Want to know what is really taking place then maybe some of these news channel should talk to teens like us who are in the mist of it all. Chicago teens were recently seen "going wild" on Chicago's prized Magnificent Mile Saturday March 30, 2013. Reports were made to the public:
The Chicago Sun-Times reported
a “melee” erupted along the famous Magnificent Mile shopping district
and that a group of women were attacked on a city transit bus.
CBS Chicago WBBM-TV
reported many innocent tourists and shoppers were caught in the middle
of the chaos of teenagers purposely bumping into each other and starting
fights among themselves.
“You had a group of teens, close to
maybe 500. They assaulted a Chicago police officer that was on a mounted
on a horse and all of a sudden they assaulted a citizen walking the
streets, just a normal citizen shopping and enjoying the weather,”
community activist Andrew Holmes told WBBM.
They make it sound so bad and they make horrible racist remarks about us but if you honestly look at it - we don't have anyplace to go. Social media is a big issue, I'm not going to lie, due to our bordem and our lack of place to go when we have free time beside where adults think we should go... I'm sorry, the library is not fun. Sometimes you want to hang with your friends and when there are a lot of people we teens seem to have the most fun. I mean I know violence and bad things happen at the Bud Billiken Parade but that is one of the only times the city allows us to congregate any other time they are arresting us. I got off subject for a minute of why this all happened but now I'll tell you... Twitter and Facebook is how this happened.
Within different group chats on Twitter and Facebook conversations began between two groups of friends that have titled themselves by names - I wouldn't call them gangs because I'm apart of a team and we like to throw and promote parties, so more like unofficial fraternities and I guess sororities.
The two groups HitSquad and Obeyy were talking about fighting one another over which team is better - this is probably where it gets out of hand. So through word of mouth and having nothing else better to do, the word of going Downtown on a specific date and time began spreading fast. Once all the teens, approximately 500 teens, met Downtown - that is what led to mob action and when people started to get arrested that is what led to more mob action - 28 teens were arrested by police enforcement. Also 11 teenagers where arrested for attacking a senior citizen on the CTA train - YES, its getting even worse in Chicago.
I speak for many, if you keep telling us there is no money and our parents are broke and we cant afford to do what the others can and everything free is educational. If some are already not doing well in school and has to take tutoring and everything else, don't you think that student want a break or an outlet. Where is our outlet, we can't find it on our own because our environment doesn't have (m)any. They say were dumb so we only get the education "fun" and not the lets do something we like and learn from that. That's why I like Dime Child because it focuses on what we want to do, they understand us as young black kids and they help us learn how to do things and be a better us, without making us feel stupid. Chicago should give Dime Child all the money and I bet they would have way more black kids doing something positive like us. #MUSTREAD!!!
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