A Cry For Help

Photo Credit: William Haun

My city is painted right now with red. Red from the continuous blood shed that we wake up to each morning. As crime continues to rise with robbery after robbery, assault after assault, shooting after shooting, as of September 18th the city is now at 32 homicides for the year of 2018 and we still have three more months to go. The crime is affecting everyone, including our teenagers, with the most recent victim being only 17 years old.

"Welcome to Macon, where you can't open your door because you might get shot by the gang that stashed a gun in your bushes. How many more young people are gonna die before this community wakes up?" ~Jason Martin, Bibb Prosecutor

As a community I question and challenge us, what can we do to turn our city around? What can we do to lower the crime in our city? What can we do to show our young people that there is more to life? What can we do to spread love and not the hate that plagues our city? What are we doing wrong as a community to where it has gotten to this point? When do we get to the point when we say enough is enough and we fight for our city, we take back our city from the devil? Is the rise in crime a cry out for our city, a cry for help from your young people? But the main question is where do we begin?