DEsensitized!!!

"DESENSITIZE

transitive verb
1
: to make (a sensitized or hypersensitive individual) insensitive or nonreactive to a sensitizing agent
2
: to make emotionally insensitive or callous; specifically : to extinguish an emotional response (as of fear, anxiety, or guilt) to stimuli that formerly induced it"

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This is what people have become...DEsensitized, and I think it's a SHAME!

Why does violence have to show up at someones front door before they take a stand against it?

When did we get to the point where it's become so easy for people to say, "it wasn't my child, so it really doesn't matter to me."

No. Violence may not have affected your child YET, but if we don't take a stand and do something about it, one day, sadly, it just might.

This is why I am part of an organization that is working to end violence in our communities through community intervention and awareness. I don't want to wait for the crime to happen to a member of my family (or YOURS). I want to "head it off at the pass" if I can.

I want our young boys do be able to walk down the street and not have their heart rate increase when they hear a call rolling up behind them.

I don't want our young boys to have to plot out an "escape route" within 20 seconds of hearing that car just in case they have to run.

Unfortunately, I'm not finding too many others who want the same.

That, makes me sad. It breaks my heart actually.

People have gotten so used to the lead story on the news being about that latest "child" who's been murdered, they've become DEsensitized to the issue and have taken a "that's a shame" approach, instead of a "what can I do to change this" approach.

The more I thought about it, the more this thought came to my mind: If nobody does anything, then nothing will ever change.

I don't know if anyone has ever said that before, and if not...then I'm takin' it. THAT there quote, is MINE.

Let the DIALOGUE begin: Have you or someone you know been a victim of violent crime in the community? Do you feel like enough is being done to stop it?

Talk to me!

Til next time...

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