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Minority Youngsters Dying Weekly On Chicago's Streets
Fri May 8, 2009
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- The Rev. Michael Pfleger has ordered the American flag at St. Sabina Church hung upside-down -- a historic sign of distress -- to symbolize the growing death toll among the city's youngsters.
1 of 3 So far this school year, 36 children and teens have been murdered -- more than one a week -- and Pfleger is among a chorus of weary Chicagoans who say the slayings aren't getting the attention they deserve.
Had 36 kids died of swine flu this year, "there would be this great influx of resources that say, 'Let's stop this, lets deal with this,' " Pfleger said.
Instead, because violence is driving the epidemic, "We're hiding it. We're ignoring it. We're denying the problems," he said.
Pfleger is not the first Chicagoan to express the sentiment. In 2007, after the city recorded 31 murdered children during the school year, Arne Duncan, then-CEO of public schools, expressed similar disappointment. Watch why the violence seems worse now »
Duncan, who now serves as President Obama's secretary of education, said "all hell would break loose" if these killings took place in one of the metro area's upscale enclaves.
"If that happened to one of Chicago's wealthiest suburbs -- and God forbid it ever did -- if it was a child being shot dead every two weeks in Hinsdale or Winnetka or Barrington, do you think the status quo would remain? There's no way it would," he said.
Asked who was failing the kids -- police? schools? city officials? -- she replied flatly, "We all are."
Officials say slayings ignored because victims are minorities.
Minority youngsters dying weekly on Chicago's streets - CNN.com
Here is the video:
Minority youngsters dying weekly on Chicago's streets - CNN.com
Looks like Obama is not having the influence that so many white Obama voters had hope for.
So why do "minoritys" blame America for there barbaric behaviour?
The fact is "minoritys" kill, rape, rob, and violently assault each other in there homelands at a far greated rate then they do in America.
How are "Americans" not supposed to feel superiour when they witness this "minority" behaviour?
Fri May 8, 2009
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- The Rev. Michael Pfleger has ordered the American flag at St. Sabina Church hung upside-down -- a historic sign of distress -- to symbolize the growing death toll among the city's youngsters.
1 of 3 So far this school year, 36 children and teens have been murdered -- more than one a week -- and Pfleger is among a chorus of weary Chicagoans who say the slayings aren't getting the attention they deserve.
Had 36 kids died of swine flu this year, "there would be this great influx of resources that say, 'Let's stop this, lets deal with this,' " Pfleger said.
Instead, because violence is driving the epidemic, "We're hiding it. We're ignoring it. We're denying the problems," he said.
Pfleger is not the first Chicagoan to express the sentiment. In 2007, after the city recorded 31 murdered children during the school year, Arne Duncan, then-CEO of public schools, expressed similar disappointment. Watch why the violence seems worse now »
Duncan, who now serves as President Obama's secretary of education, said "all hell would break loose" if these killings took place in one of the metro area's upscale enclaves.
"If that happened to one of Chicago's wealthiest suburbs -- and God forbid it ever did -- if it was a child being shot dead every two weeks in Hinsdale or Winnetka or Barrington, do you think the status quo would remain? There's no way it would," he said.
Asked who was failing the kids -- police? schools? city officials? -- she replied flatly, "We all are."
Officials say slayings ignored because victims are minorities.
Minority youngsters dying weekly on Chicago's streets - CNN.com
Here is the video:
Minority youngsters dying weekly on Chicago's streets - CNN.com
Looks like Obama is not having the influence that so many white Obama voters had hope for.
So why do "minoritys" blame America for there barbaric behaviour?
The fact is "minoritys" kill, rape, rob, and violently assault each other in there homelands at a far greated rate then they do in America.
How are "Americans" not supposed to feel superiour when they witness this "minority" behaviour?
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