Despair plus guns equals death for too many youth in Harrisburg | Social Views
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Too many youth in Harrisburg have simply given up. They’ve lost trust in a society they see as racist, that they believe wants to crush them, handcuff them, throw them in jail or worse – see them dead in the street before they’re 18.
It’s a sad but true consensus among those who should know that too many youth in Harrisburg have no hope of ever achieving the dream that is supposed to be guaranteed to every American.
Nativity School Headmaster Lavelle Muhammad put it bluntly: too many Harrisburg youth see only two alternatives: “fight or flight . . . and they’re choosing to fight.”