Whats WRONG with people?!?

I happened to be on my Facebook and I saw my Facebook friends sister was killed.  I couldn't believe HOW she died though.

Kamisha Richards, 22 year-old college grad, was stabbed to death by her boyfriend's sister over 20 DOLLARS! I couldn't believe what I was reading.  It was all over the news, internet and Facebook.  Such a senseless act!

From New York Post, Richards and Kayla Henriques started argueing over Facebook about the $20 Richards gave Henriques for diapers for Henriques infant daughter.  Richards soon found out that she didn't use the 20 dollars for diapers, but something else (not stated what it was used for).  Richards confronted her, after the Facebook feud, at Henriques house in East Brooklyn New York and no one knows what happened except that Richards was stabbed to death.

Its truly sad that such a very young life was taken over a few dollars, not to mention what the boyfriend, Ramel Henriques is going through with his sister being the one responsible for his girlfriend of 7 years death.  Plus, the family and an infant daughter who more than likely won't see her mother ever again except behind bars.  All outcomes of this horrific story is devastating and it makes me wonder; WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE & WHATS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD?!  An educated woman trying to help her friend and she ends up dead???  They do say, "God works in mysterious ways".

Rest In Peace Kamisha Richards

Race Issues & Education

From Paul Steinmetz blog, he talks about his interview with Elizabeth Alexander, a poet and chariman of the African American Studies at Yale who was at Obama's inauguration.  She speaks on racial issues and the education system in the United States and how come its not being looked at as an important factor. “Education is incredibly important,” she said. “Issues of curriculum and curriculum reform are important. Kids have to go to school and we have to ask, are going to teach them about this important, complex country we live in or not?”  I replied:

As an African American woman, I agree there is work to be done. However, I think Americans are learning about race diversity through society and media. I’m not saying its the right way because a lot of media is stereotyping and manipulates its audience. More culture classes should be added to the school systems and not just African American culture, but Latin and others since there’s such a great amount of races in the nation. With my experience enrolling in a African American culture class, if a college class doesn’t have a good amount of people enrolled in it, it will be canceled, which it was. I honestly see that as a problem, not just with the school but with students as well. But, as a student, increases in tuition and so on, we fight for our classes towards our degree and even when we have room for electives, we try to get courses related to our major. And I bet with Obama becoming the first black president, we all thought there would be an increase in black history. I haven’t seen it except for the month of February, black history month go figure.