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Monday, March 26, 2018

2018-03-26

As hundreds of thousand of demonstrators prepared to march in Washington in response to the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., students on the South Side of Chicago felt sympathy, but also frustration. Why hadn’t the gun violence in their community earned the nation’s outrage? Guest: Sameen Amin, a senior video producer at The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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From the New York Times are Michael Barbara. These he's the daily today, as hundreds, thousands of demonstrators prepared tumor on Washington in response to this cool shooting in Portland Florida students on Chicago's, south side, filth, sympathy, but also frustration I hadn't the gun, violence in their community earned the nations outrage its Monday March, twenty sixth, Ok, keys are key parsley capital as age or air gnomon. Any W Windsor embraced the two coming
so on a typical day, Quichua Newman, whose fifteen years old has trouble waking up because he's fifteen years old. He sets like alarms on his Iphone. They start very early in the morning and they go like every ten minutes and he's snoozing them. Finally, one of them work and he gets out by the bed. He lives on the south side of Chicago with his mom and his elder brother. It's a two bedroom apartment him in his brother share room there, both teenagers, his bedroom, is plastered with posters. There is bad. All players, and then there is also a poster of I'm ok on the wall, so mean a mean recently reported from Chicago Meanwhile, his mom sitting in the other room, just calling out the time to make sure that her kids get to school on time, saying its seven ten, seventeen they've got to get out of the house by seven. Forty Finally, it had some forty in
comes out of the room and sees her kids, the door and off they go so tell me about this commute to score every day when he leaves the house. He has done keep in mind that he's gonna walk through some neighborhoods that are not gonna, be safe here. To think about his walk school of the worry, though, like a short of being wrong place, while Tom others have to make sure the stay safe is my second, so I dont be the nice kid that then so from the violence has been going on in the neighborhood. It's about ten to fifteen blocks. You can cause major street and on one side of the street, a certain gang controls that area he goes to the other side of the street and the different gang controls that area and he might not have anything to do with either of those two groups, but simply because he lives on one side of the street and goes the other side of the street he's now
in a dangerous territory. So he has so always watch. His back is, as you have never pick and choose were to do. Where were you go there, so you can be so so if you walk, I always just look for yourself. Even if you use water, so does anything gap in the toy. One bottlenecks work He told me that he was tired by his mom at a young age. If you take one one way, take the other route back because someone's following you than they're going to be confused his mom
hold him that if you have a couple bucks in your pocket and your paying for something only take out a dollar at a time he lives in one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Beyond that, his neighborhood is one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago. He lives on the south side of Chicago in a community called Auburn Gresham, and the homicide rate in that area is nearly twice the average for the city. It's nearly ten times the national average. Ninety percent of homicides are carried out by guns, so there are a lot of guns on the streets in this neighborhood that he lives in, moreover, was walkin bagful, Turkey's girlfriends, robust. Yes, it is
Fedex store so try to say hi. So that's where you want to go to do and as he was walking, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and there was a shootout down the block. He was shot nine times and was killed, when I heard that the my head at that time, I can really comprehend, fell sir I've. How angry about to present his is a lot of was so its march fourteenth and it's a month after the shooting in Parkland Florida, the school should
there and students are preparing for this national school walk out. The entire school is participating. There's a lot of anticipation and the hallways. There's little posters up on the lockers about the National School walk out. There's some kids holding placards with the faces of some of the kids that were killed in purple in Florida. There's also kids with posters and pictures of some of the kids that were killed in Chicago, and so this walk out for them is also a statement on their own community. My brother, he felt close friend recently in like me, seeing him hurt and cry like that. It really affected me. You can just try to be like going outside like him, he went out that doing anything with his life going on with his life, and he gay.
