Friday, September 21, 2012
The Interrupters
My biggest reaction to the interrupters was that I really couldn't wrap my head around how much violence actually goes on. In one part of the documentary someone said that there were 7 shootings in 30 hours, hearing that just blew my mind. With that much violence and death I don't understand why the younger children didn't seem to be as scared as they should have been. The violence seemed to be all consuming, even people that weren't in the gangs or the wrong click, were getting shot and hurt. I liked the quote "you can judge it, but it's not what you do in silence," because that explains basically what everyone on the outside looking in, is doing. The people that aren't in that community and some of the people in the community, like parents, they know what is going on but they don't do anything about it. The parents and relatives grieve when their 8 year old little girl gets killed in crossfire but they didn't try to really stop the violence in the community to protect their little girl.
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I think the families don't want to get mixed in with the violence and they don't want to tell the police to be labeled as a snitch
ReplyDeleteI agree I was shocked by how many shootings took place in such a short amount of time.
ReplyDeleteI lived in a neighborhood with lots of violence in Dallas and there many parents do get involved, often at great risk to themselves. But there is also a tendancy with good reason to keep your head low at times. No one family or segment of society can do it all by themselves with that much violence around. The parents, community members, police, schools, and community activists have to work together. When that happens, the culture can change and young people can and will make better choices. But none of it is easy, and it takes brave people and brave kids to go walk a different road.
ReplyDeleteI was also shocked by how many shootings there were in such a short amount of time. It's a real eye opener.
ReplyDeleteIt's truely amazing how many shootings are going on and not very many people in the world hear about it.
ReplyDeleteThe amount of violence in those neighborhoods is crazy its exponentail when one person gets shot that persons freinds get revenge and it seems like it just keeps growing
ReplyDeleteThe seven shootings in 30 hours statistic really struck me too. I just couldn't imagine seven families dealing with that much devastation.
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