Where’s the outrage? Where are the activists? Where are the marches? Does his life not matter?
On Thursday evening, Darius 'DJ' Dugas II went to his mother’s car to reportedly retrieve his coast.
They believe he didn’t even make it to the car when he was shot multiple times.
His mother Brenetta Francis says, “all I know is, for a strong 10 seconds my baby feared for his life before he lost it. I was upstairs, along with his big brother and big sister, and there was nothing we could do about it."
The Harris County Sheriff's Office says that deputies were dispatched to the scene of a shooting around 6:50 p.m. in the 12200 block of Tidwell that night and Dugas was rushed to the hospital where he later died.
Deputies said witnesses saw a teenager with a short afro wearing a white shirt and dark sweat pants run away after the shooting in the direction toward Tidwell.
The activists aren’t speaking up for the simple reason that this death can’t be exploited for political gain.
The national media is silent as well.
She pointed out how so many people who claim to speak up for blacks are silent about these youth murders.
In 2021, 311 American children under 12 were shot and killed. But I haven’t seen anyone marching in the streets demanding justice or declaring that their innocent lives mattered…
How can we tolerate these kinds of deaths in our communities? Why is there no outrage? The country seems too busy arguing about ideology that doesn’t mean anything to a grieving mother and pouring millions of dollars into the race grievance industry. Some people even make reckless demands to defund the police, which will only endanger more children. If young black lives lost to crossfire don’t matter to us now, when will they? It shouldn’t take the bloodshed of even more innocent children before we become “woke” to this issue…
Too many self-proclaimed spokespersons for the communities struggling with violent crime insist we have no responsibility or control over our circumstances. They intone a mantra of victimhood rather than instilling positive, empowering messages in our children of what they can be…”