{"id":174543,"date":"2023-05-27T09:34:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=174543"},"modified":"2023-05-27T09:34:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:34:40","slug":"opinion-two-young-lives-wiped-from-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/opinion-two-young-lives-wiped-from-life\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Two Young Lives Wiped From Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two Young Lives Wiped From Life<\/strong><\/p>

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Real mothers are crying for the lives taken, one killed and the killer! Two handsome fellows, one clearly cared for and brought up to be kind and smiling.<\/p>\n

The other one, clearly a tough life raised him for the rough way of life, unsmiling and deadly, but some mother loves them both, and we are all crying for the two lives lost.<\/p>

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Lost in race as we love the nice-looking fair-skinned young man, the darkness of the deed envelopes the other one pictured against a dark background of crime and violence, and, if we were in the U.S. South we know a lynching would have taken place.<\/p>

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Suddenly Antigua has been plunged into dark realization of killing young men on our tiny island of 108 sq. miles, where there is nowhere to run, no state or borderline to escape, there is only jail in 1735 which is death in slow motion. We have lost two young men.<\/p>\n

Lost in an island which cares nothing for young people, and see their education only through edifices and books, young men for the most part do not know their fathers, there are no role models from whom trickle down male values which generate humanity; only toxic masculinity now being expressed through guns.<\/p>

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There is no champion pat on the back for our sons from their fathers, and sad to say this exists even in two parent households.<\/p>\n

The real man is missing in parenting, and our boys are exhibiting their failure of fathering.<\/p>

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When adults who are parents, choose to place young boys aged 13 to 17 in prison, in right next to the maximum security section before trial, it shows the lack of sensitivity in our Justice system and the failure of our Social Services.<\/p>

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Confused, we face the senseless rape of a woman who could be a young grandmother, committed by a 13 year old and other teenagers; we must face the signs that we have gang initiation taking place, and that is a very bad sign.<\/p>\n

Antigua has played around with ganglife before, and we thought we had overcome it when its powerful leaders moved to the next level of business and life.<\/p>\n

These teenagers are not mis-behaving within the corridors of mischief to which we are accustomed, this type of criminal activity is new, and signs of ganglife which must not be trivialized and coupled with \u2018normal\u2019 crime.<\/p>\n

In this emergency fight to pull back our youth from ganglife, we are all involved, unresolved, we all will be consumed!<\/p>\n

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