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Derrion Albert; it starts with me, it's starts with you
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A mother lost her child, family members lost their kin, friends lost their buddy, and for what, over a rival gang fight between high school students. Derrion Albert lost his life due to the senseless violence on the mean streets of Chicago, but why is his story not uncommon and becoming increasingly more accepted.
The horrific video of the attack will make you nauseous – sick to your stomach --to watch young men behave like animals was heartwrenching for me. The young men had a mob mentality; there was absolutely no regard for human life whatsoever. Never mind that Derrion was an honor student, forget that he himself was not involved or affiliated with any gang. It does not matter that he was an innocent bystander because no one deserves to die in the street like a dog. No one deserves what happened to Derrion and what will happen to many more young men if no one is willing to stand up and reclaims our streets from this destruction.
The culture of violence that we have long accepted locally and globally will continue to claim the lives of innocent men and women until we mount a movement to stop it. A close friend who lives in Chicago said just last week 4 teens were killed in Chicago, only one of those murders is being highlighted in the news because it was taped and added to youtube causing a national stir. But what about the other 3 teens, what about the countless others who are murdered in all the major cities across America. Where is their justice?
Next week Derrion will be old news, there will be something new to sensationalize. Maybe Michael Jackson’s zookeeper at Neverland Ranch will come forth with some strange tale and every night we will be inundated with that nonsense instead of information on how to help combat the woes of our neighborhoods.
This culture of violence is not a black or white thing. It’s a human thing, a human problem because for some reason we have degenerated to a point where human life is expendable.
Watch the video of young Derrion Brown losing his life. I hope it makes you mad, I hope it makes you sick to your stomach, because just maybe that anger you feel. The resentment you feel for these senseless acts of violence, and the compassion you will gain for his mother who you know had to endure watching this same video of her son who is no longer on this earth. Just maybe that anger, that hurt will prompt you to do something. Maybe it will make you mad enough, where you say enough is enough, and you decide to organize against youth violence. Derrion deserves more than to die in vain, allow his death to be the straw that breaks your back that is filled with complacency and indifference to the atrocities going on across our country.
Today it’s Derrion, tomorrow very well could be your son, your nephew, your brother, your cousin, your friend. Get involved; act now before it’s too late. Make It Happen.
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