Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Where are they going to play?

In a normal society, at 17 when you meet children playing on the street you join in and play or just wave and pass. A 17yr old boy went to Skielik informal settlement and started shooting at the kids together with their parents. What kind of a society are we living in today? The reports state that he was accompanied by someone, probably white. As a result of the shooting four people died. The youngest being three months old. Innocent people died for no apparent reason. I am not inciting racism, I just want to know what those poor black people have done, to deserve such a punishment.

People living in informal settlement are poor and they are constantly brutalised by the conditions they live under, on top of that they are terrorised by boys as young as seventeen, seventeen... seventeen damn, damn idiot. The reports also state that in 2003 this same idiot was convicted of murder, but the sentence was suspended due to age( I think it's because his father is a farmer)

Other people are saying, we must not be quick in saying it was racially motivated. If it was not, why didn't he start shooting at home or why didn't he shoot the person accompanying him. He opted to shoot at poor innocent people who happened to be black. This idiot was only born in 1990, who taught him that the people with dark skin deserve to die. At fifteen he has already started terrorising black people.

If kids are shot while they are playing others in the hands of their mothers, who is going to protect them? Where are they going to play?

I am deeply disturbed by the facts of this incident. I condemn those killings.Let the law protect the people; poor or rich, educated or illiterate.

My sincere condolences to the families that lost their loved ones.
May their souls rest in peace.