Chicago Beating
The graphic video of 16-year-old Derrion Albert being beaten to death in an after-school melee has raised alarm across the country.
“What happened to Derrion is barbaric, it was barbaric,” anti-violence advocate Diane Latiker said.
Each of the last three years has witnessed a classroom of children getting killed. 500 children were injured by gunshots in 2008 alone.
“There’s a lot of frustration and there’s a lot of pain right now – there should be,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in Chicago after meeting with students and parents from a neighborhood where Albert was beaten to death last month.
The value of life has gone down, and many of our young people have lost faith in the future. Many youth grow up believing that their life is not worth anything – and neither is anyone else’s life. It’s very difficult to work for a positive future when you don’t think you will live past the age of 18.
The quality of our future is at serious risk because children are fearful they can’t learn, and when children don’t get a quality education, we won’t have a bright future.
This is about our values as a country and as a society.
October 26, 2009 at 7:53 pm
The first part of your post is fine, then you get into a rant in the final two paragraphs. Avoid that at all costs! Good poll, but give me a picture and some links.