Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, apparently called the parents of a 15 year-old New Yorker killed for his iPod, tennis shoes and cell phone. Jobs offered his condolences and offered to help in any way he could. After the conversation the father of the boy talked to the New York Times...
We live in a world which is changing rapidly...We have the technology that can give us the iPod and everything else, but it's not all these things. We have to work on the minds and the hearts.
We're failing these kids. We're not loving them the way we're supposed to.
I remember years ago kids were getting killed for tennis shoes. I don't remember the CEO of Nike or Reebok calling any of those parents.
Bottom line, this is tragic and wrong and nothing new.
Posted by: Tim | 07/06/2005 at 12:40 PM
i was thinking the same thing. i remember as a kid that other kids got beat up at my school for a stupid pair of air jordans.
Posted by: adam | 07/06/2005 at 02:54 PM