By Trymaine Lee
Two alleged gang members (click here) have been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of Hadiyah Pendleton, the 15-year-old Chicago honor student killed little more than a week after marching in Barack Obama’s inaugural parade.
Police say Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, opened fire on Pendleton and a group of friends last month in retaliation for a shooting last year in which Williams had been injured.
Ward confessed to police that he and Williams had mistaken the group for the rivals in the earlier shooting, according to police....
How are minorities suppose to wade through the vast dichotomy of violence. The USA government expects them to understand the difference between gang violence and police violence. It isn't that simple to dispel fears when both the police and criminals bring about the same end result.
Both are authorities.
The police are the authorities, but, the gun toting gang members are their own type of authority and our minorities are exposed to a world without definition.
