Monthly Archives: November 2009

I was just reading this Cleveland Plain Dealer article on Cleveland.com about two brothers who was just walking home  when some gang called the Lakeshore Boys shot and killed one of the brothers and wounded another.

Brandon Young and his younger brother knew they were in trouble when they heard the homemade rap song of the Lakeshore Boys blaring from the car that had eased up beside them.The song is the gang’s calling card. They played it just before shooting Brandon in the back Saturday, said his brother, Shaquille Perry, 16. Brandon — a senior at Early College High School at John Hay — died early Thursday.

I never understood that. Why is it the good ones that get killed and the world is left with people full of hatred and evil? If there is a God and he so-called figured that his/her/it need him up there as his/her/it’s “angel”; I would have to say God is pretty damn cruel, and selfish. The people who need to be wiped off the face of this earth are Child Molesters, Rapists, Predators and Gangs.

“Brandon shoved me and said, ‘Run,’ and I did,” Shaquille said. “I ran to the side of a house and heard two more shots and the gun clicking. Then I heard Brandon say, ‘Where’s my little brother?’ I ran over to him and saw a hole in his back.”

You will always read in an article when someone young gets killed how he/she was a good kid and that he/she never bothered anyone. Why is that? Why can’t I read about a truck load of child molesters getting stuck on a train track right as the gates go down and a few seconds before the train comes? Life isn’t fair but this is really unfair, kids with a future; life  get cut short because of some stupid ass gang.

I live in Cleveland, Ohio and this is what we called “news” on a daily basis here. Most if not all news like this brings to tears to my eyes, not sad ones but angry ones. I’m so sick of this shit and no amount of change in the justice system or no matter how many law enforcement you get to patrol a dangerous neighborhood; you’re always going to hear about an innocent kid getting killed.

I don’t think I’ll be having kids. I don’t want my kids growing up knowing that all to life is to watch your back and don’t say the wrong things to the wrong people. Having to live in fear and sleep with caution because a bullet just might come whizzing through your wall wounding you.

What’s so pathetic is, recent studies showed that Cleveland, Ohio is one [top 10] of the safest cities in the nation. How did we manage to get on such a list? Cleveland, Ohio is the opposite of safe. You can’t even sit at a stop light without someone killing you and taking your vehicle for a joy-ride. Hell, you can’t walk up and down your street in any time of the day when you got people like Anthony Sowell prowling the streets, luring you into their home, just to rape you, strangle you with a cord, then burying you in the backyard or stuffing you behind a wall. Yes, all the things I just mentioned has happened in the “one of the most safest cities in the nation” here in Cleveland, Ohio; the mistake on the Lake.

“Brandon was a hardworking, dedicated student that was focused on his studies and preparing for college,” said schools spokeswoman Angela Burford. “Brandon was seeking out various universities to apply to. Brandon’s death is a sad loss for the John Hay community.”

This boy was going to be one of the good guys, but because of it he had to lose his life. I wanted to scream to those Christians who gave me such a hard time about me being an Atheist; “WHERE’S YOUR GOD NOW?!”, I really wanted to. But that wouldn’t do nobody any good. It’s just sick that they think Atheism is the reason good people die. Which is even sadder because someone has said that to me and then pointed at me and called me a murder. This boy did not deserve to die. I just cannot imagine what the mother is going through now.

“These Lakeshore Boys are a violent bunch,” he said. “I know for a fact that they have been connected to five homicides.”

I just hope they find these cowards with guns and give them life in jail. This senseless violence has to stop but I know when that day happen if it will ever happen, I’ll be dead and gone.

[Read about Brandon and his Brother Here]