http://edwardsjames.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/bitter-days/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:41:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://edwardsjames.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/bitter-days/#comment-27 The Violence Project » Blog Archive » Taking Up The Challenge Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:21:55 +0000 http://edwardsjames.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-27 [...] wanted to share a comment from the previous incarnation of this blog.  It is from the sister of Keith Stephens, one of the subjects in the book Class Dismissed.  [...] [...] wanted to share a comment from the previous incarnation of this blog.  It is from the sister of Keith Stephens, one of the subjects in the book Class Dismissed.  [...]

]]> http://edwardsjames.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/bitter-days/#comment-21 Latisha Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:14:45 +0000 http://edwardsjames.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-21 I happen to be the sister of Keith Stephens and I'm definitely up for the challenge.......There's been countless murder's in the Bay Area since Keith passed away and I've just became so numb Your eyes are never truly open to this problem unless homicide touches you life.....I was guilty of that before I lost my brother and you think this would never happen in your family but yes it can It happen to us. Keith was a good kid he had his troubles here and there just like any other kid but not in a million years I would have ever though someone would take Keith Stephens life..............If you read the book you would know Keith was one of the most likeably guys you would ever come across. We should all dig a little deeper rather than saying “Oh that another dead Black Man". Dig deeper you never know what an amazing person he could have been. My father's worst nightmare came about when we lost Keith, he never wanted either of his sons’s to become a statistic and to some that's all my brother simply is..................... I happen to be the sister of Keith Stephens and I’m definitely up for the challenge…….There’s been countless murder’s in the Bay Area since Keith passed away and I’ve just became so numb Your eyes are never truly open to this problem unless homicide touches you life…..I was guilty of that before I lost my brother and you think this would never happen in your family but yes it can It happen to us. Keith was a good kid he had his troubles here and there just like any other kid but not in a million years I would have ever though someone would take Keith Stephens life…………..If you read the book you would know Keith was one of the most likeably guys you would ever come across. We should all dig a little deeper rather than saying “Oh that another dead Black Man”. Dig deeper you never know what an amazing person he could have been. My father’s worst nightmare came about when we lost Keith, he never wanted either of his sons’s to become a statistic and to some that’s all my brother simply is…………………

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