What CAN our kids do?

Increasingly I am finding myself agitated with that question. What can our kids do? Here in Milwaukee there are more laws, rules, and regulations about what our children can't do and where they can't be than ever. I mean really if your parents are not rich and can't afford the HIGH ass YMCA, Boys & Girls Club, AAU (athletic clubs) memberships then what activities are out there for your tween and teen aged kids?? In Milwaukee, there are no rollerskating rinks in the inner city or even on a bus line that the kids can go to safely, no bowling within walking distance. What of the movies you might ask??? The classic teen congregation at the mall?? In my day there was the Grand Movie theater downtown, Northtown (a dump today), Northridge, Capitol Court, Mill Road , Villard theaters, The Budget theater (for non-new releases), and the Drive in if you had a car full; all gone. Kids are too violent they say, too rowdy, dangerous. The Malls don't even want the kids there. Mayfair mall says that if you are under 17 you cannot enter their mall after 2pm on Friday and Saturday with out someone over 21. ACORN is now filing suit with over 40 harassment complaints from  black CHILDREN, that have been followed, searched, and kicked out of that mall without just cause. Remember the freedom of getting your first car rounding up some friends and driving around?? Not here in Milwaukee after 8pm. Drive down a street more than twice and you will get a ticket. No place for teens to congregate. More than three together at a time - ohmygod its a gang!! These are our kids. I mean what the fuck? Did we not create these beings? Won't we need them one day? Are we supposed to be afraid of ever fucking thing????!!! These are not pets that we are talking about here that were once reeeealy cute puppies. Now they are big and not so cute. These are our kids. They are what we mold and made them into. Don't like it? Tough tit. Maybe we are the ones that still have a whole lot of growing up to do.

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