King’s stated, "I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls". Even though King's dream was fulfilled, in modern day society black boys, black girls, white boys, and white girls get along and are seen together every day, although we still have problems in the black community such as crime rate, police brutality,single-parent homes, Violence and Poor health. The African-American community is struggling terribly especially with the crime rate. Crime Rate in the black community is off the charts especially black on black crime. African-Americans serve as thirteen percent of the population but we have committed half of the homicides in just thirty years, Chicago twenty-sixteen was given the title of the deadliest year in two decades. The city had at least seven-hundred-sixty-two murders, three-thousand-five-hundred-fifty shootings, and four-thousand-three-hundred-thirty-one shooting victims. Chicago’s death toll is so close to the death tolls of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. A really big issue in the African-American community
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I grew up on Durant a very dangerous street that has a lot of gang violence, on my fathers side of the family we experienced multiple issues like single parent homes, poverty, and gang violence. Gang violence on my father's side of the family is a miniature issue. My cousin Demarco Bastain was shot multiple times and killed right after stepping out of my grandmother's house. Last year New Years Eve my cousin Bubbles, Hasan and I were playing two-K a basketball game and out of the blue about 10 gun shots were fired and we immediately ducked down and covered our heads, from that point on another round of 20 rounds were fired and my cousins Jaz, and her kids Munch and Kayden were walking up the steps and the gang members were still shooting and they had to quickly run up the
I grew up on Durant a very dangerous street that has a lot of gang violence, on my fathers side of the family we experienced multiple issues like single parent homes, poverty, and gang violence. Gang violence on my father's side of the family is a miniature issue. My cousin Demarco Bastain was shot multiple times and killed right after stepping out of my grandmother's house. Last year New Years Eve my cousin Bubbles, Hasan and I were playing two-K a basketball game and out of the blue about 10 gun shots were fired and we immediately ducked down and covered our heads, from that point on another round of 20 rounds were fired and my cousins Jaz, and her kids Munch and Kayden were walking up the steps and the gang members were still shooting and they had to quickly run up the