Yesterday, in an act of protest, students living in Chicago‘s Gardens neighborhood who attend Fenger High (the high school that slain teenager Darrion Alberts atteneded) stayed home from school. With the support of their parents, the teenagers are protesting conditions by staying home and boycotting the violence they have to face to get an education. More after the jump.
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
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