Where There Is No Vision...

There have been 158 homicides in Philadelphia this year. Of them, the days with the largest numbers of homicides have been Friday and Tuesday. The rest of the days are about even. According to a professor at Haverford College, there is some significance to these figures.

Decades ago, killings tended to happen on the weekend, after paydays, when people had the time and money to get drunk and/or focus on personal or domestic disputes. No more.

"To people who aren't legitimately employed, one night of the week isn't much different from another," Lane said. "I think what we're seeing in Philadelphia reflects the high level of poverty and unemployment among younger, black males who, in large part, are both the perpetrators and the victims of these crimes." In the Bible it says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." In this case, the lack of vision is probably two-fold. THere is the inability to see the future, but I also think a lot of the people involved in these situations don't have an accurate perception of the present, either.

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