Article Response by Sonya

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Article Reading (Attack on Homeless Rise, …)

            The article that I read was how the youth of our nation are not educated as well as they should be on the topic of homelessness.  They are attacking unhoused individuals and calling it fun, or like in the article they called it a sport. This is wrong on so many leaves. The boy age 18 who has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for second degree murder the lighter sentence of the four young men.  He said that he regretted doing it and even tried to stop his three friends. The speaker’s bureau in that state has opened a lot more places and they are working with the school system to educate and explain that the biggest population of homeless people is families.  This is due to a group of 10 and 12 year olds attacking a group of homeless people sleeping under a bridge.  One of the 10 year olds picked up a cement block and smashed in one of the man’s heads stated a police officer after viewing the security camera that the kids were caught on. This kind of violence is so wrong and incorrect. What would bring a 10 – 12 year old to drop/throw a rock into another human beings face.  This is why theses states are working with the speakers bureau to educate children in elementary schools all the way into college and higher to show that anyone could end up on the streets. Most people on the streets are well educated people, they are families, and a lot of them served our country and fought for our lives. The main point of this article was to show that not everyone deserves what they get and to treat another human as a toy is not right. Children shouldn’t be going to jail for murder and they shore shouldn’t be beating/killing homeless people. This all goes back to video games, today’s society, and they way we treat teens and young adults. They have way more power and they get it all from the media. But if we use it to show that everyone is the same and they could be the person sleeping under the bridge and getting their face bashed in, that will be when the world will change.