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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...
...last week that Tyrone Sinkler and his friend Ian Moore, 17, were shot to death in a corridor of their Brooklyn high school, New York City Mayor David Dinkins was on his way to lecture the students about self-esteem. The mayor would speak under a banner bearing some words of Martin Luther King Jr.: "The choice today is not between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence." It was a gun, of course, that dispatched Martin Luther King to nonexistence nearly 24 years...
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...