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24 Jun
1

LOVE & Death

What is love? “Love is a set of emotions and behaviors characterized by intimacy, passion, and commitment. It involves care, closeness, protectiveness, attraction, affection, and trust.” Grief requires LOVE. The love you show yourself when dealing with the loss of a loved one, the love from others who also loved your loved one and the love from those who didn’t know your loved one but who Love You. There’s a difference between death and grief. Death is an experience of life, grief is...

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24 Jun
0

Death is an Experience

When death happens we often associate it with an emotion, but death is actually an experience. An experience that will happen to each of us. An experience that is apart of living, and an experience that is the inevitable. To accept life, you have to accept that death will happen to you. Fact is, we live to die. Every day you continue to live you are actually dying.  Every death is a different experience. A death from sickness allows you to...

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24 Jun
1

A Mother’s Pain

My son was killed in an ambush on Churchill Ave in Somerset, NJ by 5 black teenage men on December 31, 2019. There were shots in the double digits but only 2 hit him. The bullets killed him immediately.  Read that again… The pain I have to live with daily is a pain no other mother should bear. The things I didn’t sign up for as a MOTHER. Things that nobody who hasn’t experienced this could understand… I can no longer see my son, I...

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22 Jun
1

Wear Orange Speech June 2023

Greetings everyone Good Morning! As you know my name is Kim Banks and I’m the mother of Samaad Frazier. He lost his life at 19 years old to gun violence on December 31, 2019 on Churchill Ave here in Somerset. He was visiting a friend, He was not a gang member or involved in gang activity, he was just at the wrong place at wrong the time.  Life has become so invaluable these days and Gun violence has become so prevalent...

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22 Jun
0

Wear Orange Speech June 2022

I wear orange for my son Samaad Zaire Frazier.  He was gunned down on Churchill Ave in Somerset on Dec 31 2019 by 5 young men who knew and went to school with him.  He was 19 years old and a 2018 graduate of FHS and an elite basketball player.  His death was 1 of 3 that year in Somerset.  He was preceded by the deaths of Dominic Frederick on May 25 and Monserrat Noyola-Narvaez on October 29.  it’s been a difficult journey of healing...

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21 May
0

August 4th

And If I just pause for a moment,  If I shut my eyes,  I can still smell the scent on your shirt when you hugged me.  I can still see the smile on your face too.  I always wondered how you would look when you got your braces taken off.  That’s all there is for me to do now,  Wonder.  (For Samaad Frazier 06/21/2000-12/31/2019) By Amira Mustapha  “Samaad and I were classmates; met him through mutual friends. Every time Samaad saw me, he always greeted me with kindness!! In...

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25 Jul
1

Dear Samaad,

Who would have ever thought we would end up here?  Me alive and you dead at 19. You had more life to live, so much more to accomplish. You were special, never had to study, an all around athlete, but shined in basketball just like your grandfather.   I often ask WHY! WHY YOU? WHY ME? WHY OUR FAMILY? When I got the news you were shot I knew then you were gone for some reason. While in route to the hospital I...

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16 Mar
2

Dear Killers….

It took FIVE of you to kill my son  Little did you know his destiny was already WON From this pain we will live in his HONOR I know you must have to PONDER As to why you made his name bigger than YONDER You took his LIFE that was all you did Now you’re in jail looking like a piece of SHIT Until the day we die we will SPEAK HIS NAME Too bad for you, you will die in SHAME  You turned up a VILLAIN in FivesUpRoddy That’s...

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23 Nov
4

First Annual Youth Over Guns Walk 9/5/20

Samaad was buried on Saturday January 11, 2020. By Monday morning Coach Audrey Taylor was at my house with encouraging words on our next steps. “We cannot let his name die sis.” “We have to keep his legacy going.” I agreed but did not have a direction at the time. I thought long and hard of the many ways we could move forward with her plan, which now became my mission. The Samaad Z Frazier Youth Over Guns Walk was created...

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