this is very true. Our youth need more positve role models and people in our communities, those who are able to vote have a civic as well as moral resposibility to help nurish and raise teens. It takes a village to raise a child, that saying has yet to fade out. We need to elect people who will represent us all year round, put pressure on them when they slip up and force them to provide us with the same resources in urban communities that are given to those in more upscale suburban neighborhoods. If we want more postive media than we need to do something about because we live in a freakin democracy and instead of talking about it, we need to do something.

There is power in numbers. we need to protest and actively DEMAND what we want, we elect a governing body to represent us, we pay their damn salaries so let these motherfcukers work for us. If we want our kids to respect us, than we better start making a more positve image for them to look up to. We as communities need to clean up our neighborhoods, look out for one another and be more of a participant in the lives of our youth. Stop shunning them (us rather) and give us some place to go, resources and postive images to aspire to.