Posted on 10/06/2009 3:25:19 AM PDT by Scanian
On Thursday, September 24th, after an apparently productive day at Fengler High School in Chicago, Derrion Albert, a black 16 year old honor student was knocked to the ground by a blow to the head with a railroad tie. He was then punched, kicked and stomped. Those who responded to rescue him were too late.
Derrion had walked into the middle of a fight between two rival black gangs. He attempted to help one of the victims in the melee and was killed for his trouble. This took place in Barack Obama's Chicago. All his work for "social justice" did a great deal for Obama, but it did nothing for Derrion Albert. Of course the President is not responsible for this tragedy, but it does expose the fatuous claim that such occurrences are the result of social injustice rather than the personal choice to engage in lawless behavior. The ghettos, drugs, gangs and violence are on display for all to see in spite of Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Acorn and all the community organizing.
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So sad and so true.
Because there is no money in screaming about black-on-black crime. It also takes away from the illusion that all crime is white-on-black.
Add the media being terrified by being accused of being racist.
You know, I hate to see this kid get killed, but I have to ask one question. WAS THIS KID NOT SMART ENOUGH TO STAY THE HELL OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF A GANG FIGHT IN PROGRESS? I saw the tape, there was NO WAY anybody in their right mind would have just walked into that melee. This Derrion should have at least been smart enough to turn around and RUN the other way.
Great article. Makes my blood boil every time I think of Jesse Jackson and Sharpton, Maxine Waters, etc., showing up like clockwork to rail against whites when some poor black soul is murdered. They have a sales pitch that’s made them fat and rich, why change? If blacks die it’s whitey’s fault no matter what the truth is. Some blacks think this is funny and secretly applaud Jackson. Liberals of every ilk buy it because it fits their mantra, but every once in a while something dreadful happens right in front of God and all the people like this young man’s vicious murder and a great silence descends.
No doubt they all showed up at his funeral. Pomp and ceremony, wired flowers and a young life lost forever. They line their pockets and leave town until the next opportunity for self aggrandizement.
Crime comitted by (some) blacks in general.
So long as the majority of black children are born out of wedlock to a single parent and not knowing who their father even is may have something to do with black kids troubles.
Then there is that don’t do well in school you uncle tom deal.
Why are there black ghetto’s in this country?
Blame it on whitey.
When these people moved into the neighborhood Whites moved out. It started long ago when real estate agents started busting blocks, and it still goes on today as HUD moves in with section 8.
First there is one nice black couple trying to find a better place for their kids, then follows the exodus, as more and more black couples come in, and they are looking to find a decent place for their kids, but it turns out their kids ARE the problem, and soon enough of the problems arrive to where everyone has either got to go or live in this mess. Enter the ghetto.
Most places where these criminals live were once fine decent communities.
I thought Midnight Basketball put an end to all of this kind of crime. Our “first” black President fixed it all.
Right on the money. The young man who was killed could easily have been killed for acting “too white”.
From the top rungs of black society to the bottom, they glorify the thugs who walk around with a bandana on their head, the hat askew on top of that, the baggy pants and so on. Role models like Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas are unknown to many of them.
Even this POS President has his hip-hop and rap trash (such as Ludacris) he purports to enjoy. What an ass.
I have lived across the street from a black family who moved in five or six years ago after the elderly couple moved out. The mother seems very nice, but there is no father, and she has difficulty controlling the family of boys. There are at least five of them, spanning from about twenty years old down to probably four.
The oldest one is trouble. At seventeen he was arrested for breaking into the next house over, an elderly couple. The woman walked into her bathroom and he was in there. He bolted and she called the police, he disappeared (probably to jail) and only recently we have seen him hanging around again.
The next two seem like nice kids, but as they made the transition into adolescence, their appearance changed. They walk around wearing the baggy pants with the hood over their head so you can’t see their face.
The sad thing is watching these kids make the progression in to adolescence. They go from normal appearing kids riding bikes to emulation of a hip-hop or rap culture that isn’t good for anyone to emulate.
I feel bad for them, because as I watched them grow and make the transition, I had the feeling they were screwed from the start. I’ve talked with their mom, and she seems very nice and works hard, but...to raise the kids without a father is more than she can handle.
And you have “role models” for them like Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Ludacris...the list goes on. It is sad. Everything works against them to funnel them into the sphere of influence of Ludacris rather than Thomas Sowell.
If there was money to be made they wouldn’t ignore it.
Yeah,
Midnight basket ball.
American black children, the real lost generations
spot on good article
I’ve got news for you .. They also ignore Black on White Crime too!
Great job!
Finally someone on FR has the guts to put the blame squarely where it belongs, on the victim!
Dude, get a clue. He was killed because he tried to help a wounded person in a warzone. If he’d been in Afghanistan he would have got a medal.
The liberal cities are filled with cowards and most are men.
They refuse to acknowledge the children they produce, refuse to support and raise their children, refuse to marry the women and, most telling, refuse to defend their children and neighborhoods from thugs.
All you people needlessly worried about king obuma’s so- called “army,” there’s nothing to concern yourself over. You can’t build an “army” from cowards.
I disagree. All of the black race-baiters and exploiters share a part in this travesty.
They continue to promote the belief that blacks are powerless to improve their lot and will remain victims as long as a single white man or woman lives.
Racists like the pResident preach hatred and victimology and make a very nice living, doing so.
His actions point out that the best and brightest are being killed off by the lowest common denominator.
Actually, I think they pay attention to it as their power depends on conditions that spawned the problems.
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