Chants of "Burn the City," vandalism, as well as gruesome and wholesale violence culminated in another "earthquake of chaos" as youth and adolescents struck fear in Philadelphia business owners and other Philadelphians over the weekend.
This is the third time in more than a month in which these vicious delinquents converged on parts of the city, this time on South Street through text messaging wreaking havoc and leaving a destructive trail of pillaged businesses and splintered bones.
The most potent question that is being asked is, "Where are the parents?" Where indeed!
Some youth advocates/mentors such as me have in addition stated due to a "lack of positive parenting," there is also a decline of resources in place for programs that would be very beneficial to the youth and adolescents.
Can they be the future leaders of Philadelphia? At the current pace the only future that our youth and adolescents are facing is an extensive criminal record.
Anthony P. Johnson
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