Shed so many tears! By: Omar Black

The environment Ronald is growing up in causes a different mother to shed so many tears every Saturday. Every Saturday a different teen is buried and a different mother is left without their child. The constant gun violence between the different gangs has every single parent in uproar and no one including the local law enforcement is doing anything to stop it. It's upsetting to many but no one is willing to step up to the plate to get the violence to cease. The cops only appear after a murder has already taken place and they leave shortly after the victim's body is removed from the crime scene. The police presence is nonexistent and that just gives the teens in Ronald's community more of a reason to not care about walking with their guns because they don't have to worry about being stopped and harassed by the police that doesn't even exist in their community. Most of the teens walk with their guns revealed basically letting it be known they don't care about anything because they live their lives on the edge. Ronald wants to escape his reality but he's surrounded by violence and death. On the evening of June 19 he found himself surrounded by members of his brother's rival gang. With a knife held to his face and other members flashing him their guns has him thinking just how the hell is he going to get out of this situation. "We're gonna make sure your brother remembers that his actions has consequences and you're gonna be the person who suffers from your brother's actions..... to be continued!