Baltimore, MD, of course. This situation was over a customer cutting in line in front of another customer at a gas station convenience store. Geezus Kreyest.
Leaders in our urban communities should teach de-escalation skills to those they are charged with mentoring. It needs to start as early as the grade school playground. Too many young lives are being lost for this to not be THE primary focus of those who consider themselves mentors and leaders. That said, if they actually are teaching it and making it a priority, then they apparently suck at being mentors and they need to defer to those who actually know WTF they are doing.
As you know, I come with solutions to problems or I don't come at all. I wonder if the next step is to expand programs like Big Brothers Big Sisters to pair urban core youths with successful, suburban families for mentorship? I would suggest that the participating families must complete de-escalation training before being paired with a "little." It's possible that an outsider's perspective might be exactly what our urban youths really need to succeed in life in order to avoid situations like the one in this video. I also believe these programs should expand the ages of those they'll allow to participate. We're seeing extraordinary high rates of death in the 18-27 age group of urban males. Let's not shun those older than 18.
Leaders in our urban communities should teach de-escalation skills to those they are charged with mentoring. It needs to start as early as the grade school playground. Too many young lives are being lost for this to not be THE primary focus of those who consider themselves mentors and leaders. That said, if they actually are teaching it and making it a priority, then they apparently suck at being mentors and they need to defer to those who actually know WTF they are doing.
As you know, I come with solutions to problems or I don't come at all. I wonder if the next step is to expand programs like Big Brothers Big Sisters to pair urban core youths with successful, suburban families for mentorship? I would suggest that the participating families must complete de-escalation training before being paired with a "little." It's possible that an outsider's perspective might be exactly what our urban youths really need to succeed in life in order to avoid situations like the one in this video. I also believe these programs should expand the ages of those they'll allow to participate. We're seeing extraordinary high rates of death in the 18-27 age group of urban males. Let's not shun those older than 18.
