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 recently met Dr. Sharnnia Artis , author of Moving From Ordinary to Extraordinary: The Teen’s Guide to High School Success. Dr. Artis holds a Ph.D in Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is a wonderfully gifted woman who is involved in her community on a local and national level. Since I work with youth, I’ve added her book to my reading list and look forward to digesting what she has to say.
If you work with youth or have children of your own who are getting ready for high school or are already in high school, then Dr. Artis’ book will definitely help them to rise up and reach their full potential - and help you with influencing them towards greatness.
Any time I’m out in the community the question is often in my mind, how can we help our young black men? Just over a month ago I was on the shuttle between Grand Central Station and 42nd Street and Times Square. A young black male got on the train, dressed like he was going to an interview. He had an apple pie from McDonald’s, which he proceeded to eat. When he was done, he threw the box and bag on the floor underneath his seat.
Just wanted to share the short synopsis for second book, my upcoming novel, SpeedSuit Powers - to be released in June. Enjoy and let me know what you think.
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SpeedSuit Powers A Novel by Allen Paul Weaver III
Imagine moving from the suburbs to the inner city and colliding with a bully who’s bigger than you, stronger than you and faster than you. What do you do?
Curtis Powers is living this life! Trying to pursue his dreams while avoiding his nemesis, Treyshawn Jinkins – who seems to exist just to make his days miserable!
What can we do to help our young Black men? This morning, while waiting for my train, I ran into a young man I know. We hadn’t seen each other for a while and as we caught up on things, he admitted the struggles that he faced: to make a real change in his life that would take him away from illegal activities.
