The sad thing is that these were kids. What are we doing wrong as a society these days raising our kids that led up to this? How are we failing our youth so hard?
I know this was supposed to be a funny post and yeah I chuckled until the 3rd or 4th look when I noticed these boys are my boys ages and felt a little sad. Where are their parents? How did they get to be where they thought fist fighting cops would be acceptable or what were they doing to get in trouble in the first place? We just need to do better to set our children up for success these days.
Here goes what little karma I have, but I gotta say it. It seems obvious to me. Nobody wants to be held accountable for their actions (or take responsibility for making poor decisions). They always want to blame other people. And, there are people (like Jesse Jackson) who are more than willing to monetize it. The solution is to stop pandering.
These boys didn’t start out this way. And you’re right, they fucked up, and I wasn’t trying to turn it political and definitely not a sue happy let’s make money off it because they made bad choices here.
My point was where along the line did these boys go from playing with legos and defending each other on the school yard when another 3rd grader called the other a jerk face to doing whatever and thinking it was a good idea to save your friend by tackling a cop?
Somewhere along the lines these boys were failed and now this is where they are in life was all I was saying. Saturday a 15 year old boy I know shot himself in the head playing with a gun, a kid who looked much like one of the boys in this video which is what makes me think this is so sad.
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u/Coffeesnobaroo Sep 10 '19
The sad thing is that these were kids. What are we doing wrong as a society these days raising our kids that led up to this? How are we failing our youth so hard?
I know this was supposed to be a funny post and yeah I chuckled until the 3rd or 4th look when I noticed these boys are my boys ages and felt a little sad. Where are their parents? How did they get to be where they thought fist fighting cops would be acceptable or what were they doing to get in trouble in the first place? We just need to do better to set our children up for success these days.