What’s happening to our youth? In California, a 15 year old girl was gang raped for 2.5 hours.  What’s worse is that other youth watched, participated and did nothing to help her.  What’s happening to our society, where we don’t get involved to help someone else?  At the very least, we should realize that there may come a time when we will be the victim and need someone to step in to help us. 

Here’s the article from CNN.Com.  And here’s a video from CNN.com:

 What are your thoughts about what happened and what we can do to make a difference?

I am holding in my hands for the first time, the very first copy of my new book, Speedsuit Powers . It’s a teen fiction novel where the main character, Curtis, is the new kid at a new school dealing with bully issues.  It releases this December.  My prayer, hope and desire is that this book will help to positively impact urban youth culture.  That it will inspire, motivate and educate youth to see their lives differently and make new choices (or stand by decisions they’ve already made) which lead to true and lasting success.

The Death of Derrion Albert

When I heard about the beating death of Derrion Albert - an honor roll student with his eyes on college, who stayed out of trouble - I was saddened that we as African Americans would do this to ourselves and have such blatant disregard for the life of others. Let me stop here and say, that after having traveled to Africa, China and Europe and having done some studying of various genocides around the globe, the underlying root issue of violence is not skin color - but the faulty condition of the human heart and mind which frames and contextualizes our daily circumstances to promote ourselves at the expense - and even detriment of another. I need to make this distinction, because there are those who believe that black people are simply savages. This couldn’t be further from the truth as the issue is that under certain conditions, people have a tendency to act savagely.