By Laura Flynn, KALW Crosscurrents
Deafening gunshots rang out just as James Martin arrived home. Troubled by the news of a 17-year-old young man dying in front of his house, he did what anyone would do – actually what most wouldn’t do. He grabbed his portable karaoke machine and stood at the sidewalk memorial erected for the young man and began singing, “Wake up everybody, no more sleeping in bed, no more backward thinking time for thinking ahead.”
That was 10 years ago. Today, Martin is still standing up for San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood. Recently, he called on fathers in the neighborhood to walk their children to school. Standing in front of a group of about 40 people on a megaphone, Martin explained: “We’re here in commitment to our children and we’re here in commitment to our community.”
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