Kill me just never know was go happily used about your house. For me, I know it different from you about I come in. Here is your teacher, but I've lost three students about fears for years and I've been here. That's why keep her here because he shine is participating in the walk out and he's also gotta, be speaking at this rally: community rally where three different schools are gonna, be there so key Sean, he's, never spoken publicly, he's got a lot to say, but he's a shy kid and he's really nervous he's preparing his speech him and one of his friends are both speaking and so they're kind of huddled on this.
In the hallway writing on these little q cards, looking up stats on their phones. Are you gonna, Pacific where's, your statistics with the voting racial hatred? So no, this compromise transitional the chance of a transition from that I write angry and this company transition somewhere about the effect about just how big the number is does, after three months of this year, a hundred and twenty have been shot already, so he's emerging he's rehearsing. You could tell that this was something that was a really big deal for him there's a spell that goes off. That signals that it's time for everyone to start walking out, and then you see kid streaming down the stairs going outside of the school, there is a massive crowd. There's lots of me
yeah they're, they're kind of all crowded around the area where people are speaking, he Sean and his friend both who are speaking. Elbow their way through the crowd to get to the front, I am pleased to move a brave leader of one of the eight, because I want to make a change of men to the violence has thank everyone. It ain't right! That's what I want. That's no people and while he's speaking, he he pauses in the middle because he's so nervous and he gets cheers from the crowd.
And he also gets a low emotional. He talks about his brother and he talks about how that forced him to speak out and fight for change and no more angry. You angry than you do something about your angry. You can make a change. We're here, the negative. So after the speakers, our finnish, a release, seventeen white balloons for the kids and Parkland Florida. They release thirteen yellow balloons for kids that go to key shant School who have been killed and then fifty red balloons to signify Chicago kids who have been killed and that's not an exact number. But it's to signify the amount of people who have been lost. Two gun violence in Chicago loans, hard not to notice of their numbers, bigger
That number is significantly bigger and for them it was on a comparison, but more of a frustration about how we deal with this every day. We need to be involved in this conversation as well. And this is our reality of gun, violence and my school. I don't really think of it as a apply for a mass shooting cuz, most most of it happens outside of school. Nobody really thinks about come to the school to chew or have entered the well as most people say. Ok me me, after school. Anything like TAT, so at school doesn't really a place for it to be worried about my shoe Why do these students think that the violence in Chicago doesn't get the kind of attention the scale of attention?
that a mass shooting cars in parliament for it? So I think the kids understand that seventeen people being killed at once in a school is horrific and terrible, and the scale of that is powerful, But at the same time, they also wonder given how long they ve been dealing with gun violence and how present it is, how many of their loved ones have been shot and killed in their neighborhood. Why that isn't cause for a national issue. Why that is cause for people to have a similar reaction. Those are the kinds of questions that they were grappling with, so what would work out of it by the national walk out so situated mostly all schools or, on the contrary, you really do not have derision. Here. This is my school. I went with key shine to this violence.
Mention youth group that he's part of its in the basement of a church and Lamar Johnson, who is the leader of this youth group, asks them a question about what are the differences and similarities between you guys and the kids in parkland beyond? What do they cater was filling the trauma say: listen, alas, it was probably the tension now ask questions. Is that form ass, an exquisite? She was really answer. Indescribable, get the same, sympathy and compassion.
