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"Kurt Greske" |
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***** funeral, preach peace, then run to fight HAHAHA |
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Sunday, June 12, 2005
Youths at funeral on edge and angry
Speakers call for an end to the violence
By Dan Klepal
Enquirer staff writer
The Enquirer/Sarah Conard
Family members and friends of Eugene Lampkin, many wearing specially
printed shirts, escort the casket out of the church after his funeral
Saturday.
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AVONDALE - The words coming from the pulpit at Eugene Lampkin's
funeral Saturday were of healing and forgiveness.
But action in the pews at New Friendship Baptist Church showed that
not everyone is interested in practicing what was preached.
Lampkin, a 16-year-old Hughes High School student, was gunned down
early Monday while he sat in a car with his brother and two young
women in Bond Hill.
Some family members say his murder was related to a decades-old turf
war between Avondale and Bond Hill youth. Others say he died because
of his involvement with a girl he was sitting with in the car.
Regardless of the motive, each speaker Saturday talked at length about
the terrible problem in Cincinnati - and elsewhere - of children
killing children, and, particularly, black children killing black
children. They talked about the importance of loving God and loving
one another.
All of the eulogies brought applause, enthusiastic amens, and hands
waving in the air praising God.
Then, in the middle of one speech, about half of the 500 or so people
at the service - most of them minors or very young men and women -
rushed from the building when they thought there was going to be a
fight in the parking lot between Lampkin's sister and two Bond Hill
girls.
As five black police officers stood one lot over watching the action,
family members removed Lampkin's sister from the area and there was no
violence.
"It just shows the nature of the mindset," Aaron Pullins, a church
elder who gave one of the most stirring eulogies, said after the
funeral.
"They were all blinded and running right into harm's way."
Eugene Lampkin Sr. confirmed the ruckus in the middle of the memorial
happened because his daughter heard there were Bond Hill girls at the
church, and she thought that was disrespectful.
Although the elder Lampkin said he was pleased with the messages from
the pulpit, he felt conflicted all the same.
Tension was thick inside the church from the beginning.
Many young people wore T-shirts with Lampkin's picture on it, calling
him an "A-1 soldier."
A-1 is slang for Avondale.
One man, who declined to give his name, warned a reporter and
photographer entering the church to keep a low profile. "You're
dealing with young kids who are quick to anger and full of rage.
Everyone is on edge."
That, along with the fear that Lampkin's death would spark retaliatory
killings, is why each speaker took pains to preach to the kids.
Alicia Reece, a member of the church, told the congregation she was
speaking not as the city's vice mayor, but as a black woman and a
member of the community.
"Let's stop the killing. I'm tired of going to funerals," Reece said.
"We don't make the guns; we don't make the bullets. But we're putting
ourselves in the ground and doing exactly what the KKK wants us to do.
Just the other day, quite a few young men were ready to go to war. We
can turn this into a fight in the right direction."
Pullins said young blacks are destroying each other because they lack
knowledge about themselves.
"We live in a society that doesn't want you to know who you are,"
Pullins said. "They want you to think you're BET (Black Entertainment
Television); they want you to think you're Tupac (Shakur). You show me
a young man who doesn't know who he is, and I'll show you a menace to
society.
"We are a good people, but nobody will tell you that. It's time to
wake up people. We've got to take our community back. When you walk
out those doors, I want you to tell your friends that it's over, and
it's time to focus on our future."
Emily Earkins, Lampkin's math and social studies teacher, called her
pupil a "star" who was smooth with the girls, humble, bright and
well-behaved in class.
"He never misbehaved," Earkins said. "He was quiet, yet demanded
attention as soon as he entered the room. He had a special kind of
spirit."
The elder Lampkin said forgiveness is difficult. "I know I'm supposed
to turn the other cheek, but my son's killer is a 21-year-old man and
I would like to see him get the electric chair," he said. "And I'll
flip the switch."
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