For the most part, I think if you’re reading this blog then your life is pretty damn good. Normally a non-compassionate person (I do try though…) when it comes to situations like Jennifer Hudson’s I can’t fathom the horror, sorrow and fear she’s experiencing right now- and even more so for her sister.
Julian King, 7, has been missing since the Friday slayings of his grandmother and uncle in the home they shared.
CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. authorities investigating the shooting deaths of Jennifer Hudson’s mother and brother were searching for the missing 7-year-old nephew of the Oscar-winning actress.
A suspect in the deaths was in custody Friday night, but young Julian King had not been seen since the bodies of Darnell Donerson, 57, and Jason Hudson, 29, were found Friday afternoon.
A family member entering Donerson’s South Side home Friday afternoon found the woman shot on the living room floor. Responding officers later found Hanson shot in the bedroom, police said.
At least one of the victims suffered defensive wounds, said authorities who described the shooting as domestic violence
I heard about it when I was channel surfing and ran across E! Oddly the only tragedy I heard on the “real” news was “Oh and did I mention that on my way to work I saw all the jack-o-lanterns on my block were smashed?” to which the co-anchor replied, “What is wrong with people these days?” to that I repeated the co-anchors question as I flipped the channel in disgust. People dying in our country by another persons hand- children starving and being beaten in secret by those who are supposed to be caring for them and on the news they comment about what has been going on since people had begun to carve jack-o-lanterns.
What shiny moment of time are people referring to when making those statements? Was there any golden years where men didn’t beat their wives, wives didn’t beat their kids, neighbors didn’t rob neighbors blind after screwing their spouse and bordering states/countries/countries from afar/neighboring tribes etc weren’t trying to push their agendas or fight for territory? Was there one perfect day 60 years ago that everyone draws from and yet no one can really give the exact date? “Can you believe kids today?” “Look what people these days are resorting to!” “I swear people do not have respect any more!” Anyone who has ever taken a history class, watched a historical film, heard the word ‘history’ including any given religion cannot give me a century or decade that didn’t have blood flowing from somewhere due to the hands of man regardless of government or church involvement.
The crimes towards the innocent sicken and disgust me and my heart goes to the survivors who have to piece their lives back together again, move on and try to maintain some semblance of normalcy so they can live out the remainder of their lives not living in an insane asylum. It’s not “new” really or more than any other period of time, the only difference really is that we have ways to capture and spread the news of such events like never before.
So before you get on a local news station and crinkle your nose in disgust at todays youth for smashing some rotting pumpkins in an over populated area by people from all walks of life- consider yourself extremely fortunate to have something *that* minor set you off.
