Setting the example: We set out to do this everyday in all that we do, only to get a reality slap of the world we live in. Drugs, crimes, violence, and gangs, plaque our neighborhoods. We work hard to make an honest living while this world’s sickness continues to feast on the labors of hard working citizens and the innocence of youth, leaving a torn shell of what existed as a family.

Recently I was asked where were the parents of the 17 year old who shot me three times? As if to place the blame on the parents. Without reply, I thought “they were probable consumed in working for someone who doesn’t even know their name; Just to live their live for what? To pay their bills and get by on pennies and dimes….. What do we do? Instinct has us lay blame, but let’s think for a moment…

Mom and Dad are at work, employed by someone that thinks their work value is based on the lowest bid, minimum wage, or the next warm body to come through the door. Johnny and Jane go home to an empty home, day in and day out, five days a week. Mom gets home at six makes dinner, helps the kids with home work, and dad gets home at eight, eats a cold dinner, and says good night to the kids.

Meanwhile, four hours earlier the local drug dealer just sold your kids dope at  your dinner table, with the money from your safe, for hard times, checked out Jane and tried to make a pass at her even though she is only 14, cased out your home, urinated on the toilet seat that you will  be blamed for at 8:30, ate warm food that you usually get cold, bought your hand gun that you left under your socks and forgot to register, and made an appointment with the local homeboys to steal everything you own, and not care  for one moment that you worked a honest days work for an honest days pay!

So the question shouldn’t have been where were the parents? The question should have been where did we go wrong, and how can we fix it.

Read all the way through the first seven sentences are informational, a virus (from the Latin, meaning toxin or poison, is a submicroscopic, infectious agent which is unable to grow or reproduce outside of a host cell.) Biologist debate whether or not viruses are living organisms. Some consider them non-living as they do not meet the criteria of the definition of life. For example, unlike most organisms, viruses do not have cells. Others have described them as organisms at the edge of life. Often, a virus is completely eliminated by the immune system.

It is time to look to the past for the answers of present. We have to allow ourselves to see as our fathers did. But we must also remember as he did, that anti-venom lies within the venom. The thorn is right next to the rose. Like location of a local police station ridden community, we find our antidotes right next to its poison.

As a universal front we also must change our approach on intervention programs and reconsider thinking outside the box. There are new genius, new heroes, in the world that have yet to be challenged for the better of humanity.

Were they? Who are they?

Programs have developed to take charge against these evils. They stand alone like eagles finding them one at a time, fighting for the cause they believe in. If you really think about it, their sleeves are rolled up and they are fighting tooth and nail. It’s the negative and positive, the night and day, the good-vs.-evil and we're just getting use to it. I propose a new program to take on the challenge of success for the next generations. We don’t need a thousand case studies for just one hypothesis. We need solutions before the next tragedy, answers before the next jail sentence, and a new brand of parents that know how to stand for something. I have asked questions, taken my statistics and even given surveys. My findings are that we keep putting the virus away in storage, only to have it leak out into our systems. We continue to be the host for it to feed upon rather than eliminate it. Good thing the judicial systems aren’t based the same as that of the human immune system.