They Should Remember

On October 13, 1994 a five year old boy was thrown off the fourteenth level of one of the Ida. B Wells building. This was a crime that hit national news. President Clinton came to visit and also some other famous people came to visit the scene of the crime. Since these people didn’t do anything to try to stop the crime that happens in this neighborhood Lloyd and LeAlan took it into there own hands. They went around interviewing people that lived in the building where Eric the five year old boy was thrown out the window and killed to ask about the conditions of the buildings and the way the housing authority tries to keep them safe. People had negative opinions about there living conditions in the building. They argued that why should they have to board up there windows so that they wont be smashed or why is it that 80% of the building was vacant, that they shouldn’t have to live like this. My questions is with crime happening everyday in this neighborhood and the people in fear of there lives why isn’t the government taking every single family in these building away and knocking the buildings down, and why is it that famous people come to the neighbor when something bad happens but doesn’t try to help out, instead just goes there and shows sympathy to the family but then when they leave don’t donate any money to try and help out the living conditions? Why is it that everyone forgets about major problems in the world but remembers all the little but yet not important events?