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HEALTH: Preachers Want an End to Houston’s Youth Violence
January 8th, 2009Black preachers in Houston are seeking ways to deal with the epidemic of youth violence in their communities, The Houston Chronicle reports. “We’re going to scream from the rooftop” until the politicians respond, said the Rev. Robert Jefferson, pastor of Cullen Missionary Baptist Church. Jefferson, who’s over special projects for Houston Ministers Against Crime, was speaking at news conference convened a day after Police Chief Harold Hurtt pleaded with area churches, schools, businesses and other groups to help him come up with a way to curtail the regularity of Black men killing one another. According to the Chronicle, the number of young Black men murdered in Houston jumped from 42 to 129 during the study period. “Success doesn’t just happen,” Hurtt said. “It takes a lot of work and concerted effort.” The Chronicle also cites a national study released last month, which found a 13-percent increase in the number of Black suspects in Houston homicides between 2000-01 and 2006-07. That was the largest percentage increase among 28 U.S. cities, according to the study by Northeastern University criminologists James Fox and Marc Swatt.
Hope and Care
Our youth are lacking two vital components for rationalization.
What would keep anyone from killing someone?
Either you care or you don’t. Either you have hope that things will get better or you don’t.
Talk to a killer. Ask them why they took a life. The most prevalent answer would be they “just didn’t care.”
And, somewhere in their dialogue with you, they’ll say the person had it coming, which allows you to see they didn’t have hope in them either.
If we seek to tighten the youths bonds with those in society who do care, the youths might more readily rationalize their possibilities through hope.
well put Sharlette… how do u suppose one inspires hope in a society, economy, and personalities are hopeless? Fatherless sons and motheless daughters? how do make our family units whole again?
Thank you, Antoinette.
First, you must believe.
Believe in people.
Believe that things can get better and will get better.
Fight the urge to give up with all of your might.
Talk to people…all people.
Find out what is needed and desired.
Formulate a plan and keep the solution(s) in focus.
Maintain contact with those in need.
Above all, you must care about the people involved,
care about your involvement in the situation,
and care about the outcome.
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