South Grand Press Release 10/10/14 South Grand a Neighborhood For Everyone South Grand, Shaw, and the other Tower Grove neighborhoods have a long history of diversity and respect for our community. Our hearts ache for the Myers family, for the loss of a son, for a mothers grief and a familys pain. No words or actions can heal this wound. We ask for understanding as our community remembers the loss of Vonderrit Myers. We ask for patience as we reflect on the circumstances that led us here, in order to change them for the future. We recognize the challenging role police face. We empathize with the anxiety their families experience, especially during times of tension. We support these families, many of whom are our neighbors. We are a neighborhood in the truest sense, an anomaly in modern America. We are an economically and racially diverse community where people from all races live,work, shop and eat. We find ourselves with a problem of history that is greater than any one person or neighborhood. We, like all neighborhoods and the people they are comprised of, have flaws. We are actively working toward correcting these. Community members have long seen the inequity in educational opportunities in the neighborhood. In addition to improvements within SLPS, community members have opened charter schools to offer a high quality education to all children in our community. Residents have opened and expanded businesses that hire from the immediate neighborhood. Parks and other public spaces have been improved for the benefit of all. Affordable housing is actively being renovated and built to ensure that we continue to be a community for everyone. We ask for continued dialogue so that we may hear all voices. We work for continued improvement in educational and vocational opportunities for all of our children. We continue to search for the same answers as police and protestors alike. We pray for patience and peace in our community and world as a whole. Thank you, Christopher Shearman
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 23:57:53 +0000
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