On March 3rd, Sawee Kofa, a 27-year-old Black male, was shot at a SEPTA bus stop. He was fatally shot by a man who exited the bus behind him. There is no description of the at-large suspect in the media.
The next day, two Black males opened fire on High School students as they were exiting a SEPTA bus. Dayemen Taylor, a 17-year-old Black male, was killed. Two other High School students were injured. Two adult females, one aged 71, were hit by bullets while sitting on the bus.
The next day, Carmelo Drayton, a 37-year-old male, was shot and killed while sitting on a bus. An at-large Black male suspect was exiting the bus, then turned around and shot Drayton in the chest as he was leaving.
The next day, a group of Black males opened fire on High school students after they exited from a SEPTA bus. Eight victims, ages 15-17, were hit and injured. One victim was shot nine times.
LOL… Blacks, buses, and misery. A classic combo that never goes out of style. Had they survived, Sawee, Dayemen, and Carmelo could have contributed much to the Philly ghettoes.
This topic makes me think of Spike Lee’s only good movie, Get On The Bus. A bunch of middle-aged Afrocentric brothas take a chartered bus to the Million Man March in ‘95. One is a parolee who is allowed to attend on the condition that he remain handcuffed to his pops. Another is a gangsta turned Muzzie. Another is a homophobic actor, and by total coincidence there’s a gay couple to boot. Alas, the bus encounters lots of snafus & delays, giving the men ample time to air their grievances about the ways black culture holds them back. They’re discombobulated by encounters with friendly Southern Whites. One of the men dies en route, and the bus ends up not even getting to D.C. The whole point is the anticlimax, not unlike Waiting For Godot & other existential European fare.
It should’ve been a career turning point for li’l Spike, but he then went right back to his bread & butter Whitey-bashing roots and has gone on to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in box office blood money.