Tears and Carnage in the Windy City
The whole nation is shaking its head after that horrible mob beating that took place in Chicago last week. Of course, this isn’t the first time that something like this has happened. This tragic murder just so happened to be caught on tape. ( If you haven’t seen it…Google it, because I refuse to post it.)
Check out the blog below from my home girl Ebony. We gotta do something about this ya’ll.
>SEPTEMBER HAS BLOWN IN A “LORD OF THE FLIES” FEEL TO THE WINDY CITY.
Fresh off of a school year which boasted 500 shootings committed against Chicago Public School students this recent melee in the streets of Chicago stands boldly as a testament to the EMERGENCY the Children of Chicago are going through! This past Thursday while walking home from school, while passing a Community Center, 16-year-old Derrion Albert, a student at Fenger High School, was beaten to death (again was BEAT TO DEATH) by a MOB of school aged children in a street melee that wasn’t gang related. This was a case of school tension boiling over into after school brutality and bloodshed!
more after the jump
Within the City, actually within a tightly packed 15 square block area, there is a ruthless concentration of violence perpetrated on the young by the hands of other young people! Here the danger zone is not simply a vicinity, more specifically it is an area and an age group, where the main target are teenagers. And it is not an understatement to declare that if the amount of suffering is immeasurable! It flows from all corners, from each building…there is not a family, school, church untouched by its cruelty or bound by faith enough to not be struck by its harshness.
The agile spirit will adapt; and here the tragedy lays, in the unmistakable absence of outrage! Yes, there are pockets of people braving their tongues to the streets. They stand on the spot of the Windy’s freshest slaughter with their fragile signs and heartfelt screams. And those soldiers do need to be commended for resisting the temptation to do NOTHING. But the old ways of reaching out just aren’t making noise and have left us all def and dumb and NO DOUBT blind to the butchery! The safety we fail to promise or meet! (LET US NOTE THAT THIS IS BY NO MEANS AN EXCLUSIVE CHICAGO PROBLEM.)
The day for new IDEAS has past approached, it is upon us and what lays between life and death for our children is our ingenuity. Chicago’s greatness it seems all pretty silly when standing in the shadow of the praise are the riddled corpses of the city’s youngest potential benefactors to the Olympics.
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http://thishappenseveryday.blogspot.com/
