Black male, 14 years old, found in dumpster

Another day, another young black male murdered. This time, a 14 year old 8th grader in Miami, FL. Rod K. Williams attended Brownsville Middle School in the Brown Sub area of Miami, a smaller part of the Liberty City community. You can't call Liberty City a suburb but it does have its nice areas but Brown Sub isn't one of them. Rod began hanging with the wrong crowd in the Little Haiti section of Miami, a lot of older cats and his family didn't approve but you know once a teen, especially a boy hits puberty, then they start smelling themselves as if they are grown. Rod would go missing for days so this last time his family realized he went missing, they didn't think anything of it. This would be the last time he went missing as he was found dumped, his decomposing body rotting in a trash bin in Little Haiti. Police aren't stating the cause of death. His death brings up a bigger issue: why are there no role models for our youths, especially our males? Granted, Rod, had a dad but, for the most part, he was living with his aunt. His mom died in 2000 from complications of AIDS. Because there was no stable male influence in his life, he ran with the wrong crowd. Today's male youth: are all their heroes thugged out entertainers and athletes and local drug boys and they try so hard to emulate them whatever happened to the doctors, lawyers and police officers, firefighters that were there when I was growing up? We need to have more males in the white collar field to show our young boys they CAN be something other than drug boys. Look ahead to tomorrow, not just for today. Look at the Robert Johnsons, the Magic Johnsons. Check out Black Enterprises magazine for our heroes. Damn, this is getting too damn ridiculous.