Mike Rey Gascon: Where are the parents of ‘skinhead’ kid?
Re “Police: 12-year-old boy cited for hate crime” (Page 3A, Sept. 3): With remorse I read the article about a hate crime by a 12-year-old boy who told his assailant “I’m a member of KKK and raised as a ‘skinhead.’” Amazing!
Therein lies the reason he and his sister are the way they are. Is there no guidance from their parents? We give this generation cell phones and iPods and video games and expect everything to take care of itself.
The media seems to miss the fact raising your child, no matter the family income, is the key issue and should be addressed always.
Sure, I’m 82, but by golly I, too, was raised by a single mom and grandparents. In our household you were taught to respect and to obey your parents, adults, police (and at that time it was an all-white police force), no matter the nationalities. It mattered, because life mattered!
I’m sure many of us remember not locking your front door. You sure don’t dare do that now. The key in today’s world is better guidance for our children, what they call “parenthood.” The grade on this issue today is a big fat “F”!
Mike Rey Gascon, Modesto
This story was originally published September 22, 2015 at 4:58 PM with the headline "Mike Rey Gascon: Where are the parents of ‘skinhead’ kid?."