Political Director to Russell Simmons and co-president of GlobalGrind.com, Michael Skolnik recently spoke to 92Y about how to approach the senseless gun violence in our inner cities for their Campaign For American Conversation.
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“We are not paying enough attention to those young people who are dying in our inner cities… they become numbers, they become statistics, we don’t remember their names. But the Trayvon Martin’s and the Derrion Albert’s and the Kevin Miller’s and the Jordan Davis’s…who are being killed for no reason…we should also remember their names, remember their lives, and never let any young person die in vain,” he said.
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In the wake of hundreds of deaths this year already, including 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton who was shot in Chicago just yesterday, what do you think we should do to curb gun violence?
SOURCE: 92Y AmericanConversation
