thought we would never be, and to
show them that we will never become the LOWLNES they have always perceived us to
be!
Today is our chance... to not only prove them wrong- but to be an example onto them
and others as well... Our Youth need good Role Models in their Lives- People who will
bring out their Talents, Potential and Skills. We MUST show them how to Lead and Live
Positive and Productive Lives! That there are other alternatives in life other than Selling
Drugs... Committing Crimes... Violence and Gangs!!!!
We must bring out the positive attributes that lies within each and every one of them, by
being that perfect example onto them...and we must always remember, that. .."[T]he
main weapon against crime.. .is [E]ducation"!
We have,been granted an opportunity...and it is one we cannot afford to throwaway or
misuse in any form, shape, or way...This opportunity r am talking about can only come
from within...r call it the opportunity of HOPE! A Hope that can and will bring about
change! "[A]nd if we are willing to put our [H]earts and [M]inds and [B]obies to the
challenge, we can create [H]ope.
"[H]ope for those :who might aspire to become [E]ngineers, [A]ttourney's, [T]eacher's
or [E]iltrepreneurs- not just [B]asketball [P]layers or [R]ap [S]tars or [S]treet [H]ustlers
or [D]rug [D]ealers.
'[H]ope for those who, right now, see that their chance of spending time injail are greater
than their opportunity to spend time in college.
"[H]ope for young women who see that their chance of having a high school pregnancy is
greater than their chance of getting a high school diploma.
"[H]ope for young inner-city men who see that their chance of dying by a gunshot is
greater than their chance ofliving in a decent neighborhood in a house oftheir own."
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