Maybe the BlackGangsta Entertainment Narrative

is not so healthy in urban environments where actual gangs exist on the street and prey on real-life children?

Maybe, if more people pushed back at the notion that Black lives are cheap entertainment fodder, as Hollywood movies and the East Coast West Coast rap world are successfully casting so many "fatherless" young B/black men in this glamorous tough-guy role, the urban subculture would be better able to protect even the littlest black lives.

Why?  Because surely she mattered. You'll never know her name, and she's gone at 7, but a culture that values these lives too over the biggest and most visible victims will help us grow into a country that values life over property, mamas over mammon...

Girl, 7, fatally shot inside vehicle at West Side McDonald’s drive-thru

MONDAY, APR 19

A 7-year-old girl died Sunday after she was shot inside a vehicle in a drive-thru lane at a McDonald’s restaurant on the city’s West Side, according to Chicago police.

Police at the scene used their squad car to rush the critically injured child to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead a short time later, police said.

At least today, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will reopen the high school doors for the first time since March 2020.  The lack of education has too many young people running the streets.  Add guns to the mix, and the result has been deadly.

Education, education, education...  

It's the only way out, America.  Put down your guns, and stop listening to the neocons telling us for so long it was in our national security interests to build schools for Afghan and Iraqi girls  (Don't send American soldiers to do God's work...We're not a religious state.)   America First.  Our own fellow Americns are in need of rescue, still. 

No wonder so many neocons are cashing in their chips and looking for nice, stable small towns and upstate safe places from whence they did not come to retreat to.  We will welcome them as brothers, as well.  But they must learn to practice peace, a practical responsible peace that does not have a monetary pricetag but will cost you greatly, nonetheless...

Listen Children to a story that was written long ago... 'Bout a kingdom on a mountain, and the valley folk below. On the mountain, was a Treasure!, buried deep beneath the stone, and the valley people swore they'd have it for their very own!  So the people of the valley sent a message up the hill, asking for the buried treasure, tons of gold, for which they'd kill... 

Came an answer, from the kingdom, with our brothers we will share, all the secrets of our mountain, all the riches buried there...

Now the valley cried with anger, "Mount your horses! Draw your swords!" And they killed the mountain peoples, so they'd won their just reward.  Now they stood beside the treasure, on the mountain, dark and red, turned the stone, and looked beneath it....

PEACE ON EARTH!  was all it read....

Go ahead and hate your neighbors, go ahead and cheat a "friend". Do it in the name of your God; you can always justify it in the end... But there won't be any trumpets blowing, come the judgement day, on the bloody morning after... One Tin Soldier Rides Away.

~Coven.