Chicago's forgotten gun violence victims: 'We've normalized hopelessness'
Capehart
The Washington Post
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:19.0 | Hi, I'm Jonathan Capehart and welcome to Cape Up. |
| 0:23.3 | At the start of 2019, let's revisit our best episode of 2018. |
| 0:29.0 | Our visit to DeAngelo McDade and his Chicago neighborhood, a year to the day he and his family were shot at on their front porch. |
| 0:39.8 | In June, I went back to the day, he and his family were shot at on their front porch. In June, I went to the Aspen Ideas Festival. |
| 0:43.3 | It's a week-long incubator put on by the Aspen Institute every year. |
| 0:48.0 | And people from all over the world, by and large liberals and very wealthy attend. |
| 0:53.6 | There are seminars and talks and symposia centered around ideas about how to change the world. |
| 1:00.5 | And the organizers hope people will leave Aspen feeling energized and actually act on changing the world. |
| 1:09.4 | This year at the closing session, there was a panel featuring three young people from |
| 1:14.5 | Chicago, Ariana Williams, Trayvon Bosley, and DeAngelo McDade, where they talked about |
| 1:21.2 | gun violence. |
| 1:22.1 | And through the course of the conversation, you find out they and their families have |
| 1:27.4 | all been victims of gun violence. |
| 1:29.5 | And we're not talking just one time. |
| 1:31.1 | We're talking many, many, many times over. |
| 1:34.7 | The first death that I ever experienced was my father at the age of eight. |
| 1:39.6 | I lost my brother, Terrell Bosley, April 4th, 2006. |
| 1:43.7 | And he was a well-known gospel. |
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