Word: sinkler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is metaphysics of a sentimental kind. The bullets remain in the bodies, and the dead stay dead. James Sinkler was trying to impress that raw fact upon his younger brother Tyrone, who was 16 years old. "I told him last week. I told him the week before," James Sinkler says. "Life is not like the movies. When you die, you don't come back. Life is so precious...
...thing, however, was that Sinkler wasn't sobbing or hysterical--neither was Linda Moore, whose son Ian was also shot to death, in another picture. Rather, Sinkler is seen wearing a baseball cap, one hand resting on his hip, the other on a gate in the school. His eyes seem closed, but they're not. He's just looking down to the cement ground, as if the answers are to be found in the cracks on the pavement...
From the picture, the only sign that Moore has been crying is the white tissue hanging from her hand. Otherwise, her expression is almost identical to that of Sinkler, in the photo above--upper lip tucked in under lower lip, eyes blank. This same expression covers the faces of the teenage girls whose pictures were taken on the scene of the incident at Thomas Jefferson High...
...dead bodies of Tyrone Sinkler and Ian Moore, as well as the unsalvageable life of young Khalil Sumpter, the 15-year-old "gunman," testify to the fact that ghetto violence and ghetto frustrations are no longer confined to the streets. No longer can we assume that kids leave their problems at the wire fence entrance to the schoolhouse...
...East New York. The cycle is obvious and it is apparent on the faces in the pictures. The young kids in East New York today will inherit about as much hope as their older sibling possess, and they in turn absorb the desperation and the pain of James Sinkler and Linda Moore...