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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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Memorial
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Recently I got pissed at some lamer who made a shitty Jerry Garcia joke.
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Something to the effect of "I'm greatful he's dead, ha ha." I asked him
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how he thought Garcia's family and friends felt at his death. Don't get
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me wrong; I enjoy a good joke like the ones David Letterman is telling
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(watch out for the LSD on the commemorative stamps, etc.), but the joke I
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read was just plain mean-spirited.
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Now here we have a person making stupid, thoughtless jokes who has
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obviously never come very close to death. In general, that is, not
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necessarily his own death. I have, however. I personally came close, I've
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had a grandfather die (admittedly not too close), two uncles, my
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stepfather's dad, a student of mine, and, most recently, a friend of my
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mother's (also not close). All of the deaths in my family were "natural"
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-- that is, one stroke, death from AIDS complications, and a brain
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hemorrhage. My stepfather's dad's death was also "natural" -- cancer. But
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the last two were the hardest to take.
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My mother's friend was beaten to death. Her body was found in a park near
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Barnum lake. I didn't know this woman at all, but her death shocked me.
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Reading about something like that in the paper is easy to shut out. It's
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much harder when it's closer to you.
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My student was shot to death by gang members. They drove by in a car,
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shouted, "what's up, cuz?" and shot him and his sister. The murderers have
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never been caught. This file is about Glenn Taylor, the young man who
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dared to sit out on his porch with his sister one evening, and was murdered
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because of it.
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Perhaps "my student" is a misnomer. I am a math and science tutor for
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High School Upward Bound. I help high school kids who are doing poorly in
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school. Glenn was an excellent student in high school, so I never saw
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much of him in my classroom. But in a program of just 70 kids, each face
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is distinguishable from the rest. I saw him twice a week as he came to
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the office to get bus tokens for the next day's classes (our students are
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given additional English and math classes after high school). He saw me
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fucking around with my guitar in the office one day and played some
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blues riffs for me. I showed off a little when he asked me to play
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something, and he grinned and said, "damn, I'm not that good!" and I told
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him, "Yet. You will be, just keep practicing." (as you can see, I like to
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brag).
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<note: any direct quotes in this file are paraphrased. I have no idea
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*exactly* what was said>
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The first thing most people think when they read "drive-by" and
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"gang-related" in the newspaper is that the shooting was part of a turf
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war and that the person who wound up dead must have been in one gang or
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another. Not in this case. Glenn was an honest person. He did well in
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school. He went to church regularly with his family. He had a future.
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It was all taken away from him by a two-bit fuckup whose only future is a
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promising career in drugs, provided he doesn't get himself killed first.
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He will contribute nothing to the world except more drug habits, more
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crime, and more ignorance. Glenn Taylor was so much more than this
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worthless coward who fired on a 15-year-old boy and his sister while they
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were thinking of what might happen at school the next day.
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Goodbye, Glenn. We miss you.
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-Legion
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