Many of our inner cities have become drug infested places to live. Some live in fear of the drug dealers and their follower who are willing to do harm to them. It will take a consensus effort on our part to make our streets safe again.

The introduction of drugs to our inner cities was a day that will live in infamy. Through violence, jail, and murder, drug use and selling has destroyed many lives. Why has drugs had a paralyzing affect on our people? A number of theories can be proposed to further stimulate thought concerning the subject.

The lack of family is one reason drugs have been able to split the community wide open. If the father is not in the picture, a male may start to feel he must provide for their family, because his mother comes home tired. As a child, many of us were unable to rationalize that work is labor. Also there may be a lack of positive role models nearby. Therefore the drug dealers like a good salesman have been able to convince a few kids to follow them. They show them the women, the clothes, the jewels, and the cars. The material things that are often portrayed in videos. The problem is some children have not been exposed, to seeing all of the hard work that rap and r & b artists must endure. Many of these artists have 18 hour a day schedules.

Some of our young people get caught up in the trap of selling drugs. It is the easy money, those new shoes they can buy in an instance. Those twenty-four inch rims look good on my new ride. Young people have a feeling of invincibility, and some become users of their own supply. Not only are they endanger other people's lives but the life of their own.

Do drug dealers see they are hurting people in their own community? Of course they do, they are human beings who feel and act just like any of us. Some have emotional insecurities about the fear of not being accepted or being loved. Others drug dealers have no belief in God, and pretend to take the place of the Master of the Universe. There is also that power that many of us give to them. We live in fear of what drug dealers can do to us; similar to the times of slavery.

We all need to make efforts to take back our streets. Those who have achieved some level of success in life need not ignore their old neighborhood. Call the police when you suspect people selling drugs in your neighborhood. You are actually saying it is okay by keeping silent. We can overcome anything through cooperation among us all.

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