I got away with a lot of things as a teeneager with my mother’s foot planted squarely in my behind….imagine if it was not there at all! LOL!

And I totally agree that throwing these girls in adult prison is as wrong or worse than what the girls themselves did.

The government does not create all of these stories and songs about pimpin’ and hoin’, our people are doing it, and WE ARE BUYING IT, and letting our children listen to it…

The government did not make us buy a DTV or make us PAY for denigrating stations like BET, WE CALLED AND INSTALLED THESE CHANNELS OURSELVES, and PAY EXTRA FOR THEM!!!

Amen to Ariela in saying let’s take back our communities, our schools, our pride, our legacy, and show our children a different way.

LET’S TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for ourselves, our neighborhoods, our schools, and ourselves, and STOP BLAMING OTHERS FOR THE STATE THEY ARE IN!!!

Let’s stop teaching our kids to blame others and take responsibility for themselves. Let’s create a world that we are proud to live in, and a world that we are proud and happy to leave for our kids.

this is a community issue.

thanks to all the people that are working in our communities to help our babies. i would encourage each of us to make sure that we are giving of ourselves, not only to our own kids, but to every person that we come in contact with.

i created Bigger Than Your Block as a way to share information about money management with youth. as others have stated, giving our kids a way to get and keep money is way to encourage them to start thier own legal businesses and have pride in thier communities.

if anyone is in Los Angeles, San Diego, or Philly/New York and would like to work together on a community project let me know.

PEACE,
Shay Olivarria
President
Bigger Than Your Block

Any child that has the sense and the know how to hustle money, get hoes(excuse the expression), rent an apartment, and then be intelligent enough to know and admit a problem is not a child who belongs in a correctional facility. Because we all know that those facilities do not correct anything, they only make matters worse.

I am going to step out on a limb and say “Be like Sister Sasha” give up some of your time to our youth. I always hear the elders say, “it takes a village.” But the villagers are not responding. WE the people are responsible for this. The government told you to get DTV or else and WE did. Instead of being courageous and defiantly saying no. lets just turn the damn thing off. The government poisons OUR neighborhoods with fast food chains and half empty grocery stores. Instead of standing up against the toxins, we feed it to our children and ourselves on a daily basis. Not once have I heard of a community demanding a well stocked clean and healthy grocer for their neighborhood. Instead of monitoring the activities of our children, we buy them cell phones, and two ways, pagers, and the internet.

When will it stop? and When will we come together as a community STAND, TAKE ACTION, and SAY NO MORE? WE ARE TAKING BACK OUR CHILDREN, OUR SCHOOLS, OUR PRIDE, OUR TRADITION, OUR LEGACY. DON’T CROSS THESE TRACKS UNLESS YOU ARE BRINGING SOMETHING POSITIVE; BECUASE IF YOU ARE NOT STAY THE HELL AWAY.

PeaZe