Saturday, June 6, 2009

Police Probe Latest Homicide

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Nkrumah said...

I am not surprised by this latest murder nor the disappointed response of the residents of our so called "crime hot spots", nor MP Richard Fredericks disowning responsibility. While I do not hold Richard Frederick personally responsible for the actions of unconscious and marginalized youth in a space and time that has become conducive to the ripening of crime, I think he must accept ownership of his naivety in addressing the problem. This nonsense of basketball, boatrides and spending money bring Christian Evangelists to address the problem of which crime is merely symptomatic is passed naive, shallow and bankrupt of perspective. Crime is response, albeit unconscious of years of neglect, inequality and marginalization and no amounts of naivety can remove that reality. At best those who exist in communities where the problems express themselves as crime should come to an understanding of the real roots and dimensions of the problem and their response to it; they need to come to a position of critical reflection and consciousness through which they can deal with the issue. At least, we can have a policy shift which addresses the issue of inequality and marginalization, not through charity but through real empowerment and not those cheap efforts at pacifying persons who respond to legitimate problems in the structure and direction of the society. recently, having listened to a speech by Black psychologist Dr. Na'im Akbar, I think he would have been a thousand times better investment than the Christian Evangelist Joel Osteen who the MP invested in. Perhaps he is confined by his naivety. The problem of which crime in so called "hot spots" is a symptom has other symptoms such as the unconscious privileged members of our society we overprivileged status mirrors in distorted form the underprivileged status of those who are defined as the problem. Sadly these unconscious and desensitized ones are those who have the biggest voices. Waking up might be a good treatment for this society(as with most of the West and its victims).

June 7, 2009 at 9:48 AM
Anonymous said...

To put it in plain words,Sweet st.lucie is going to to dogs,police can't do anything,cause if they get rid of those rotten eggs commiting the murders the public cry foul or they might end up in jail(de callabouse)gone are the days when a fight was settle with a few punches and that was it.I miss the old days

June 10, 2009 at 12:31 AM

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