Do you know the median income, which means just the average income of a person and pardon this- is- is between twenty five hundred thousand dollars a year per household. Ok, so compared it do you know the median income for a person living immigration with English said again, so we were partly makes three times as much as you. Your family's Erica. Alone. So Lamar, their youth group leader, is trying to help these kids grapple with these feelings that they're, having a frustration but also of of remorse, for what's happened in parkland and he's trying to guide their conversation. Trying to guide their energy Unum angrier partner
one of our partners with us that they acknowledge that a further reason why do you have is performing because they privilege they are really sincere about public, create change here, just as well as their so when I'm angry at them. When I want you oughta be angry, it is the whole system itself easy access to God. I said that easy access to girls, food- we talked about this the day at their happier, how it wasn't football
They were so the same way. How easy is it for you all? The more so now you get the attention now you gotta get was similar and was didn't were higher right this down. So now we take those similarities and differences. Now you say this is why I would say we deal with the same amount of charm every day with the same age and we had the same easy access to donors, but is not right that we give negatively because of our race air, because we will have as much money as you've been fighting for peace and justice for a long time, and you not going to stop now so use this moment. This anger, this frustration, this momentum and take advantage of that. So when we go out I think I'll be ready, Dennis
Remarkable thing happens. Here is the bridge. The architect I know I'm weird today because we have partnered with high schools in Chicago, as well as students from Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida today the opportunity to bring them here, some of the survivors from the parkland shooting come to Chicago to meet with these kids. The church that Lamar works with facilitate this meeting and it's one saturday that they come to Chicago and they meet behind closed doors. Key shine is gonna, be meeting Emma Gonzales, whose
become one of the more well known survivors from parkland shooting. For the first time he some kids from parkland speak key Sean speaks. This point has become a bit of a pro at doing us in his spoken a few times he tells who were now, because I was working desert everywhere. Where were you MAC Whirr of olive oil? is microphone. A little bit. I'm a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Today has now This isn't just business
this isn't Justin Chicago this season in parkland. This is everywhere in the United States, and this is the only country that has these problems, because you're the only country with such blacks, gun laws, groups of kids who lead dramatically different lives, but also have had really dramatic experience with gun violence acknowledge their differences, but also land on this theme of commonality between both of them and this idea that they have all been effect. By gun violence, whether it's been a mass shooter in their school
or whether its walking down the block and having to watch your back, because there are bullets flying in the neighborhood and as far as the Chicago kids are concerned, they were frustrated before the attention that they didn't get and now they're saying you know what whatever it takes to light this match, we want to be part of this movement, because this affects us losing somebody is losing somebody getting shot is getting shot and it doesn't matter if it happens to me or if I happened, someone in Florida, the fact that you've lost somebody because of gun violence, it's going to feel the same but what I have in common with the kids Barclays that
I know how it feels to lose some wine as close to you. They have conversations about their shared experiences. They have conversations about how they're going to push this movement forward together. These can who have come from parkland, are very aware of what these Chicago teens face and they are very committed, and making sure that their reality is included in this movement that they're kind of leading. At this point I love one institution I'm yesterday from Chicago Illinois, Nazi and respect the charter school. So he Sean with his peers from Chicago goes to Washington to March with the kids from parkland, No, we don't have Randal measures. We have day, we shouldn't worry the
so much for our lives against gun violence and their their meeting with people from across the country and really talking about the type of gun violence that they face in their community. This is why I am here because we must stop led this weakens the normal Chicago. At this moment. The youth voices rising across the country, especially in Chicago of Course, are out of work. Are clear and I've always thought about to change history. If you liked what we saw on Saturday in Washington was using one tragedy, a tragedy that happens less often than a horrible mass shooting and then, in this instance, effective a white community
to elevate this violence happens on a far more routine, even daily basis to a mostly african american community and that for the kids from Chicago. This is their chance to really be recognized. Yeah. I think that, for the kids from Chicago who are marching in Washington, this is there a chance to be part of a national com. Patient. This is their moment. They have been work, in organizing in their own communities, for a long time, and now there is this opening on the national stage and their take yet and their running with it. Some. Thank you very much. Thank you this weekend March in Washington, he shot and other students from Auburn Gresham Round,
alongside the students from Parkland Florida, the efforts at inclusion by the marches organizers or shaped by the conversations that happened in Chicago between the two groups of students and the connections they made there, sceptics and cynics who told us to sit down and see stay silent wave. Your turn welcome to the revenue it is a powerful and peaceful one because it is up by and for the young. This country, my name, is camera casting, since this movement began, people have asked me: do you think any changes going to come from this
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