Black People : Derrion Albert - 16 Yr Old - Killed by His Own People

There's A Difference Between A Need And A Want-!

We need to be forgiving (if not forgetting) how even some of our own dare to claim:

"That's not the way my kids are (as though none of 'their' kids ever make mistakes)..."

We also need to get down off of our podiums (where some just preach at our people), then exibit more empathy and sympathy for how some 'just plain folks' feel as well as think about this ongoing mayhem/violence/ad naseum in their midst too...

Also if our veteran self proclaimed leaders and/or various black elected officials are just going to make noise and not truly help to make a difference:

Later for them too!

Simply put (but difficult--if not possible to bring about--in times like these):

One and all, it's long overdue for folks--like us--in black communities all thruout this nation--to get back to the grassroots activism etc.--which made the Jesse Jacksons and the Obama's who they claim or say they are--though maybe aren't--i. e., create new organizations etc. from which will come another peoples agenda and/or usher in new leaders...
 
....Fenger students said Albert's death intensified tensions at the school, with arguments about him breaking out in hallways all day Monday. Several blocks away, a memorial erected on the spot where he was beaten was burned down. Police also increased patrols before and after school and in the neighborhood.

"They're still trying to retaliate," said sophomore Toni Gardner, 15. She did not elaborate.

For Chicago, a sharp rise in violent student deaths during the past three school years -- most from shootings off school property -- have been a tragedy and an embarrassment.

Before 2006, an average of 10-15 students were fatally shot each year. That climbed to 24 fatal shootings in the 2006-07 school year, 23 deaths and 211 shootings in the 2007-08 school year and 34 deaths and 290 shootings last school year.

At a Monday vigil at the school, some community members said the solution lies with parents.

"It is our problem. We have to take control of our children," said Dawn Allen, who attended the vigil where a group of residents tried to force their way into the school before being turned back by police.


This month, the city announced a $30 million project that targets 1,200 high school pupils identified as most at risk to become victims of gun violence, giving them full-time mentors and part-time jobs to keep them off the streets. Some money also will pay for more security guards and to provide safe passage for students forced to travel through areas with active street gangs.
Albert's family attended a news conference Monday with school district leaders and police, but did not speak. They wore T-shirts with a picture of him in a cap and gown, with the words, "Gone too soon, too young."

But Annette Holt, mother of Blair Holt, a Chicago Public Schools student who was shot on a city bus two years ago, said Albert represented "another promising future, just snuffed out because of violence."

"Someone said he (Derrion) was in the wrong place at the wrong time," she said. "No, he wasn't. He was in the right place. He was coming from school."


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/27/beating-death-of-derrien_n_301319.html
 
Again I hate to have to say and write the obvious...

Though somebody has to...

As in:

Allies seek to free you...

Enemies seek to enslave you...

I. e., yesterdays hankerchief wearing nizzas will one day be among the three piece suit wearing house kneegrow variety, anyway!

Just different means/the same ends...

It was and is about the humanity vs the inhumanity:

Being of the same ethnic/racial background as a basis to decide who is for or against us isn't good enough anymore!

Perhaps it never was!
 
Again I hate to have to say and write the obvious...

Though somebody has to...

As in:

Allies seek to free you...

Enemies seek to enslave you...

I. e., yesterdays hankerchief wearing nizzas will one day be among the three piece suit wearing house kneegrow variety, anyway!

Just different means/the same ends...

It was and is about the humanity vs the inhumanity:

Being of the same ethnic/racial background as a basis to decide who is for or against us isn't good enough anymore!

Perhaps it never was!
sadly true

that fuzzy ethics
and values

have their expression made known

in the macrocosm

as well as the microcosm,

in the Global Black community
 

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