The youth have voices too!

The youth have ideas and plans just like anyone else; but due to the negative media coverage and overall stereotypical mentally that the UK society have, all of the youths seem to have been put in a category where now it makes it harder for people to take them seriously.

So in the UK, there’s been a rising problem in gun and knife crime. Youths are running rampant in the various cities of London, killing their own with no remorse. What are we meant to do? Surely, we can’t sit back and allow this to happen any longer? Nevertheless, we shouldn’t be branding all youths as ‘bad’ or ‘trouble makers’ due to a handful committing these crimes, while the others are trying to do something with their lives.

There’s various opportunities in London that a lot of the youths are getting themselves involved in, but every day, (not recently, the rate has gone down a lot) in the news headlines, there would be at least one headline about a youth stabbing, or a youth shooting. When that is shown, then a whole surge of negativity towards youths accumulates again. But really, why do we always necessarily think when one person does something that the entire society or a group of people do it?

I work with youths voluntarily from time to time, and there are youths there that generally want to do well and have aspirations and goals to change the world. There’s some that want to start businesses, there’s some that want to help businesses not just in this country, but in countries around the world—there’s so many ideas rushing in all of their heads; but how are they supposed to pull through when the mentality of the entire nation is twisted because of a few youths committing crimes? A lot of them have made plans and have so many ideas about how they want to make the world a better place.

The youth are the next generation, and all of their futures are bright. The least we can do is support them and cheer them on.