I am waking up and going to bed asking the same question: What is going on, America?
Some years ago Motown legend Marvin Gaye sang a song simply titled, “What’s Going On.” You remember him singing, “can’t find no work can’t find no job my friend; money is tighter than it has ever been.”
The same applies today, especially for African-Americans like me.
Yet a more penetrating and profound question today is what is going on with our Black boys?
When I see Black boys at the bus stop waiting to get on the school bus doesn’t necessarily mean they will return from school safely.
Just a few days ago a young black boy in Jacksonville, Florida was shot to death at the bus stop waiting to go to school. He was 16 years old. What could a boy have done so bad that he deserved to die? What’s going on!
These are perilous times for young Black boys. If you are an honor roll student or an aspiring honor roll student you may get shot in what I call random acts of violence. In other words you may just be in the way.
