There's a story I read the other day about the football player from Oscar Smith High School in Chesapeake, Virginia, Lonnie Andrews, Jr, who was killed July 1, 2008. Very sad story from what I'm hearing.
The story is that he got into an argument with a 17 year old kid who subsequently shot and killed Andrews. The young football star was all set to attend Virginia State University on a football scholarship and had many other college programs showing interest in him. The future looked great for Lonnie Andrews, Jr. He was going to play college football, get an education and begin a major part of his life and future but that's all over now. And as for the young man who killed Lonnie, what can you really say? His life is ruined as well! Now two lives are over at such a young age.
Too many times you read these stories about young African America men who play sports, who come from the inner cities that have been killed. This is not the first time this has happened and sadly this will not be the last. They're leaving home, leaving the streets behind for a better life but your friends are being left behind as you move forward. Jealousy sets in because this person or that person did not make it out, did not get a scholarship for college and, for some reason in the African America community, this turns into hate or rage and leads to someone being killed for no reason; for making it out of the inner city.
Leave, high school sports stars and never come back is my message to you! Everyone from your world is not happy for the success you have achieved. The unfortunate ones who could not play a sport or achieve anything in school are left behind with no future or no hope and often times they don't want you to have a future of your own.
The haters out there feel that if they are not able to have a future then they, the haters, don't want you to have a future either. It's very sad but there is always that rotten element out there looking to bring you down because you are successful and moving on in life; because you can go places and do things.
Leave, sports stars and never come back! If you do, someone from your home town will not be happy to see you come back.
What happened to Lonnie Andrews, Jr. is just another sad and sick story about a promising high school athlete cut down too early who was trying to do something with his life and too often you read about or hear about this on T.V.
To all the sports star athletes: once you are set to leave for college, just leave. Don't tell anyone where you're going and never come back.
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