16-YEAR-OLD DERRION ALBERT, A STUDENT AT FENGER HIGH SCHOOL, WAS BEATEN TO DEATH BY A GROUP OF OTHER YOUTHS THURSDAY, SEPT. 24, 2009 IN A VACANT LOT NEXT TO A COMMUNITY CENTER IN CHICAGO'S ROSELAND COMMUNITY. WITNESSES SAY ALBERT, AN HONOR ROLL STUDENT, GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE MELEE WAS A CULMINATION OF A SIMMERING RIVALRY BETWEEN TWO GROUPS OF FENGER STUDENTS, ONE THAT LIVED NEAR THE SCHOOL AND THE OTHER FROM THE ALTGELD GARDENS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. --THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE*
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WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS THE VARIOUS THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS THAT RAN THROUGH MY HEAD WHEN THIS NEWS WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO ME, NOR CAN THEY EXPRESS THE WAY I FELT WHEN I SAW DERRION'S MOTHER ON CNN ATTEMPTING TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS DURING HER INTERVIEW BUT COULDN'T BECAUSE HER EYES WERE FULL OF TEARS, AND SHE COULD BARELY GET HER WORDS OUT BECAUSE SHE WAS TRYING TO AVOID CRYING ON CAMERA. THE ACTS THAT OCCURRED THAT DAY WERE NOTHING BUT PURE IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY. IT DID NOTHING BUT PUT FUEL TO THE FIRE TOWARDS THE STEREOTYPE AGAINST AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND SHOW AMERICA HOW MUCH HUMANS DON'T VALUE THE LIFE OF OTHERS. THERE IS NO REASON ON THIS EARTH WHY DERRION SHOULD NOT BE AT HOME WITH HIS MOTHER, BUT BECAUSE SOME HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS FIGURED THEIR IMMATURE RIVALRY WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE LIFE OF DERRION, HE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO COME HOME TO HIS MOTHER AGAIN. WHAT BOTHERS ME THE MOST IS SEEING THAT HORRIBLE VIDEO, THEY BEAT HIM LIKE THERE WAS NO TOMORROW, AND AS SOON AS THERE WAS A SIGN THAT DERRION WAS NO LONGER MOVING THEY SKATED LIKE A BUNCH OF RATS, THAT AMERICA IS WHAT YOU CALL A BUNCH OF COWARDS, AND I AM A FIRM BELIEVER IN KARMA. TRUST, EACH AND EVERY PERSON THAT WAS INVOLVED IN THE BEATING WILL SOON GET WHAT THEY GOT COMING TO THEM. I HOPE THAT AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE YOUNG MEN WILL OWN UP AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS, OR MAY THEIR GUILT EAT THEM ALIVE. I DO NOT KNOW DERRION OR HIS FAMILY PERSONALLY, BUT I DO SEND ALL OF MY CONDOLENCES TO THE ALBERT FAMILY, AND I TRULY DO HOPE THAT DERRION RESTS IN PEACE.
*KbradHeFresh
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