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romanic

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Sun Aug 23, 2015, 02:52 AM Aug 2015

Editorial: America broke its promise to #JamylaBolden

Enough.

Let Jamyla’s death touch a region’s heart. Let her be memorialized in the conversations about inequality in the greater St. Louis region that have been taking place in the past year. Let it not end with conversation. Let conversation become conversion.

Change is happening, but not nearly quickly enough.

We may never know who killed Jamyla, but that doesn’t mean we can’t find justice for a 9-year-old child who wanted to do better than her best.

A year after #Ferguson, the schools that serve its children are still underfunded and failing. The housing is still unequal and unsafe. Guns are rampant. Jobs are few. In a community where blindly fired bullets can kill a little girl in the safety of her home, hope is scarce. Justice is only a word.

Until St. Louis invests in its children — and it’s going to take a whole lot more than $26 million — the promise of a positive future will be trapped in the casket of a child.


http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/editorial-america-broke-its-promise-to-jamylabolden/article_db8fa5e1-677f-5bad-a354-b9c5f81a21ba.html

Cross-posted from GD. Very sad editorial that speaks on some harsh truths that affect the chances of our young black children succeeding from underfunded schools, rampant gun violence, and a sense of hopelessness that destroys these young lives. R.I.P. Jamyla.
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Editorial: America broke its promise to #JamylaBolden (Original Post) romanic Aug 2015 OP
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