Phoenix

[kimberkit]

A kid at my school -- a likable freshman, a bit of a goofball, but a good kid -- was shot yesterday. He was selling CDs on 145th street. The kid who shot him was 13.

The NY Times did a writeup, as did the Daily News, but it will hardly make news for longer than 15 seconds, because urban kids are expected to shoot each other.

My colleagues and I grieved over this, but the prevailing attitude was, "it's been a few years since one of our kids was killed. We're lucky it's been this long."

Comments

[kizlj.livejournal.com]

:( that's really terrible. I'm so sorry for the school and family.

[sir-graeme.livejournal.com]

It can happen hundreds of times...it still doesn't make it any less of a tragedy. Times like these it's so maddening that life is taken as so much cheaper in certain places than others.

[mansikka.livejournal.com]

That's so hard to comprehend. I'm so sorry, Kim, for the school and for everyone involved in his life. The last paragraph of the NYT has a good point, too: racism is definitely evident insofar as which "missing" or "shot" cases make CNN headline news are concerned.